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Quotes About Fear

Happiness hates the timid. So does science.
~ Eugene O'Neill
Science frees us in many ways...from the bodily terror which the savage feels. But she replaces that, in the minds of many, by a moral terror which is far more overwhelming.
~ Charles Kingsley
About weak points [of the Origin] I agree. The eye to this day gives me a cold shudder, but when I think of the fine known gradations, my reason tells me I ought to conquer the cold shudder.
~ Charles Darwin
When, as we must often do, we fear science, we really fear ourselves. Human dignity is better served by embracing knowledge.
~ John Charles Polanyi
When I was a kid, I was a big science fiction fan, but current horror books were harder to get your hands on.
~ John Darnielle
She was afraid of not being able to pull herself out of the dream world, never waking up, never knowing what really happened, never realizing her goals, her hopes, her dreams.
~ B. Barmanbek, Culpa Innata
Help!" he yelled and he lifted one leg, trying to run. But you can't outrun the membrane — he was soon gone.
~ Carol Moreira, Membrane
F***ing triffids.
~ Scott B. Pruden
Now, this was a combination that she wouldn't dare to dream of, even in her worst nightmare.
~ B. Barmanbek, Culpa Innata
Suddenly, a high-pitched sound blasted into the room. The floor began shaking beneath her feet. She paused for a moment, wondering if she was causing this.
~ Anne-Rae Vasquez, Doubt
Are you afraid?""Yes.""Energy never stops, remember. It just changes forms.""I am still afraid.
~ Amie Kaufman, Illuminae
Well we've moved through the funfair a bit - we've done the rollercoaster, now we're on the ghost train.
~ Steven Moffat
There comes a time when a man has to kill his own snakes.
~ T.D. Nutt, Serpens Abyss
Every dead body that is not exterminated, gets up and kills. The people it kills, get up and kill!
~ Dr. James Foster
The girl sleeping and the finisher, willing himself to finish her.Why didn't he finish her?Why couldn't he finish her?
~ Rick Yancey, The 5th Wave
People feared what they did not understand, and they without a doubt did not understand her. Those who believed they did least of all. She was something new.
~ G.S. Jennsen, Dissonance
Fear mankind most when he fights with a consuming passion for what he perceives to be true." ~ Demo Cratia.
~ Farah Evers, Origins
Well one tiny poisonous spider can kill a very large man if it bites him in the right place.
~ Michael Monroe, Afterlife
Twice the size of a full grown man, with four muscular arms, it was his worst nightmare on steroids. -The Hyperscape Project
~ Donald Swan
I am not capable of love. - Felix
~ Donna Galanti, The Dark Inside
I am not afraid of the possibility of finding intelligent life in the universe, I am afraid of the possibility of them finding us
~ Peyton J Glenn
No matter how many times I've thought that the worst is behind us, something else always happens to remind me that the worst is yet to come.
~ Siobhan Davis, Destiny Rising
She could and had faced an armed laser in the hands of a mad mutant mercenary with less fear than she faced such unswerving emotion...
~ J.D. Robb, Immortal in Death
Why is your heart racing Tris?
~ Veronica Roth, Divergent