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Quotes About Panic

I shake with seizure hysterics panic, I'm moving on all my limbs through bullets dying blood and pain they don't stop they run in among each other killing firing their rifles not a foot away from each other shooting as they are shot all eyes white, white, white.
~ Unknown
We took space back quickly, expensively, with total panic and close to maximum brutality. Our machine was devastating. And versatile. It could do everything but stop.
~ Michael Herr
calling the nightmare
~ Michael Scott
What are you scared of?" he asked me. I sighed really deeply, like it was totally hard for me to let my feelings out. "Everything," I told him. "I'm scared of everything.
~ Michael Thomas Ford
Specific terrors.
~ Michel Onfray
Narcissistic individuals, who are mainly concerned with protecting their self, fall apart when the external conditions turn threatening. The ensuing panic prevents them from doing what they must do; their attention turns inward in an effort to restore order in consciousness, and not enough remains to negotiate outside reality.
~ Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
What? I have a cold. Don't get a look of terror on your face. The worst that could happen is that you'll get a cold, too. You don't have to theatrically Purell a thousand times a day and look all panicky every time I come into the room.
~ Mindy Kaling
A few days after I left UConn my mom took me to a psychiatrist in Stamford. After talking with me for an hour, smiling kindly and calmly asking me questions, he diagnosed me. "You have an anxiety disorder," he said. "It's a rare and very unpleasant type called 'plateau panic disorder.' Basically you're having panic attacks that don't ever end.
~ Moby
Panic threatened but was beaten into submission by her will to live. Elena P. Deveraux had never given up yet.
~ Nalini Singh
Jonah's breath came fast and shallow. I reached for his hand. He turned his face to me, his eyes wide with panic. Two frozen ponds. A boy screamed and pounded on the surface, trapped under the ice. Panicking. Trying to break through. But his screams faded, his fists flailed, and he slipped away into the dark. The boy was gone. Nothing left but the ice, clear and smooth enough to skate on.
~ Unknown
Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.
~ Neal Shusterman
Panic---a deep abiding, free-floating anxiety, often without any reason or logical basis.
~ Nelson DeMille
The worst thing about fear is what it does to you when you try to hide it.
~ Unknown
My breath came in panicked gulps. Memories of the image at the bottom of the cistern forced themselves into my head. The open mouth, the clawing hands, the flailing feet . . . I wrapped one arm around the railing and shrank against the wall. "Brad!" He
~ Unknown
Fear is more contagious than the plague and is instantly communicated.
~ Nikolai Gogol
What was that you gave me to eat?" Winter panicked. A Filler Crisp," Clover said, his eyes seventy percent concerned and thirty percent mischievous.
~ Obert Skye
Clover] secretly hitched a ride with a nice German couple and their new baby...Clover appeared to the baby, so as to be a delightful, soothing surprise. Well, the child did like Clover. In fact, she held him and cooed. When the parents turned around to look at her and saw their child holding a furry, living creature, they needlessly panicked.
~ Obert Skye
I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.
~ Oliver Stone
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic…. The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.
~ Unknown
The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.
~ Oswald Chambers
It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we see the activity and mistake panic for inspiration. That is why we see so few fellow workers with God, yet so many people working for God. We would much rather work for God than believe in Him. Do I really believe that God will do in me what I cannot do?
~ Oswald Chambers
The clearest evidence that God's grace is at work in our hearts is that we do not get into panics.
~ Oswald Chambers
Peg was involved in a common form of senior-year panic that caused its victims to exhibit permanent distraction and to take up residence in the library.
~ Pamela Dean
The obsession with security at any price petrifies us, and we increase our fear by trying to eliminate risk. That is what is ridiculous about the great outcries in the media: we wake up in order to demand more passivity, a better protected life. The challenge is not only to decrease the amount of space the media devote to hazards but also to increase our ability to resist misfortunes. To augment our endurance rather than our panic.
~ Pascal Bruckner