Fear Quote by Norman Swan

I know what it's like to feel the fear of battle. To be constantly looking over my shoulder and thinking every sound might be…

— Clive Lewis

Sometimes, in the trenches, you get the sense of something, ancient. One trench we held, it had skulls in the side, embedded, like mushrooms.…

— Pat Barker

I am going to live and die in the trenches.

— Isaac Wright Jr

If I was a soldier going to war, I'd be pretty scared the night before a battle. It's a scary thing. And I want…

— George R. R. Martin

“In the trenches between the burial mounds hundreds of dead soldiers sat side by side with their heads against the torn earth, as if…

— J G Ballard

I've always had the fantasy of doing a boot camp for a military film, at some point. I've always wanted to know what the…

— Seth Gabel

I remember when I was shot down in that war. I remember how terrified I was. And it made me feel close to my…

— George H. W. Bush

I've never been to war, and I would never presume to fully understand the horrors that that kind of experience can impart.

— Rupert Friend

The thing that strikes you most about being a soldier in a war zone and in action to the small extent that I was,…

— Mark Helprin

“The glamorous side is all they want to hear, the real part of war isn’t believed or [is] listened to with a bored feeling,…

— Dan Levin

But even as the fear racks my body, it soothes me, comforts me. Soldiers who get washed away in a rush of adrenaline don't…

— Hiroshi Sakurazaka

Human nerves quickly get accustomed to the most unusual conditions and circumstances and I noticed that quite a number of men actually fell asleep…

— Fritz Kreisler