Fear Quotes - Page 60

... the logic of supernatural horror [is] a logic founded on fear, a logic whose sole principle states: "Existence equals nightmare." Unless life is a dream, nothing makes sense. For as a reality, it is a rank failure..

Thomas Ligotti

He couldn't have pulled back the lock, they couldn't simply have climbed over the sides of the stall in all of three seconds, because those weren't the rules of the game.Theirs was the intoxication of the hunter, his the terror of the prey. Once they had actually captured him the fun was over and the punishment more of a duty that had to be carried out. If he gave up too early there was a chance they would put more of their energy into the punishment instead of the hunt.

John Ajvide Lindqvist

Scared people did scary things sometimes,

Michael Grant

Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.

Truman Capote

Stare at the dark too long and you will eventually see what isn’t there.

Cameron Jace

Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you.

Catherine Anderson

Those who speak of progression but are afraid of change are self-repressed and therefore unable to reach any further than their eyes can already see.

Criss Jami

We never know how high we areTill we are called to rise;And then, if we are true to plan,Our statures touch the skies.The heroism we reciteWould be a daily thing,Did not ourselves the cubits warpFor fear to be a king.

Emily Dickinson

Fear can't hurt you. When it washes over you, give it no power. it's a snake with no venom.

Maureen Johnson

No churchmen, I notice. Of course not. What use have they for a world without irrational fear?

Jonathan L. Howard

All Welsh knew was that he was scared shitless, and at the same time was afflicted with a choking gorge of anger that any social coercion existed in the world which could force him to be here.

James Jones

The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.

Victor Hugo

What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the pig mask, but that the ordinary world had split open for a moment to reveal some possibility never previously considered.

Peter Straub

We stand, when we are young, on the sunny slope among the pines, and look across an unknown country to the mountains. There are clouds, but they are edged with light. We do not fear as we dip into the valley; we do not fear the clouds. Thank God for the splendid fearlessness of youth. And as for older travelers whom the Lord has led over the hill and the dale, they have not been given the spirit of fear. They think of the way they have come since they stood on that bright hillside, and their word is always this: There are reasons and reasons for hope and for happiness, and never one for fear.

Amy Carmichael

What makes you so dare to challenge me, kiddo?It ain't about you, Sir. I just wanna confront my fear.

Toba Beta

Her arms groped forward to guide her when her tears blocked her vision in darkness. Then she couldn't run any more. She sank to her knees and began to cry in her terror. She wanted Gary.She suddenly felt strong arms around her. She bent her head to bury it in Gary's shoulder, trembling in the darkness.Whimpering like a small animal in a trap, she pushed herself closer to him and said in a choked voice, "I'm so frightened!""I know, my love," the voice said. "I'm so sorry you were hurt."She felt herself being pulled up to him, his grip around her tight. It was a strange feeling in this pitch-black hallway, where not even the light of the moon cast any illumination. The lips she touched were cold and yet they responded to her with an unusual warmth. His hands massaged her back. Something, Melanie thought, was wrong with that. The hands were too smooth, not like a plastered wrist would feel."Gary?" she asked, backing away. She didn't trust what she couldn't see."My love," the voice whispered, "there is no need to fear now. I shall protect you from those who mean you harm.

Clare McNally

I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.

Daniel Boone

Fear is an inhibitor that has kept more people from fulfilling their destiny than any other one emotion.

Tim LaHaye

I think fear is normal, Cade. Just don't let it win.

Lisa Schroeder

Now everything was changed. She walked about with cautious, anxious steps, staring constantly at the ground, on the lookout for things that crept and crawled. Bushes were dangerous, and so were sea grass and rain water. There were little animals everywhere. They could turn up between the covers of a book, flattened and dead, for the fact is that creeping animals, tattered animals, and dead animals are with us all our lives, from beginning to end. Grandmother tried to discuss this with her, to no avail. Irrational terror is so hard to deal with. [p. 136]

Tove Jansson

Before one may scare the plain people one must first have a firm understanding of the bugaboos that most facilely alarm them. One must study the schemes that have served to do it in the past, and one must study very carefully the technic of the chief current professionals.

H.L. Mencken

Hannah expected this to make her sob even more, but instead she found her tears drying up and her tummy growing warm. How dare they? How dare they do this to little girls? She understood now why her parents go so angry when they saw the result of bombers in the white hot streets of the Middle East, why men and women wailed in anger as well as grief as they lifted the limp bodies of children from the rubble. How dare they? No, she wasn't going to die like this, wrapped up like some helpless baby.

Stephen M. Irwin

If you can't sublimate your fear of mortality into sex with your best friend, what's it there for?

Justin Taylor

The purity of intention repels fear.

Toba Beta

Fear and love were sometimes the same thing both necessary unavoidable. Now she understood that it was okay to bleed if you know how to heal.

Susan Wiggs

... there's fear that keeps you safe, and fear that warns you, and then there's fear of another sort. The kind that makes you turn on your friends, that irises the world down to one frightened person.

