Fear Quote by Graham Swift Download Open image ““He was distrustful of happiness as some people fear heights or open spaces.”” — Graham Swift ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fear Happiness Open space
“In fact, I didn't like heights, closed-in places, places that were too open - give me a phobia and I embraced it enthusiastically.” — Kristina Douglas Copy Share Image
“He didn’t seem to understand that a person can function in the space between happy and unhappy. That space offered a level of calm… — Kendra Elliot Copy Share Image
“He felt that his career was leading him to a point where he would become dependent on success, and that frightened him, because he… — Paulo Coelho's Copy Share Image
“He looked at the people walking about and envied them because they had friends; sometimes his envy turned to hatred because they were happy… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“It was hard to trust in happiness, coming from another person, but . . . there was so much of it, around him.” — Laura Florand Copy Share Image
“He was feeling happy. It was one of the strange discoveries a man can make that life, however you lead it, contains moments of… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“So afraid to go outside, to be happy, to be with other people, because they do not understand what it is like.” — Samantha Schutz Copy Share Image
“He was alone in the doorway, digging the street. Bitterness, recriminations, advice, morality, sadness--everything was behind him, and ahead of him was the ragged… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
“He composed himself inwardly. Sparing the world his awkwardness, hiding vulnerability. Preserving his pride.” — Julie Anne Long Copy Share Image
“He didn’t know how one’s flesh prickled when fear took hold. He didn’t understand what it was like to gaze into the future and… — Lorraine Heath Copy Share Image
“And his principal complaint about other human beings was that they so seldom noticed it when they were happy. If this isn't nice, I… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff. — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
The idea of stopping is not unmeaningful to me. I think there might be a time when, in theory at least, you'd say, 'Well… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
My upbringing was absolutely not the archetypal writer's upbringing. Even, arguably, the opposite. — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
As a novelist, I suppose I can say that I'm highly articulate. But I know, as a person, in other ways, I'm not always… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
“There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t progress, it doesn’t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away. It’s progress… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
“And books, she knew by then, were one of the necessities, the rocks of her life.” — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It's really done by feel. It's one… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
The novel that's contemporary in the sense of being wholly 'of now' is an impossibility, if only because novels may take years to write,… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
“But this would have been to ignore the young man of only twenty-five, who, for all his, by now, increasing and debilitating proneness to… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope.… — Graham Swift Copy Share Image
This may sound strange, but although I feel like I know everything about my characters, the brand of shampoo they use, how many cavities… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“That horrible stinging sensation returned, the muscles behind my eyes straining as the first tear began to fall. “I’m scared, too. For eighteen months… — Devon Ashley Copy Share Image
“...Often that which most we fear births the resolve that spurs us on to altitudes we could not have achieved, had we continued walking… — M.T. Anderson Copy Share Image
“Anything that you find yourself worrying about regularly may find you suddenly wanting unrealistic changes.” — Nagisa Tatsumi Copy Share Image
“We all know how the thing we secretly fear is not a secret at all but the open and eternal thing that predicts its… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
When you're scared - and I mean really scared, not just hearing a noise in the night, or standing toe to toe with someone… — Alexander Gordon Smith Copy Share Image
“I had nowhere to go and did not wish to be seen by anyone for fear they would recognize my sadness and so for… — Patrick deWitt Copy Share Image
It's easier to change a law than an age-old mentality. Deep down, many prejudices, many hostilities, many fears persist. But if we take a… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
“Snip off the little worries and expressions of worry” like little branches atop a tall tree.28 If you are truly worried, sharing your concerns… — Tim Sanders Copy Share Image
“Fear and desire for pleasure. Aggressiveness comes out of fear, predominantly, and sexuality predominantly out of the other. But they mix in the middle.… — Marilyn French Copy Share Image
“Yes, the issue was courage. It always had been, even as a kid. Things scared him. He couldn't help it. Noise scared him, dark… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
