Quotes About Fear

do not dare, I do not dare to write it, if you die. Pablo Neruda, "The Dead Woman," The Captain's

I do not dare, I do not dare to write it, if you die. Pablo Neruda, "The Dead Woman," The Captain's Verses

Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

What if I got hit by lightning while walking with an umbrella? Ban umbrellas! Fight the menace of lightning!

She had been beaten down by too many boys and men, too much hurt and poverty and fear. This was what Mala was destined to become, someone who ran from her attackers because she couldn't afford to anger them. She wouldn't do it.

Impatience, not fear, is the mind-killer.

he realized that the whispered conversations about money and jobs that all the grown-ups had all the time were the outward reflection of deep, unending terror. A fear that gnawed at every grown person. A primordial terror of the tiger outside the cave.

Blowing them up or shooting them wasn't right, but a world in which the wicked went about their days frightened of retribution was a more just one than a world where the wicked held their heads high.

If you want, you can make him seem erratic and unreliable so they get rid of him. You can manufacture crises that might make one side or the other reveal the identities of other spies. In short, you own them. This is called the man-in-the-middle attack and if you think about it, it's pretty scary. Someone who man-in-the-middles your communications can trick you in any of a thousand ways. No man, I don't get scared. I'm always scared.

You know what is in Room 101, Winston. Everyone knows what is in Room 101.

Ah, children, be afraid of going prayerless to bed, lest the Devil be your bedfellow.

Remember, it isn't the snake bite that does the serious damage; it's chasing the snake that drives the poison to the heart.

How deeply do any of us know our own selves? Ask yourself. We hold a picture of how we wish to be and hope it goes forever unchallenged. Passing through life never pursuing aspects of our natures with which we'd rather not reckon. Dying strangers to ourselves.

You hear about the guy who took too much blotter acid and had a lifelong trip?" he asked me once. "The cops were outside his door, coming to bust him, so he ate his whole stash. Now he thinks he's a glass of orange juice. He's in the nuthatch, bug-eyed and shivering, terrified someone's coming to drink him.

maybe fear is God's way of saying, Pay attention, this could be fun.

When you are lost or looking for someone suspected lost, the CROWDS of people form a threatening undertow undermining your every effort.

He says he comes in peace, said Hiccup He's still going to kill us, though.

The first Dragon was enough to give you nightmares. The second Dragon was enough to give your nightmares nightmares.

Wodensfang, you're paranoid, said Hiccup, yawning. It's only paranoia, whispered the Wodensfang, if things aren't out to get you...

Uh-oh, thought Hiccup, who was an intelligent boy. This person wants to kill me.

Being frightened is not the same as being a coward. Maybe he was as brave as anyone else there, because he went to catch a dragon despite knowing what dragons are like.

He looked as frightened as I was. I looked at him, and I saw myself.1,080 rount

OUTCASTS! R-R-RUN FOR YOUR LIVES, YOU S-S-SSTUPID H-H-HUMANS!!!

Sometimes, when I lie awake at night," said Wish, with big eyes, "I think I can hear, beyond the Wall, the sound of giants howling, as if they're being attacked by Witches… Don't you hear that, Bodkin? Are we supposed to just stay here, safe behind our Wall, and let that carry on?