Quotes About Fear

It seemed a poor swap to find that the only way one might keep from fearing death was to act numb and set apart as if dead already, with nothing much left of yourself but a hut of bones

the nausea due to misunderstanding a language, the fear due to unfamiliarity with a style, the conflict of generations, are all mild examples of sign shock.

For I fear the Gods, and show hospitality to all strangers; knowing that good deeds, like evil ones, always return to those who do them.

Each man kills the thing he loves. The coward does it with a kiss, the brave man with a sword.

Nothing makes a man sound crazier than to describe what crazy people are trying to do to him.

he who has trembled before the pedagogue's rod will not face the spear willingly.

Those who are still afraid of men have no fear of God and those who have fear of God have ceased to be afraid of men." —THE COST OF DISCIPLESHIP

Envy has empty hands and wants them full. Jealousy has full hands and never wants them empty. Envy languishes in self-pity because it doesn't have what others have. Jealousy rants in paranoia because it fears losing what it feels unworthy to own.

There are things out there in the night where light cannot exist that make Cthulhu look like a Care Bear.

I've met gibbering horrors from other universes, been psychically entangled with a serial killer fish goddess, stalked by zombies, imprisoned by a megalomaniac billionaire, and I've even survived the attention of the Auditors (when I was young, foolish, and didn't know any better). But I've never lost a classified file before, and I don't ever want there to be a first time. I force myself to sit down

Yes, Derek," I tell him, "we hauled you four thousand miles out of your comfort zone just so you could make a saving throw vs. Cthulhu. Happy now?

Horror fiction allows us to confront and sublimate our fears of an uncontrollable universe, but the threat verges on the overwhelming and may indeed carry the protagonists away. Spy fiction in contrast allows us to believe for a while that the little people can, by obtaining secret knowledge, acquire some leverage over the overwhelming threats that permeate their universe.

OF COURSE, SPACE travel isn't only about being stuffed into a claustrophobia-inducing cell, scared witless, trussed up in a restraint harness, and raped through every orifice for years on end. Because, you know, if that was all there was to it, there'd be a queue outside every travel agent.

Jim can't tell if he was screaming from fear or yodeling in exhilaration.

The most efficient kind of censorship isn't the heavy-handed black inking of the secret policeman; it's the self-censorship we impose on ourselves when we're afraid that if we say what we think everyone around us will think us strange.

Real physical perfection isn't something a guy like me gets to see up close and personal very often, and it's something to marvel at - then run away from, before it hypnotizes you like a snake staring into the eyes of something small, furry, and edible.

Possibly that's what happened out past the Böotes void—not a galactic-scale civilization, but a race of pathological cowards fleeing their own exponential transcendence.

If an ancient horror invites you into its limousine at gunpoint—

Everything is terrorism these days: downloading, uploading, jaywalking with intent to cause fear.

Collective violence has flowed regularly out of the central political processes of western countries... The oppressed have struck in the name of justice, the privileged in the name of order, the in-between in the name of fear.

Courage will keep her safer than fear.

Politics could be cruel and heartless. And I was afraid, with the tensions in Ireland, that it could also be deadly.

the frisson of fear that comes from knowing that you're safe even while the tigers noisily devour your neighbor.

I dared not make a mistake…