Quotes About Fear

Erchov atteignait le sommet de sa vie et il avait peur

Kiril Roublev glissa, à longues enjambées sur ses skis, jusqu'à a la station suivante, le long de bois silencieux où l'obscurité semblait naître à ras de terre ainsi qu'une brume insaisissable. Un mince croissant de lune bleu terriblement effilé, épousant la forme d'une gorge idéale, monta dans la nuit. Roublev pensa: Vilaine lune. La peur vient tout à fait comme la nuit.

J'ai eu ensuite une crise de doute, à quoi étais-je bonne se je ne pouvais pas écarter les balles autour de toi...

I had learned a long time ago that there was no point at all in setting out to meet dragons and in the like on an empty stomach.

When a criminal is rattled what does he do? He starts making mistakes.

It wasn't as if she was terrified of heights, she simply preferred to be closer to solid ground, where words like plummet and plunge did not linger in her mind.

To love anyone means to admit extinction. I tell myself this, so I never fall in love, so that the fire lights just me.

What's the rush?", you said about publishing. I added: "Does the world need another competent book of poems?" Most times, we wouldn't answer our own questions because what did we know? We only knew that we couldn't scrub poetry off our bodies. And we ourselves feared the greatest death, which was writing merely competent poems.

Cordelia glared at me. 'I expect if someone strapped you to table an swung an axe over your naked quivering flesh like The Pit and the Pendulum, you'd be correcting his grammar'.

The man who tells you nothing frightens him is whistling in the dark. Besides, fear is not necessarily bad. It may guard you from harm. And I suspect that fear of being caught, punished and disgraced keeps many more of us from committing crimes than does the voice of conscience'.

What a pity, I reflected, that honesty in human relations is so rarely possible. We are compelled to approach, circle and retreat as though performing the steps of a complicated dance, neither trusting the appearance of truth not daring to speak it.

All paths cause pain, so to chose the safe over the audacious will not give you less pain, only less beauty.

I like creating beauty out of scary things.

Some people have youth, some have beauty – I have menace.

Beauty is terror. Whatever we call beautiful, we quiver before it.

Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: But with poverty everything becomes frightful.

I wanted to make a horror film about beauty.

I live only in the moment in this strange unmortal space, crowded with beauty, pierced with danger.

But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content.

Beauty is what sustains things, although beauty is underwritten by pain and fear.

I wasn't afraid of getting old, because I was never a great beauty.

The beauty of being an actor in a horror film is that you know what to expect and what's coming.

This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.

I've always thought the best way to teach a kid not to be scared of the dark is to fill his daylight hours with as much horror as possible.