Fear Quotes

I know what it feels like to be hunted.

A rat’s private life, a rat’s thoughts and conversation, may be far more wholesome than a rabbit’s. Yet a thousand rabbits might play on the floor of my bedroom all night, and be hanged to them, while if a single rat so much as scratched beneath the flooring I would lose all sleep.

The way you overcome shyness is to become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.

For God’s sake, go down to reception and get rid of a lunatic who’s down there. He says he’s got a machine for seeing by wireless! Watch him – he may have a razor on him. (Editor, responding to a visit from John Logie Baird, inventor of a prototype television apparatus, 1925)

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

We speak of hope; but is not hope only a more gentle name for fear?

Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

There is no problem so big that it cannot be run away from. (“Peanuts”)

I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them.

Comedy is the main weapon we have against “The Horror.” With it we can strike a blow at death itself. Or, at least, poke a hole in the pretentious notion that there is something dignified about it.