Quotes About Fear

My mam told me not to tell many people about not being christened, as she said I would be a prime target for witches. To this day I don't know what she meant by that.

had a wee in the Amazon. Until Richard told me I should be careful because there are some tiny fish that can swim up from the water through my urine and into my knob! Is that how amazing the Amazon is? The fish in there would really rather live in my knob than the river.

I like being in control, was all Keely said, looking at him. She could have said, I hate for anyone to know I don't know everything, that I sometimes feel so out of my depth that three lifesavers wouldn't keep me from drowning, but she didn't What's so wrong with that?

Terror is the instinct that tells you to run, dear God, run, she murmured. Run for your life. But it just makes you into meat. Predators take the ones who run. Horror is the mind-thing, the worm of knowledge you can't stop turning over no matter how awful it is. It grows in your mind and destroys you by your own intelligence.

There was no place to hide from a creature who stalked the edges of death itself.

the less we fear that foreigners are going to kill us, the less we're interested in them'.

If people believed in eternal damnation they might not be seizing the day quite so much.

Just because something bad had happened to her doesn't mean it won't happen again.

They had triumphed over death this night. Sylvie wondered when death would seek his revenge.

The only time you were safe was when you were dead.

That was the one thing June had been terrified of having - a standard life, an ordinary life, a life like her parents' - living in a pink sandstone semi-detached villa in the suburbs with a neat garden and an en-suite master bedroom with fitted wardrobes

No woman was ever truly safe. It didn't matter if you were as tough as Sigourney Weaver in Alien Resurrection or Linda Hamilton in Terminator 2 because wherever you went there were men.

She remembered holding Pamela's babies – remembered Teddy and Jimmy, too – how overwhelming the feelings of love and terror, the desperate desire to protect. How much stronger would those feelings be if it were her own child? Perhaps too strong to bear. Over

He was at that dangerous age when men suddenly notice that they're going to die eventually, inevitably, and there isn't a damn thing they can do about it, but that doesn't stop them from trying, whether it's shagging anything that moves or listening to early Bruce Springsteen and buying a top-of-the-range motorbike (a BMW K 1200 LT usually, thus considerably upping their chances of meeting death even earlier than anticipated).

One could lose everything in the blink of an eye, the slip of a foot. "One must avoid dark thoughts at all costs.

Man is afraid to attain what he longs for, just as subconsciously he longs for what he is afraid of.

Ghosts were created when the first man awoke in the night.

Never did Poesy appear So full of heaven to me, as when I saw how it would pierce through pride and fear To the lives of coarsest men.

A man that is not afraid of a Lion is afraid of a Cat .

How can you render the duties of justice to men when they may destroy you?

Men really need sea-monsters in their personal oceans. An ocean without its unnamed monsters would be like a completely dreamless sleep.

Fierce and poisonous animals were created for terrifying man, in order that he might be made aware of the final judgment in hell.

Heaven help the man who fights his fear.

We're young men; we're not ready to die.