Quotes About Fear

I can't bear the thought of oblivion, Asriel, she continued. Sooner anything than that. I used to think pain would be worse – to be tortured for ever – I thought that must be worse... But as long as you were conscious, it would be better, wouldn't it? Better than feeling nothing, just going into the dark, everything going out for ever and ever?

People don't like the uncanny, and rather than look fully at something disturbing, they'll avoid it altogether.

Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous. We're more concerned with not looking scared than with judging right.

Maybe sometimes we don't do the right thing because the wrong thing looks more dangerous, and we don't want to look scared, so we go and do the wrong thing just because it's dangerous.

There are some themes, some subjects, too large for adult fiction; they can only be dealt with adequately in a children's book.

If they turned their back on something frightening behind them and tried to get really interested in the stones and how they fitted together, or the leaves on the bush, like if only they could make themselves find that really important, they'd be safe.

What is this Dust? It comes from the sky. Some say it has always been there, some say it is newly falling. What is certain is that when people become aware of it, a great fear comes over them. and they'll stop at nothing to discover what it is. But it is not of any concern to witches.

It was something she knew she had to do, but she felt uneasy about it, and afraid, too.

Mientras volaba en silencio volvió la vista atrás, como si le persiguiera su miedo. Edmund Spenser

All she could do was hope, and she kept trying to do that in spite of the fear and loneliness.

They gave her another image: she was enticing monsters out of the darkness of herself.

A veces no hacemos lo debido porque lo indebido parece más peligroso, y no queremos demostrar que estamos asustados, de modo que hacemos algo que está mal simplemente porque es peligroso.

It was the most dangerous thing she had ever said. She could see quite clearly that only his astonishment prevented him from killing her at once.

When the Devil gets bored he tells stories to his bats and these bats fly to us and give us these stories as nightmares.

We live our lives between magic and panic.

I am marked like a road map from head to toe with my repressions. You can travel the length and breadth of my body over superhighways of shame and inhibition and fear.

You take off your clothes and you're in bed with somebody, and that is indeed where whatever you've concealed, your particularity, whatever it may be, however encrypted, is going to be found out, and that's what all the shyness is all about and what everybody fears.

He was no more, freed from being, entering into nowhere without even knowing it. Just as he'd feared from the start.

Great artists, as history reveals, have been harshly persecuted time and again by the frightened and ill-educated

Terrifying encounters with the end? I'm thirty-four! Worry about oblivion, he told himself, when you're seventy-five! The remote future will be time enough to anguish over the ultimate catastrophe!

Fear unmans us. Fear degrades us. Fostering less fear—that's your job and mine.

The terror of the unforeseen is what the science of history hides, turning a disaster into an epic.

Though I'd never forgotten Alan, I hadn't uttered his name aloud in the many years since he'd died, back in that decade when it seemed that the greatest menaces on earth were war, the atomic bomb, and polio.

And he couldn't do it. He could not fucking die. How could he leave? How could he go? Everything he hated was here.