Quotes About Fear

Although Achilles wore no armour, the mere sight of him, standing high on the embankment, bathed in an unearthly light and uttering the most piercing and monumental battle-cry was enough to scatter the Trojans. Three times Achilles yelled his terrible war cry. The Trojans and even their horses were filled with fear. In triumph the Achaeans bore the body of Patroclus back to their camp.

He knew he could never jingle change in his pocket or park his car like a confident adult, he was the Adrian he had always been, casting a guilty look over a furtive shoulder, living in eternal dread of a grown-up striding forward to clip his ear.

triskaidekaphobic.

So perhaps we are all hypocrites. We damn others for what we fear as faults in ourselves. We rehearse the shortcomings of 'people' as a means of warding off the evil spirits that threaten us. It is certainly observable that those who most notice another's excessive drinking, for instance, are those most worried about their own habit.

He can hardly dare to suggest anything if you thunder at him like that," said Odysseus. "Either you want him to speak or you want to terrify him into silence. You can't have both.

Horror's not a symptom, it's a love affair.

Sometimes they need help in the form of a furie running at them, her mouth open in a scream, her eyes white hot, her heart forever pure.

Always feed a wolf his fill, the old woman quotes out loud, lest you wake with your throat in his jaws.

I regard the afterlife to be a fairy story for people that are afraid of the dark

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die, I have so much I want to do first

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark

I'm far too intelligent to be brave, thank you very much.

Ich hasse Schlangen«, sagte Russ. »Verdammt, Junge«, versetzte Sam, »das sind doch bloß Eidechsen ohne Beine.«

I'm like, wait a minute, wait a minute! I mean, I just want to know one thing: How do you teach them not to eat your kids?

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

There's no bitch on earth like a mother frightened for her kids.

FEAR stands for fuck everything and run.

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.

Nobody likes a clown at midnight

It was the possibility of darkness that made the day seem so bright.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.

Sometimes there is absolutely no difference at all between salvation and damnation.

We all float down here!

Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.