Quotes About Fear

I think sometimes horror fiction has a significance which we forget, which is if you fear something in fiction, you have the chance of a resolution. You have a chance that the story will finish itself.

Fear in front and bedlam behind.

Horror shows us that the control we believe we have is purely illusory.

Why do boys always love talking about ghosts and murders and hangings?' 'Because it's exciting,' Wendell said.

Houses weren't haunted, only human minds.

I lived, I suppose, in a cell of my own creation, while outside its walls lay a landscape of unparalleled richness. But I could not bear to venture there. In my self-delusion I thought I was a minor king, and I didn't want to step beyond the bounds of what I knew for fear I lost my dominion.

There's no delight the equal of dread.

En el mundo hay algo peor que el Terror... Hay sueños que se vuelven realidad.

No hay mayor placer que el terror. Siempre y cuando sea el de otra persona

Welcome to the worst nightmare of all, reality!

A man does not run among thorns for no reason; either he is chasing a snake or a snake is chasing him.

Rakkaus - - vaanii meitä kuin kuolema ja verot.

Rock concerts, baseball games, and even church gatherings would all be canceled in fear of sparking new outbreaks. Those who would venture out for food or medicine would only do so clad in rubber gloves and surgical masks. The economic impact to the country would be devastating. Wholesale industries would be forced to shut down overnight. Furloughed and laid-off workers would spike unemployment rates to double that of the Great Depression.

In homes and apartments, citizens would be forced to live like incarcerated prisoners, afraid to mingle with neighbors, friends, or even close relatives for fear of risking infection.

I did not look for her, because I was afraid of dispelling the mystery we attach to people whom we know only casually.

They let me know that we are here to create and that there's always enough in the garden, and we must defend that against our fear. We have to be playful as we plant, grow, and co-create.

Women need to do more. We need to find out what it is we're afraid of, and go beyond.

Also, I have a mornid fear of rates, and mice, and nettles and wasps and jagged cans and rotting food and damp newspapers and the unemployed.

Americans in 1763 lived always in the shadow and presence of death. Death was not yet romanticized as it would be in the 19th century, nor yet sanitized as it would be in the 20th century.

i dream of ships at sea, on a stormy night i wish that it was me, but i wake up in fright

Siberia: it fills one twelfth of the land-mass of the whole Earth, yet this is all it leaves for certain in the mind. A bleak beauty, and an indelible fear.

The body will destroy the germs of a physical illness within a week; but the mind will preserve germs of morbidity or fear for a lifetime.

fear can be the most powerful of weapons.

It was the day after Sam's house collapsed, though she couldn't be sure. Best to measure time now with one of the Randall plantation's cotton scales, her hunger and fear piling on one side while her hopes were removed from the other in increments. The only way to know how long you are lost in the darkness is to be saved from it.