Quotes About Fear

Conspiracy theory's got to be simple. Sense doesn't come into it. People are more scared of how complicated shit actually is than they ever are about whatever's supposed to be behind the conspiracy.

He'd lived for so long on a constant edge of anxiety that he'd almost forgotten what real fear was.

Even the delusionally paranoid have enemies.

It was such an easy thing, death. He saw that now: It just happened. You screwed up by a fraction and there it was, something chill and odorless, ballooning out from the four stupid corners of the room, your mother's Barrytown living room.

What Shaylene saw as Burton's primary symptom of traumatic stress, Flynne thought, was his ongoing failure to ask her out.

I think I'd tell her about the loneliness of being misunderstood. Or is it the loneliness of being afraid to allow ourselves to be understood?

terror should remain the sole prerogative of the state.

the crashing of the games, his heart hammering. When the fear came, it was like some half-forgotten friend. Not the cold, rapid mechanism of the dex-paranoia, but simple animal fear. He'd lived for so long on a constant edge of anxiety that he'd almost forgotten what real fear was.

You're too young to remember it," Verity's mother said, "but we were expecting nuclear war all the time, really, up into my early thirties. Later, all of that felt unreal. But the feeling that things became basically okay turns out to have actually been what was unreal.

People are more scared of how complicated shit actually is than they ever are about whatever's supposed to be behind the conspiracy.

Never hurt me. . . ." The voice was her own, lost and amazed, the voice of a child, and suddenly she was free, free of need, desire, free of fear, and all that she felt for the handsome face across the table was simple revulsion, and she could only stare at him

His toes were making little squelching noises, each time he took a step, and what if the last thing you knew before you died was just some pathetic discomfort like that, like your shoes were soaked and your socks were wet, and you weren't ever going to get to change them? Rydell

She realized then that she was screaming. Not words or anything, just screaming.

Listen to the fear. Maybe it's your friend.

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.

I was brought up to hate and fear liberty. I came to love it. That is the secret of my whole career.

If I blow the conch and they don't come back; then we've had it. We shan't keep the fire going. We'll be like animals. We'll never be rescued. If you don't blow, we'll soon be animals anyway.

The beast was harmless and horrible; and the news must reach the others as soon as possible.

Kill the pig! Cut his throat! Kill the pig! Bash him in!

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill!

The thing is---fear can't hold you any more than a dream...

He forgot his wounds, his hunger and thirst, and became fear; hopeless fear

I'm scared of him, said Piggy, and that's why I know him. If you're scared of someone you hate him but you can't stop thinking about him. You kid yourself he's all right really, an' then when you see him again, it's like asthma an' you can't breathe.

I'm frightened. Of us.