Quotes About Fear

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

Who can ever forget George W. Bush, in the days and weeks after the terrorist attack of September 11, 2001, exhorting people not to be afraid, to get out and do the right thing, the patriotic thing, the one thing that could get the economy moving forward again: start shopping.

could not bear to think that they might love another woman . . . I dare not let them go to the embraces of anyone else . . .

What is passing for religion in most of the Earth now is its opposite: xenophobia and road rage.

I've been in a car three or four times when it filled with water and it's not a comfortable feeling.

He wrote to tell him not to be scared that he had injured his brain, because he had done the same thing and got better. It was a source of comfort beyond words.

Probably the most distinctive characteristic of the successful politician is selective cowardice.

If there was a God up there, which there wasn't, why was it that he worked so hard to identify whatever thing a man dreaded most, and, having identified it, why did he always, always, vindictively succeed in making that very thing come to pass?

Bring a vampire around, people start discovering religion.

Now you got us whammied with the curse of squirmy death.

Horror writers are specialists in the worst-case scenario.

Killing, resurrecting, living with a zombie. Even if she could accept all that

All my worries had been for nothing. That's usually how it is with worrying. More often than not, we get ourselves all in a sweat over something that might happen, then everything turns out just fine.

That sort of aloneness gives you goosebumps scurrying up your spine. It makes your scalp crawl.

A coward dies many times. A brave man never tastes of death but once.

It is strange how loud little sounds become when you are in the dark and doing something wrong.

Foolish is the mind of a man to make bogeys for itself and to live in terrors of fear for things which lack of the substance of truth.

Man is a coward in space, for he is by himself.

And I wanted to be as I had been yesterday, a boy again, without the heaviness of doubt, this pressing fear, this new treachery that lifted to realms of singing gold, and in a little space, flung to pits of night.

I had slept nothing all night, making ghosts for myself, filling my mind with them and giving myself pale frights. All the ghosts had a different punishment for me, some of them shocking indeed.

I saw what he was afraid of doing and I had sympathy, for however hard we fought, we must be beaten by empty bellies. The rights of man are poor things beside the eyes of hungry children. Their hurts are keener than the soreness of injustice.

The strength of the vampire is that no one will believe in him.

For him the word 'horror' had become obsolete.

Really now, search your soul, lovie-is the vampire so bad? All he does is drink blood.