Margaret Ronald

I only fear danger where I want to fear it.

Franz Kafka

We cannot play ostrich. Democracy just cannot flourish amid fear. Liberty cannot bloom amid hate. Justice cannot take root amid rage. America must get to work. In the chill climate in which we live, we must go against the prevailing wind. We must dissent from the indifference. We must dissent from the apathy. We must dissent from the fear, the hatred and the mistrust. We must dissent from a nation that has buried its head in the sand, waiting in vain for the needs of its poor, its elderly, and its sick to disappear and just blow away. We must dissent from a government that has left its young without jobs, education or hope. We must dissent from the poverty of vision and the absence of moral leadership. We must dissent because America can do better, because America has no choice but to do better.

Thurgood Marshall

Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept them as real, and watches the approach of doom without any sense of apprehension. The man who looks at the onrushing tidal wave, the descending avalanche, or the spinning funnel of the tornado, yet makes no attempt to flee, is not necessarily paralyzed with fright or resigned to an unavoidable fate. He may simply be unable to believe that the message of his eyes concerns him personally. It is all happening to somebody else.

Arthur C. Clarke

the one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything.

Charles de Foucauld

At a time I used to think that in a world without guards people would walk differently from the way we do in our country. Where people are allowed to think and write differently, I thought, they will also walk differently.

Herta Müller

Many people believe they know true darkness, but until it has been experienced it cannot be imagined. Without even a flicker of light, the mind begins to play tricks. There is a constant feeling that there is a wall before you, that you must stop. The eyes open as wide as they can, hungry for light. The only thing that helps is to shut them tight.

Joseph R. Lallo

Fear and doubt are major stampeders.

Karen Marie Moning

Fear could paralyse. Action was the antidote.

Ken Follett

You can't live in dread of something for long without beginning to crave it.

Glen Duncan

When you have fear then the world is a big place. When you have courage then the world shrinks.

Stephen Richards

My life was pouring out my feet and seeping through cracks in the floor; yet still I knelt and did not move, for fear she'd let go my hands. Let me stay, I wanted to beg: Please don't make me go.

Sonya Hartnett

Being brave doesn't mean you're not scared.

Neil Gaiman

And we've read scary books and watched scary movies and TV shows together. He's met monsters, ghouls, and demons on the page and on the screen. There's nothing like watching Anaconda with your best friend or lying in bed next to your mother reading Roald Dahl, because that way you get to explore dark stuff safely. You get to laugh with it, to step out on the vampire's dance floor and take him for a spin, and then step back into your life. When you make friends with fear, it can't rule you.

Anne Lamott

I'm frightend. Of us. I want to go home. O God I to go home." "It's was an accident," said Piggy stubbornly,"and that's that." He touched Ralph's bare shoulder and Ralph shuddered at the human contact.

William Golding

This guy sounds like all the bad guys from the last ten years of murder movies all rolled into one. Like he might be the worst of those books you have there. If he was real, and really like that, then I should arrest him, right?” Matthew asked, hoping he could show the boy that he would protect him, and he could tell him the truth now.“No, Deputy. Because he is real, and he is really like that, and you should run.

Dennis Sharpe

Make them fear you. Machiavelli said it nearly six hundred years ago, but it's still true. Every ruler should strive for his people to love him. But if they cannot love you, then make them fear you. Love is better, but fear will do the job.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Only the cruelest hunters set their traps with terror and trepidation.

Nenia Campbell

Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless.

Chuck Palahniuk

His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin.

George R.R. Martin

He wore his fear on his skin for everyone to see.

Richard Kadrey

Of all the questions I have asked my readers this is the most important: What would you do if you weren't afraid? When you finally give wings to that answer then you have found your life's purpose.

Shannon L. Alder

Don't be afraid of the dark. Shine!

Vera Nazarian

When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.

Jerzy Kosiński

Fear is a scavenger who feeds on the future; on what may be and what is possible, extending down the line of our lives.

John Scalzi

As we watched the soldiers and the Rambo disappear I remember feeling preternaturally calm. This is what deep, deep fear does to you. It turns you into a state of unfeeling.

Lloyd Jones

In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.

Ray Bradbury

Fear sits and smiles and is predatory, immobile and silent and serene; an observer who conserves his energy and is content to wait.

John Scalzi

Most of the time, if you treat people right, you don't have to be afraid of them.

Kathy Kelly

Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.

Keith Ablow

Sometimes, you feel like being watched from behind by someone.When you turned, it's just nothing, nobody, none,or only someone who's daydreaming and staring right through you.

Toba Beta

I’m always scared to death that I won’t do a role justice. But fear can be a great motivator.

Hilary Swank

We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.

Jerry Pournelle

This is how best to effect change. If you reiterate the same fears and the same sensible measures with proper augmentation enough times, even difficult decisions will begin to seem like the only justifiable solutions.

Olli Jalonen

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