Quotes About Terror

We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear.

When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.

It is what we fear that happens to us.

I'm also fascinated by the difference between terror and fear. Fear says, "Do not actually put your hand in the alligator," while terror says, "Avoid Florida entirely because alligators exist.

This is the century of fear.

Fear is cruel and mean.

... we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.

In terms of fear, I still am most afraid of Freddie Kruger.

It is fear that I stand most in fear of, in sharpness it exceeds every other feeling.

Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

Every fear, every night terror, every hour I cried for Liev, every fight with Sebastian is registered as a neat white scar.

And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face of a noble object.

There's also something sexual about watching the nubile girl in terror. But you do take on her fear as your own.

I believe you can frighten people without showing their heads caved-in.

It isn't only the terror everywhere, and the fear of being conscious of it, that freezes people. It's more than that. People know they are in a society dead or dying.

Fear is sweat, but terror is addictive.

It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.

There is no worse emotion than fear.

So let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless unreasoning unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.

Democracy doesn't mean spreading terror.

The one thing we all always seem to live in is FEAR.

I really think the war on terror is a bunch of bullsh... Just a poor excuse for you to use up all your bullets.

linked all of a sudden to places from which I had thought it quite distinct, lost its mystery and took up its place in the region, leading me to reflect in terror that Mme Bovary and La Sanseverina9 would perhaps have struck me as creatures like any other had I come across them anywhere except in the enclosed atmosphere of a novel.

That was the thing about terror: it made rational people act irrationally.