Fear Quote by Christopher Isherwood

“The fear, as I analyze it in retrospect, was of being overwhelmed, of disintegrating under a pressure of reality greater than a mind, accustomed…

— Aldous Huxley

“There was a look of fear in his eyes, such as people have when they are suddenly awakened. His”

— Oscar Wilde

“Fear is insatiable, consuming everything its eyes behold, seeing itself in everything, compelled to turn upon itself and to destroy.”

— Foundation for Inner Peace

“What manner of man is this, or what manner of creature is it in the semblance of man? I feel the dread of this…

— Bram Stoker

“And I felt fear. Fear of that bleak horizon, fear of that destiny. I felt my soul shriveling, I felt it retreating, and I…

— Milan Kundera

“But wasn’t that what fear was, at its essence? A direct conduit to the inner child, through all the armor and fortifications that we…

— Paul Antony Jones

“Now I will walk, as if I had an end in view, across the room, to the balcony under the awning. I see the…

— Virginia Woolf

“Anxiety is not fear, being afraid of this or that definite object, but the uncanny feeling of being afraid of nothing at all.”

— William Barrett

“Fearful of missing anything, he read on, filled with this anticipation which was half terror, of coming upon something which would touch him, not…

— William Gaddis

“The things we fear are almost always things which needn't be feared at all. They are creatures of our imagination.”

— Louise Dickinson Rich

“He did not care what the end would be, and in his lucid moments overvalued his indifference. The danger, when not seen, has the…

— Joseph Conrad

“Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears.”

— Arthur Miller