Fear Quote by Iris Murdoch

“His eyes looked sad and cautious.  I recognized the grief, but there seemed to be more to it, a depth beyond what even I…

— Tyra Lynn

“When you moved, I felt squeezed with a wild infatuation and protectiveness. We are one. Nothing, not even death, can change that.”

— Suzanne Finnamore

“And it felt like every time I turned around, somebody was either dying or walking out.”

— Tony Parsons

“I experienced a form of grief so intense and pure I thought it would kill me.”

— William Boyd

“and the thought of relieving my mourning, even slightly, for a moment filled me with a kind of fear.”

— Ahdaf Soueif

“i felt ashamed. i stared down at the ground and stood very still and very quietly.”

— Ellen Kennedy

“And the feeling I had was not of wanting her so much as being surrounded by her, blundering inside her life without having moved.”

— Jennifer Egan

“Sometimes, when you'd least expect it, the grief would chop your legs out from under you.”

— Emmy Laybourne

“What terrified her most was the thought that staying alive had become nothing more than a habit. That was it. A reflex action without…

— Jonathan Maberry

“I could feel their grief as if it were a beast holding us down.”

— Belinda Jeffrey

“crying by this time, but so was I, and I wasn’t ashamed. Grief had a way of sneaking up on a person. It lay…

— Linda Barrett

“I understood very little of what was going on, and I felt as though only dying would release me from the overwhelming sense of…

— Kay Redfield Jamison