Quotes About Fear

So many think we must share the same beliefs to get along. In my experience, sharing the same fear is a far more effective strategy.

Sometimes fear is like that: It leaves you with nothing but the desire for it to be done.

Devouring lives by the dozen, from the innocent to the not-so-innocent. It hardly mattered to him. He took, because destroying others was the only time he wasn't afraid.

My family's loud. Not big, but definitely demonstrative. My father still grabs my mother around the waist and tries to lure her into dark corners. As an adult, I appreciate their relationship. As a kid...Hell, we were scared to death not to announce ourselves before walking down a darkened hall.

Plans give you a list of tasks to keep you from drowning in your own fear. Plans give you a feeling of control, even if it's just an illusion at the time.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you.

Je ne veux plus faire de cauchemars. Je ne veux plus chercher à atteindre une petite fille que je ne peux pas sauver. Le monde est cruel. Notre boulot est sans espoir. Je ne sais même plus comment aimer. J'ai juste besoin de haïr.

She walked the edge of the anxiety attack, feeling the shakes and knowing that she either found solid footing now or plunged into the abyss.

when she'd feared they hadn't rescued a woman after all, but only a shell of one.

I'm filled with the age-old terror of making a mistake, looking foolish. How is it we all leave high school, but high school never leaves us? Bob

In a rural community of five thousand, where the number of guns probably did outnumber the total population...

Its okay, she found herself telling him. We get in. We find our evidence. We get out. And we end this thing. I'm not nervous, he said curtly. I'm angry. Because of your team? Nah. Because I'm terrified. Frankly, that pisses me off.

In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

The void in our society has been produced by the absence of values... we have no widespread belief in the value of participation. The rational system has made us fear standing out in any serious way.

Society is like a crowd in carnival costumes with everyone fearful that others will see through his disguise.

When the enemy has no face, society will invent one.

Anti-utopianism continues to suffuse our culture...Today few imagine that society can be fundamentally improved, and those who do are seen as at best deluded, at worst threatening.

I have always thought that if we began for one moment to say what we thought, society would collapse.

Imagine how wicked society would be if the fear of God and the fear of civil law were both completely removed.

Through my observations, it became clear that most of society's rules and customs are rooted in fear and superstition!

Will dissent be permitted? The answer to that question will determine whether the society is a free society or a fear society.

We have a society that's trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.

Every new refugee to a society, whether it's the United States or some other place, is subjected to fear. They are the new outsider population, the new other.