Quotes About Fear

Everyday things became so strange, when you were waiting for something dreadful to happen. Her heart was pounding fast.

One of the children hanging about Pointed at the whole dreadful heap and smiled… There is something terrible about a child. Charlotte Mew In Nunhead Cemetery

She was a careless, fearless girl… Kindhearted in the main, But somewhat heedless with her tongue, And apt at causing pain.

Los recuerdos se erguían para morderlo, como si hubiera pisado un nido de serpientes dormidas.

am not going to let myself be beaten to the ground by the dread of what may happen.

The thing he'd been trying for years not to look at, and not to name, had stepped out of the dark corner where he'd attempted to keep it, and Strike knew there was no longer any way of denying its existence.

reasons Tassel was too cowardly to represent

a fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.

Strike had felt a variety of emotions which included guilt, gratitude, confusion, fear, rage, resentment and loneliness, but he couldn't remember feeling lucky. "Lucky" would have been the bomb not detonating. "Lucky" would have meant still having both his legs. "Lucky" was what people who couldn't bear to contemplate horrors needed to hear maimed and terrorized survivors call themselves.

His father's a raging alcoholic and his friends – well, people of that age, they're all scared of what's happened, I think. Anyway, the doctors want him kept quiet just now.

Sweet is the swamp with its secrets, Until we meet a snake… Emily Dickinson XIX: A Snake

I am not going to let myself be beaten to the ground by the dread of what may happen.

Nothing says hell has to be fire.

Yes. Childhood is the most dangerous place of all. If we had to live there forever, we wouldn't last very long.

But I told my grandmother, and she listened, and then she said, "Don't ever tell this story to anybody else. If you tell this story to anybody else, something terrible will happen. Something terrible will happen to our family." And then she had a lot to do. (174)

Hell could be like this. ...It could be cold enough to sear the skin from your bones.

My object is to drive fear out of the world. Fear is the jailer of the mind. Christianity, superstition—that is to say, the supernatural—makes every brain a prison and every soul a convict

To be brave, by definition, one has first to be afraid.

Ah, love, this is fear. This is fear and syllables and the beginnings of beauty.

From galactic silence protect us.

When it is bad… I go into the night and the night eats me

We asked the captain what course of action he proposed to take toward a beast so large, terrifying, and unpredictable. He hesitated to answer, and then said judiciously: "I think I shall praise it."

fear is excitement without breath

John Steinbeck wrote in East of Eden: "The greatest terror a child can have is that he is not loved, and rejection is the hell he fears.