Quote by Marcus Sakey

“That was the thing about terror: it made rational people act irrationally.”

— Marcus Sakey

“Irrational terror is so hard to deal with.”

— Tove Jansson

“Being terrorized by living people seemed to have diminished his fear of the dead”

— Katherine Boo

“Maybe there was a very good reason for the primal terror that lies in every human heart, a forgotten understanding that there are some…

— Eyre Price

“It was an irrational fear. But when had fear ever been rational?”

— Veronica Rossi

“in most cases, however, the terror was extremely short-lived, as was the person experiencing the terror.”

— Douglas Adams

“The world divides into those who like the managed induction of terror and those who don’t. I do not find terror exciting. I find…

— David Foster Wallace

“Panic and terror aren't the only kinds of fear. There are deeper kinds, more terrible kinds. Apprehension and heavy, heavy dread.”

— Veronica Roth

“Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.”

— Joe Hill

“He’d discovered that most of the terrors that stalked the night weren’t really terrors at all. They were mostly like regular folks, just trying…

— A. Lee Martinez

“What’s more fearful than a psychotic killer? Someone with compassion and empathy but who still kills.”

— David Ai

“Even death itself is made wretched by terror and fear.”

— Bryant McGill