Quotes About Fear

Sometimes Wayne felt that the world had been sliding apart beneath his feet for years. He was still waiting for it to pull him down, to bury him at last.

He didn't finish most of the stories he started anymore, couldn't bear to. He felt weak at the thought of reading another story about vampires having sex with other vampires. He tried to struggle through Lovecraft pastiches, but at the first painfully serious reference to the Elder Gods, he felt some important part of him going numb inside, the way a foot or a hand will go to sleep when the circulation is cut off. He feared the part of him being numbed was his soul.

All it took to turn a CD into a knife or a tape gun into a .45 was a little imagination, a little panic, and a lot of prejudice.

FEAR THICKENS TIME, TURNS IT slow and viscous.

When she wasn't painting, when she didn't have creative work to occupy her, she became aware of a growing physical apprehension, like she was standing beneath a crane that was holding a piano aloft; at any moment she felt that the cables could snap and all that weight could fall upon her with a fatal crash.

but God fears woman even more than He fears the devil -and is right to. She, with her power to bring life into the world, was truly made in the image of the Creator, not man...

Fear does not incline people to be moderate in their use of extreme tactics.

Estou tão cansada – falou. – De sentir medo. De não conseguir ajudar as pessoas.

The Gasmask Man

He would think God was a dyke librarian, and he would know the fear of her.

It's about the terror of an ordinary life" or "It's the story of a man shipwrecked in his own mind." But

They're not bad people, most of them. All they want is to be safe." "Isn't that always a permission slip for ugliness and cruelty?

Ma'am," Cline said, "I hid under dead bodies less cold than you." He glanced at Harper and

They're not bad people, most of them. All they want is to be safe." "Isn't that always a permission slip for ugliness and cruelty? All they want is to be safe, and they don't care who they have to destroy to stay that way. And

Wayne was certain dogs were as superstitious as humans. More, maybe.

In the West you will find men like that, fellows with gentle hands and hard, flat voices. Horses and dogs are instinctively loyal to such fellows, while yellowbellies and equivocators instinctively fear them. They make mediocre husbands, good officers of the law, and top-notch bank robbers.

Terror was a fire that held you trapped in the top floor of a burning building; the only way to escape it was to jump.

There are two infections running rampant. One is the Dragonscale, and the other is panic." "It

My father says Alamagüselum lives in the walls and drinks tears.

Harper smiled weakly for Renée, but felt unsteady and sick. She had to close her eyes to withstand the assault of the last thunderous verse—her Dragonscale crawled unpleasantly, and the only thought she could manage was, Stop, stop, stop—and when it was over, and the room erupted into stamping feet and whistles and applause, it was all she could do not to cry.

Horror was rooted in sympathy, after all, in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.

I was so scared of doing the wrong thing I hardly ever did the right thing." Vic

Come on now, Mr. Gallagher. We turned the sound off for you. The bad woman can't hurt you. We'll keep you safe from all her reason and science and compassion." "Just keep your back turned," Loren Hayes added. "If you look at her, there's the very real possibility you might catch a glimpse of empathy and it'll give you a sour tummy.

No one looks too closely at a librarian. People are afraid of going blind from the glare of so much compressed wisdom.