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Quotes About Panic

Prayer is to assure you of your connection with Home, much as when you were children and you left for the day. There was that moment of panic— I'm sure you remember it— when you had to call home just to be sure that it was still there. Prayer is like that. It is calling Home.
~ Pat Rodegast
First of all, one is either a panicker or one isn't, and the occasion of being lost is no time to start fretting about a flaw in one's character. My own theory holds that it is best, if one is a panicker, to get the panic out of the system as quickly as possible
~ Unknown
And then I hear the terrible, terrible scream that of course is the girl getting caught and that's the choice made, ain't it?
~ Patrick Ness
She felt the panic rising in her then. She knew. She knew how quickly things could break. You did the things you could. You tended to the world for the world's sake. You hoped you would be safe. But still she knew. It could come crashing down and there was nothing you could do. And yes, she knew she wasn't right. She knew her everything was canted wrong. She knew her head was all unkilter. She knew she wasn't true inside. She knew.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
She felt the panic rising in her then. She knew. She knew how quickly things could break. You did the things you could. You tended to the world for the world's sake. You hoped you would be safe. But still she knew. It would come crashing down and there was nothing you could do right. And yes. She knew she wasn't right. She knew her everything canted wrong. She knew her head was all unkilter. She knew she wasn't true inside. She knew.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
When you're alone, it's easy to be afraid. It's easy to focus on what might be lurking in the dark at the bottom of the cellar steps. It's easy to obsess on unproductive things, like the madness of stepping into a storm of spinning knives. When you're alone it's easy to sweat, panic, fall apart …
~ Patrick Rothfuss
When you're alone, it's easy to be afraid. It's easy to focus on what might be lurking in the dark at the bottom of the cellar steps. It's easy to obsess on unproductive things, like the madness of stepping into a storm of spinning knives. When you're alone it's easy to sweat, panic, fall apart … But I wasn't alone.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
When you're alone, it's easy to be afraid. It's easy to focus on what might be lurking in the dark at the bottom of the cellar steps. It's easy to obsess on unproductive things, like the madness of stepping into a storm of spinning knives. When you're alone it's easy to sweat, panic, fall apart … But
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Taxin kommer för snabbt och jag inser att jag inte har valt ut några böcker. Tanken på att stiga ombord på ett flygplan utan bok ger mig panik. Rätt bok kan vara ett slags guide, något som sätter tonen för resan eller till och med får den att byta riktning.
~ Patti Smith
In the interim, in the void between the moment he opens the door and the moment he begins to reconquer the emptiness, his mind flails in a wordless panic. It is as if he were being forced to watch his own disappearance, as if, by crossing the threshold of his room, he were entering another dimension, taking up residence inside a black hole.
~ Paul Auster
I'm nervous. Don't be nervous, Archie. I'm about to shit in my pants. Don't do that either.
~ Paul Auster
He seemed to get the most out of doctors who didn't feel as he did. Who were calm when he was anxious. Confident when he was uncertain." "His calmness didn't make me feel abandoned, it made me feel secure. I wanted to look at him and see the opposite of my fear, not it's echo." "I would prefer that those who care about me greet my panic with calm, and my gloom with good cheer.
~ Paul Bloom
in these moments of challenge the people of God would panic because they were identity amnesiacs. They would forget who they were as the children of God and they would forget who God is in all his almighty power and glory.
~ Paul David Tripp
even though there is very little that we know for sure about our lives and we experience constant surprises along the way, we need not give way to panic. Yes, our lives are out of our control, but that doesn't mean they are out of control. No, our lives are under the careful administration of the One who had the wisdom and power to be the great Author of it all.
~ Paul David Tripp
There's another element in the euro crisis, another weakness of a shared currency, that took many people, myself included, by surprise. It turns out that countries that lack their own currency are highly vulnerable to self-fulfilling panic, in which the efforts of investors to avoid losses from default end up triggering the very default they fear.
~ Paul Krugman
If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.
~ Paul Lynde
I asked why didn't the President of the USA inform the public of this incident and I was told it was because of Religion and possible panic amongst Americans and other citizens around the world.
~ Unknown
This could be a dream,' Phase II said, 'Not one that wakes you up in a panic, but one that makes you never want to wake up at all
~ Unknown
Hitting is never the best way to teach a child. Even in the case of real danger - as when a child runs out into the road - you can grab him, sit him down, look him in the eyes, and tell him why he must never do that again. The panic in your voice will communicate your message much more effectively than any spanking. You can be dramatic without being abusive.
~ Unknown
Then terror struck the Philistines in the camp, in the field, and among all the people. Even those in the outposts and raiding parties trembled. Indeed, the earth quaked and panic spread from God.
~ 1 Samuel 14:15
I will attack him while he is weak and weary; I will throw him into a panic, and all the people with him will flee; I will strike down only the king
~ 2 Samuel 17:2
Whoever flees the sound of panic will fall into the pit, and whoever climbs from the pit will be caught in the snare. For the windows of heaven are open, and the foundations of the earth are shaken.
~ Isaiah 24:18
Their rock will pass away for fear, and their princes will panic at the sight of the battle standard,” declares the LORD, whose fire is in Zion, whose furnace is in Jerusalem.
~ Isaiah 31:9
Yes, this is what the LORD says: “A cry of panic is heard—a cry of terror, not of peace.
~ Jeremiah 30:5