Quotes About Fear

Women agonize... over cancer; we take as a personal threat the lump in every friend's breast.

Fear was an artificial condition. It's imposed from the outside. So it's possible to fight it. You should do the things you're afraid of.

I guess you can't tell a story from the point of view of something that you don't think has a point of view.(You know, just imagine everything it says in the most sarcastic tone possible.) "There's unrealistic that takes you away from reality and unrealistic that reminds you that everybody's afraid of you.

Target Two's gray face went surprised, then furious. It was kind of funny. This was a point where if I was a human (ick) I might have laughed. I decided to go with my first inclination and kill the shit out of some ass-faced hostiles instead. I told the Targets, "Angry, then afraid, then dead. Is that the right order?

Frankly, I didn't know what station security was going to do about it, either. In fact, I'm sure station security was now shitting itself almost as hard as I metaphorically was.

The humans hadn't gotten a lot of sleep last night, from the crowding and the strong possibility of dying.

I am going to have to stop scaring the shit out of myself.

Target Four ran toward me because assholes love to see your face when they kill you.

Overconfident humans who don't listen to anybody else scare the hell out of me.)

Moon couldn't think of anything reassuring to say. They were trapped inside a leviathan, standing in a tunnel gnawed out by giant parasites. Going blank with terror was a perfectly rational way to react, especially for a groundling.

Because change is terrifying. Choices are terrifying. But having a thing in your head that kills you if you make a mistake is more terrifying.

Humans are nervous of me because I'm a terrifying murderbot, and I'm nervous of them because they're humans.

In the creche, our moms always said that fear was an artificial condition. It's imposed from the outside. So it's possible to fight it. You should do the things you're afraid of.

Along with the horror of what had just happened, there had been the dawning realization that they had fallen into thinking of their SecUnit as a faceless machine, a convenience, an interface with their security system. But it had taken a sentient being who understood fear and pain to talk its way through Volescu's blind terror.

Join the Rienish navy. See unusual sights. Never sleep with the lights out again.

I couldn't hack a combat bot without making a direct physical connection, and trying for that would result in me being torn apart. (I've been torn apart before, and on my list of things to avoid, it was right up there at the top.)

our moms always said that fear was an artificial condition. It's imposed from the outside. So it's possible to fight it. You should do the things you're afraid of.

be my first accidental murder.

Let's investigate the dark cave without that pesky SecUnit" group.

Okay, maybe I should have been appalled. It was a terrifying idea. It was a terrifyingly attractive idea. I said, "A documentary on the entertainment feed?

It was like she could see me through my visor, which was a terrifying enough thought that my performance reliability dropped 3 percent.

I meant to wait until I was back up to at least 90 percent performance reliability but I heard Amena say, "There's no weapon, you got the wrong ship." The fear in her voice was more obvious and I was suddenly in the room. (Impulse control; I should try to write a code patch for that.)

I'm a shut up or get your head smashed.

There's all kinds of ways to die, and most of them don't involve actual death, just the handing over of the soul to fear and anger and greed. Or despair. Very few people have the guts to deal with life on life's terms.