Quotes About Fear

Woden's beard, it was her they were after. The maid.

Peretur patted Bony's shoulder, and could not tell if the horse trembled or she did. Was this fear?

I think she knows she's made a terrible, irreversible mistake, but she can't stop because if she did, she'd have to acknowledge the mistake and the fact that people really don't care. They just think she's a freak.

For some reason it wasn't as hard to have her touch me, now that she knew my name. Her fingers were strong and brisk. I wondered who she went home to, whether she washed their hair for them in the shower or bath, if she knew how easy it would be to hurt me across the larynx with a shampoo bottle and watch me choke to death. I almost sat up.

They look normal, but they don't feel a goddamn thing, don't know happy from sad from a hole in the ground. They walk around smiling and frowning and pretending to feel shit, and think everyone else out there is pretending, too. No one's real to these guys, you know what I mean? I don't mind telling you, Torvingen, they scare the crap out of me.

The thought of going alone into the king's tent full of men who had just killed other men made her feel dizzy.

By the time they saw the outer walls of Caer Leon, her legs were steadier though inside she felt a shiver like an ash key twirling too fast in the wind.

Hild bent over and vomited stinging bile, then through her weeping, killed the man at her feet.

Have you kissed anyone? Boldcloak? Your gemæcce?" Hild shook her head. "Well, perhaps they were frightened of kissing the king's seer. But I'm not. I know what you need.

Excitement is the product of facing something dangerous.

Your bodywoman is no doubt making the household miserable. Fear has made her vicious.

The shadows around her loomed longer and darker. She didn't know what her light was.

Bravery is relative. Perhaps it's the same with dreams.

If a lord was frightening, a noble lady was terrifying.

always expect the worst because in the end you wont be disappointed...

Modern man fears technology's destructive capacity, when it is its constructive capacity that threatens him.

Every civilization is a dialogue with death.

Die These der Einheit der Wissenschaft ist kein epistemologische Erfordernis. Nicht einmal ein intellektuelles Programm. Sondern angstvolle Verkrampfung angesichts des Geheimnisses.

Revolutions are frightening, but election campaigns are disgusting.

Modern man calls walking more quickly in the same direction down the same road "change." The world, in the last three hundred years, has not changed except in that sense. The simple suggestion of a true change scandalizes and terrifies modern man.

Eugenics appals those who fear its judgment.

Die Zeit ist weniger zu fürchten, weil sie tötet, als weil sie demaskiert.

With poverty everything becomes frightful.

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