Quotes About Fear

In it {a film Peter saw} a sadistic sergeant broke the spirit of soldier in a military prison by beating him up at systematically random intervals, from more than a day down to a quarter of an hour, so that the victim never knew when the next attack was coming, never felt safe. Life with Muriel, it seemed to Peter, had over the last seven or eight years turned into a decreasingly bearable version of that.

I am driven into grudging toleration of the Conservative party because it is the party of nonpolitics, of resistance to politics. I have seen how many of the evils of life — failure, loneliness, fear, boredom, inability to communicate — are ineradicable by political means, and that attempts so to eradicate them are disastrous.

A sudden douche of terror then squirted itself all over Dixon. After a moment he realized that this was because he had a plan and was about to carry it out. He panted a little with the enormity of it, then drained his glass and said quaveringly: Here goes then. Good-bye for now.

Whatever passably decent treatment Margaret had had from him was the result of a temporary victory of fear over irritation and/or pity over boredom.

Even now dread still struck her down sometimes if she found herself counting on things being fine

quizá incluso tenía miedo— a especular.

If you looked for demons around every corner, you would eventually find them. Real or imagined.

enkele grote gevoelens blijven het mensenhart bezighouden: eerzucht en liefde, eenzaamheid en honger, vriendschap en angst voor de dood - of verlangen daarnaar.

It looks very much, as if these men are likely to assign a penis to a certain type of woman (the proletarian whore) whose penis they fear as an instrument of castration. The men experience Communism as a direct assault on their genitals!

No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation.

The dark monsters out there would suck me up when night came on, and they would carry me far across the sea and through strange lands where no humans lived.

she turned religious. How could she help it? No one can help it in the wilds; life there is not all earthly toil and worldliness; there is piety and the fear of death and rich superstition.

Å de hadde begge hat rædsel for følgerne, javel, og de hadde like så idelig fornyet rædslerne. Nei det var ikke sport og væddemål, det var murring i blodet, nødvendig dumhet og dårskap efter verdens ældste mønster, kanske også noget gyldent, kanske kjærlighet, de tkunde være så mange ting tilsammen.

Intense desire not only creates its own possibilities, but its own talents. Don't be afraid to do something just because it's impossible.

Even a passenger on an airplane falling from the sky can't shake the hope that he'll be the one to survive.

Il timore che un cane possa far del male a un bambino è addirittura ridicolo; molto più giustificata è, semmai, la preoccupazione opposta che cioè il cane si lasci tropo strapazzare dai bambini, contribuendo così a educarli a una totale mancanza di riguardo nei suoi confronti.

This is what it's all been about with you, he said in an even tone. All the fear, all the running. The nightmares. When she nodded, he said, You called him the devil. He is. What are you thinking, Scot? But you... married him? MacRieve's disgusted with me. Basically? Yes. Ceremony and everything? She swallowed. He tricked me into it. I-I was only sixteen. A muscle ticked in his cheek and his irises grew pale. Then know this... She stopped breathing. Lass, I'm about to make you a widow--

I hope they're in town. I want to face them!" Regin stood and brandished one of the two swords that she usually wore in sheaths crisscrossed on her back in addition to the dagger sheath she customarily wore on her forearm. I'll lunch on their balls! That was Regin's new threat: to lunch on enemies' balls. Reege, when you threaten males with that, I don't think it has the result you intend. They think less Lunchables , more tea bag .

Two things that can never be contained? Velociraptors and zombies. ~Carrow Graie

This morning Jackson had told Matthew, You mention death one more time, and Ill knock you into next week. Comprends ? Already been there, Matthew had answered.

Evie, bed down." Scanning the dark, he murmured, "You doan have to be scared. I've got you." You do, don't you? Here we were in the Bagmen's lair, and I wasn't terrified for my life. Jackson would kill any that strayed too close. In fact, they should fear him. I was with the boy that monsters should fear.

She'd made him watch every Alien movie. Most of the goriest scenes were accompanied by his dialogue: 'Ach, that's no' - that's just no' right.... Bloody hell, this canna be right.

Similar situation ? Like the one where you put me in fear for my life, then let go of that damned vine to heartlessly build my fear ? MacRieve, I hope I enthralled you. Then you can rot wanting me to be yours.

He pointed a shaking finger at her. 'You,' he growled. She jerked glances over both of her shoulders looking for the unfortunate You he was addressing. Her. Holy shite, this madman had settled on her.