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Fear Quotes


"Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue."


"While we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness the weight of that silence will choke us."



"Thalia had been turned into a pine tree when she was 12. Me... well, i was doing my best not to follow her example. I had nightmares about what Poseidon might turn me into if i were ever in the verge of death-plankton, maybe. Or a floating patch of kelp."


"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."


"We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all."



"The words get easier the moment you stop fearing them."


"The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead."


"But there was something in the air, a watchfulness laced with a charge of malice. The eyes observing us were invisible, but were observing us, nonetheless."


"We fear our passage will be attended with difficulties by reason of the great number of passingers which are one hundred and eighty and upwards in number."


"I try not to laugh too loud, afraid a bark-like noise will be mistaken by any great whites lurking in the area as the distress call of a juvenile seal."


"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."


"When it comes to terror, reality's got nothing on the power of the imagination."



"The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then."


"It's not easy to get close to anyone.... Everyone's afraid of everybody else.... maybe because we're all afraid of ourselves."


"A fear of the unknown: what was that called?Worse yet: a fear of the known."


"I think-the hero observes that nothing is so frightening as a labyrinth with no center."


"I begin to wonder if David was like me. Seeing monsters everywhere and realizing there aren't enough slingshots in the world to get rid of them."



"You have the right to remain silent,' the big cop said in his robot's voice. 'If you do not choose to remain silent, anything you say may be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. I'm going to kill you. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you. Do you understand your rights as I have explained them to you?"


"No one is born with fear: we learn it, create it, and perpetuate it. Therefore, fear's biggest secret is we also control it."


"Most people would die sooner than think in fact they do."
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