Fear Quote by George Orwell

“He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes…

— George Orwell

“He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes…

— George Orwell

“He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes…

— George Orwell

It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body... On the…

— George Orwell

“And it is the same, he perceived, in all seemingly heroic or tragic situations. On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking…

— George Orwell

“No matter how fierce was the passion that gripped him, the fact is he was paralyzed, transfixed by the contemplation of his own past.…

— Natsume Sōseki

“He felt for the first moment as a man feels when, having suddenly received a violent blow from behind, he turns round, angry and…

— Leo Tolstoy

“My body is in a state of perpetual contradiction, alive with anticipation and simultaneously dead of all other emotion.”

— Alex Morel

“...a great part of what unmanned me was distress at the destruction of my own body. It was odd to realise that I had…

— Robin Hobb

“fortunately or unfortunately, man is so constituted that he can suffer long and much, both morally and physically, without dying; that it is therefore…

— Victor Hugo

“Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the…

— George Orwell

“Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes, no heroes, he thought over…

— George Orwell