Fear Quote by Gabriel García Márquez

“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

“He learned that almost all of the world lived in colossal and constant fear.Afraid of everything-the police,officials and courts,the thugs,criminals and mafia;afraid of the…

— Tarun Tejpal

“Fear is an unavoidable element of the mortal condition. Creation in all its ravishing beauty, with its infinite baroque embellishments and subtle charms, with…

— Dean Koontz

“One of the most momentous, yet all but invisible, psychological changes in human history has been the intensification of a sense of insecurity and…

— Mark Elvin

“But the conquest of fear was what fascinated them. The continual ecstasy of vanquishing and the consciousness that no one could vanquish them was…

— Fydor Dostoyevsky

“[He] embodies this tension between civilization and its discontents, between the longing for a rational and cultured life and the bad luck and regrets…

— Daniel Menaker

“My work means that we have lived in different parts of the world and in each there has always been something to be afraid…

— Nadine Gordimer

“the basis of life is not a greed to exist, not a desire of any kind. It's fear, the fear which I saw here.…

— Philip K. Dick

“Many adults, in the indurated immobility of years, acquire a fear of places they have never been, even as they long for something different…

— Steven Erikson

“Fear was a wonderful propellant, and such a strong exponent of survival, even at the cost of others. Civility, it seemed, was the first…

— Andrew Barrett

“What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is…

— Frida Kahlo

“To be afraid is the condition of loving knowledge. Were I not dying of fear, I'd not know how to exist myself, I wouldn't…

— Hélène Cixous