Quotes About Fear

The bully's greatest terror,' Bugg said, 'comes when he meets someone bigger and meaner—

For all your fears, love is not something you can forget. But you can turn your back on it.

Then darkness swept in around him and he knew no more.

It seems, captain, that as her power grows, her tolerance diminishes. They are like lodestones, pushing each other away. Does power not grant immunity? Does power not strengthen the armour; does power not find assurance in itself? Can it be that those who hold the most power also know the greatest fear?

Anarchists live in fear and long for death, because they despair of seeing in others the very virtues they lack in themselves. In this manner, they take pleasure in sowing destruction, if only to match their inner landscape of ruin.

Absence of doubt? No, nothing so egotistic as that. Nimander has plenty of doubts, so many that he's lost his fear of them. He accepts them as easily as anything else. Is that the secret? Is that the very definition of greatness?

No one could claim that Preda Norlo Trumb was the most perceptive of individuals, and the half-dozen Letherii guards under his command, who stood in a twitching clump behind the Preda, were now faced with the very real possibility that Trumb's stupidity was going to cost them their lives.

he could see the darkness pulse, and the smell of decay had thickened to a stench.

if there be callous ones among them, ah, what is it that you fear to reveal? There in that tear, that low sob? You smile in superiority, but what is the nature of this triumph of yours? I wish to know. Your self-made chains draped so tight about you are nothing to be proud of. Your inability to feel is not a virtue. And your smile has cracks.

His dying shriek rose skyward.

Skintick could not find himself in that future. He did not expect to complete this journey. He was not sure he even wanted to.

Ain't nothing so tensifying as running for your life at a snail's pace

Ain't nothing so tensifying as running for your life at a snail's pace, let me tell you

Life fears chaos. It was ever thus. We fear it more than anything else, because it is anathema. Order battles against dissolution. Order negotiates cooperation as a mechanism of survival, on every scale, from a patch of skin to an entire menagerie of interdependent creatures. That cooperation, of course, may not of essence be necessarily peaceful - a minute exchange of failures to ensure greater successes.

When thugs were in power, educated people were the first to feel their fists. It was so pathetic, really, how so much violence came from someone feeling small.

See him. In the eternity before dawn. When among mortals courage is at its weakest, when fear sinks talons on the threshold and will not let go. When one awakens to such loneliness as to twist a moan from the chest. But then... you feel it, breath catching. You feel it. You are not alone. The Watch stands guard.

Look into our friend's eyes, Karsa Orlong. Look closely." "I see nothing." "Delum sees the same, Warleader. He stares at... nothing. Unlike you, however, he does not turn away from it. Instead, he sees with complete comprehension. Sees, and is terrified.

Tattersail smiled. "The only death I fear is dying ignorant. No, is my answer.

I'm nervous." "Oh, how sad for you. Take it from me, it beats being scared witless.

Indeed, with words. Form an opinion, say it often enough and pretty soon everyone's saying it right back at you, and then it becomes a conviction, fed by unreasoning anger and defended with weapons of fear. At which point, words become useless and you're left with a fight to the death.

A releasing of said tension, a dying of the sparks. I now fear getting depressed." "The risk of achieving what you wish for.

Paranoia's the assassin's bedmate

A Hood-damned Seguleh. High ranked, too. We'd never have got our shots off – no way. Our heads would have rolled like a pair of oversized snowballs. 'I looked away, Fid. I looked right down at the ground when she turned my way.' 'Me too.' 'And that's why we're still alive.' 'Aye.

They'd needed each other, and though thereafter they rarely spoke of that night – the only one they had shared – she had once commented, in a private moment, that she'd drunk so much to find the courage to invite him to lie with her.