Quotes About Fear

through the woods. Big Bear. I heard him fall

The leopards will walk upright like men on our paths. The snakes will come out of the ground and seek our houses instead of hiding in their own.

I suppose it is in our nature," she said finally. "When men fear the loss of what they know, they will follow any tyrant who promises to restore the old order." "If that is our nature, then nature is madness. These are more dangerous times than we ever have known." *

If fight or flight is the choice, it's way easier to fly.

But people desire fair government. You say that constantly." "They want to believe in heroes, also. And villains. Especially when very frightened. It's less taxing than the truth.

But this is just one place. I'm afraid I have seen a world.

And then while we all still waited I understood that the terror of my recurring dream was not about losing just vision, but the whole of myself, whatever that was. What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you might not exist. You could be nowhere at all.

it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.

It's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.

of people: if the shark comes, they will all escape, and leave you to be eaten.

When men fear the loss of what they know, they will follow any tyrant who promises to restore the old order." "If that is our nature, then nature is madness. These are more dangerous times than we ever have known." *

Sometimes, in his nightmares, everything on this desk sings at once. He comes back

People love to believe in danger, as long as it's you in harm's way

I was afraid of crying if I couldn't touch her.

Because what would be left, when all these books were in the past? He lay awake nights dreading it.

They had chickens at one time, including this rooster with the mind of a serial killer that gave me bad dreams.

It's hard to explain how you can miss a place and want it with all your heart, and be utterly sure it will obliterate you the instant you touch down.

Teach them to see evidence for themselves, and not to fear it." "To stand in the clear light of day

Lou Ann's life was ruled by the fear of salmonella, to the extent that she claimed the only safe way to eat potato salad was to stick your head in the refrigerator and eat it in there.

She breathed in slowly; this was what she had, the beauty of this awful night. She listened for small yips in the distance, something to put in her heart besides the lost phoebes and the dread of another full moon rising with no more small celebrations from her body ever again. She kept herself still and tried to think of coyote children emerging from the forest's womb with their eyes wide open while the finite possibilities of her own children closed their eyes, finally, on this world.

When men fear the loss of what they know, they will follow any tyrant who promises to restore the old order." "If that is our nature, then nature is madness. These are more dangerous times than we ever have

Teach them to see evidence for themselves, and not to fear it." "To stand in the clear light of day, you once said. Unsheltered.

These are more dangerous times than we ever have known.

I suppose it is in our nature," she said finally. "When men fear the loss of what they know, they will follow any tyrant who promises to restore the old order." "If that is our nature, then nature is madness.