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Quotes About Fear

The question is always the same with a dragon: will he talk with you or will he eat you?
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
Often a cold shudder has run through me, and I have asked myself whether I may have not devoted myself to a fantasy.
~ Charles Darwin
The deer hovered by the trees beyond as the sounds of the ravening wolves came to them across the grass, their own senses almost frozen in impotent horror.
~ David Clement-Davies
Documentary is a little like horror movies, putting a face on fear and transforming threat into fantasy, into imagery. One can handle imagery by leaving it behind. (It is them, not us.)
~ Martha Rosler
Where there is a monster, there is a miracle.
~ Ogden Nash
Superstition is just fantasy with attitude; it's a way of erroneously trying to control events.
~ Joy Browne
Heroes need monsters to establish their heroic credentials. You need something scary to overcome.
~ Margaret Atwood
Horror, for me, has to involve some sort of fantasy. Horror is something that is in your dreams or your nightmares.
~ Cassandra Peterson
Scratch a fantasy and you'll find a nightmare.
~ Gail Caldwell
People don't like to say Horror so they say Dark Fantasy because that's Horror wearing a collar and tie.
~ Terry Pratchett
But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the dry bed of the river to batter down the door.
~ Garth Nix, Abhorsen
We live in a bubble of the fantasy of death, but the reality of it is something that we obviously all face and have to deal with, at some point.
~ Michael Sheen
Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.? Stephen King, The Shining
~ Stephen King, The Shining
Never tease anything that wants to eat you." Reign of Blood
~ Unknown
We must be careful what we imagine, fear, or hope for. The echoes of our thought live on in eternity.
~ Robert Fanney
Come in, Martise." Silhara's voice was almost sibilant in the darkness as he tagged on her hand. "There are no soul eaters here." No, she thought. Only heart thieves.
~ Unknown
Every hero is scared. That-s what being brave is about - confronting fear.
~ Unknown
Humans did not want to know about non-humans. Funny thing was most non-humans felt the same way, happy to hide their abilities and talents to avoid witch hunts and wholesale slaughter.
~ Mary Buckham, Invisible Magic
I never thought my life would end like this. Being hunted by mythological creatures in my pajamas. Honestly, it never entered my mind.
~ Amanda Carlson, Struck
For all I know, the guy is Dracula.
~ Unknown
Nothing like being in a dream, then waking up to a nightmare.
~ Anthony Liccione
Dirge of the dying and the stench of fear, Black souls repent as hell draws near, " - Percy Pemmeney the smuggler, from Curse of Ancient Shadows.
~ Unknown
There is absolutely nothing that can harm the shadow. Nothing. I advise you strongly not try.
~ Unknown
There is no shame in being afraid.
~ Unknown