Quotes About Fear

Death is terrifying because it is so ordinary. It happens all the time.

The key word for my book The Woman in Black is unsettling... because you're not terrified all of the time or even frightened, but you're unsettled and once you're unsettled, then the door's open.

I get nervous every time, for every single performance, before getting up on that stage.

Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time.

The unique idea of [The Darkest Time] movie is because in usual if you are in darkness, you are scared. But this movie is the opposite. In darkness, you are okay.

'Buried Alive' is a little scary, but also a comedy at the same time.

There was a period of time in Los Angeles when I wondered if I was just going to lose everything.

For a long time, I couldn't actually deal with playing concerts, it was a totally alien concept to me, 'cos I was used to playing in clubs and dance halls.

People always worry that buying tech products today carries a risk of obsolescence. Most of the time, that fear is overblown.

The best time to cry is at night, when the lights are out and someone is being beaten up and screaming for help.

For deadly fear can time outgo, and blanch at once the hair.

Ruin has taught me to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death, which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose.

Our fears are an amazing gift of the imagination, a kind of everyday clairvoyance, a way of glimpsing what might be the future when there's still time to influence how that future will play out.

The time for debilitating fear is before and after the mission.

I have a very hard time picturing myself in a room with some type of goo oozing out of an air vent and killing me; that doesn't really scare me because I don't think that's going to happen to me.

I just really am trying, trying, all the time. But I like to be scared. I love to suddenly feel out of control.

When you spend all your time worrying that the devil is right behind you, eventually you start seeing him whether he's there or not.

They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end. For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie.

Tell me everything, I would say. All about the blues, and the time your heart was broken, and what scares you the most, and the thing you've always wanted to do but haven 't yet.

When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference.

To be honest, and I may regret saying this, the idea of playing the same character for a very long time is very daunting to me.

By the time of the GDR's demise, two in every 13 citizens were informers.

As a matter of fact. I think I actually frighten men. I think I scare the hell out of them time after time.

His heart felt dangerously full, for the first time in years. That dried-up battered organ, suddenly flush with love. It could kill him.