Quotes About Fear

They want us a bit dumb and a bit afraid. Which for the most part, I think we are.

You imagine the devil, you make the devil.

Yer a dead man!" Davy shouts, going in a full circle with the horse jumping and rearing. "Yer half right," I say.

They're just stupid berries. Woo-hoo, so scary . Oh, please, please, save me from the berries!

Then I will eat you alive.

Miss Kwan said, putting her voice into its "kindly" mode, which was only slightly less scary than full-on shouting.

Will the world end in darkness because it is foretold? Or because there will be those who believe it so strongly they will make it so? In the fear that I always try to hide in my heart, I wonder if there is even a difference.

If a crowd can flinch, they flinch. More than a thousand men flinch under the fist of just one. I don't see what the women do.

There are worse things than being invisible, the monster had said, and it was right.

Raising his eyes to look directly into Linus's face was maybe the scariest thing he'd had to do all day long, but it was only the free-falling terror that always accompanied hope.

If the infeckshun from the band takes Viola," I say, "you'll beg me to kill you after what I'll do to you." "I believe you," says the Mayor.

The nightmare feeling was rising in him, turning everything seem heavy and impossible, like he'd been asked to lift a mountain with his bare hands and no one would let him leave until he did.

There are worse things that being invisible, the monster had said, and it was right.

And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most. He believed selfishly and fearfully. And it took the lives of his daughters.

Stories are the wildest things of all, the monster rumbled. Stories chase and bite and hunt.

Is it because hope is scary?' my father asked. I looked back at him, startled. 'You think so, too?' He smiled, full of love. 'Hope is terrifying, Viola,' he said. 'No one wants to admit it, but it is.

Not one of them lifting a hand to save theirselves from what's coming, hoping if they're meek enough, if they're weak enough, then the monster won't eat 'em.

They're just stupid berries. Woo-hoo, so scary. Oh, please, please, save me from the berries!" The monster looked at him quizzically. "How strange", it said. "The words you say tell me you are scared of the berries, but your actions seem to suggest otherwise. "You're as old as the land and you've never heard of sarcasm?" Conor asked.

What happened in the nightmare was something no one else ever needed to know. Conor

Hope is terrifying, Viola," he said. "No one wants to admit it, but it is.

So what do I do?" he finally asked. You do what you did just know, the monster said. You speak the truth. "That's it?" You think it's easy? The monster raised two enormous eyebrows. You were willing to die rather than speak it.

I wanted him to do it, I wanted it to happen- And it did. I controlled him. Just like the Mayor. I watch him go, still walking to the food store, like it was his own idea. My hands are shaking. Bloody hell.

The words you say tell me you are scared of the berries, but your actions seem to suggest otherwise.

No tienes miedo, ¿eh? - No –dijo Conor-. Por lo menos, no de ti. El monstruo entrecerró los ojos. - Ya lo tendrás –dijo-. Antes del final.