Fear Quote by Salman Rushdie

“His prayer, addressed neither to God nor saint, began with a shiver, as the chilly morning breeze crept through the chink of the carriage…

— James Joyce

“...he seemed to grasp a deep understanding of the unfolding drama in which he had been caught. He seemed to understand something that few…

— Gene Edwards

“He woke early the next morning. It was still cool, but he opened the window and, leaning on the ledge, looked down at the…

— Rupert Thomson

“Even years afterward I suffered from the tormenting fancy that the huge man, my father, the ultimate authority, would come almost for no reason…

— Franz Kafka

“Well, God has arrived. I met him on the 5.15 train ~ Keynes”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“...and of course if Andrew Keene had been on the downhill side of the Standpipe, he would have exited the world in no time.…

— Stephen King

“I was a witness of the execution at Horsemonger-lane this morning. ... I believe that a sight so inconceivably awful as the wickedness and…

— Charles Dickens

“He was fine; he, that orphan that foundling that outcast; he felt himself august and strong; he looked full in the face that society…

— Victor Hugo

“One evening we were exploring the Baths of Caracalla together, while debating the question of merit or demerit in human behaviour and its rewards…

— Hector Berlioz

“He visited the cathedral, and sat in its chilled light, pouring like water from above. He reminded himself that centuries ago men had built…

— Rachel Joyce

“He himself, he realized, had always been most abominably frightened, even at the height of his divine power, a frail god upon a rickety…

— Patrick White

“As it would be cruel to an Amazonian tribesman to fly him to London, put him down without explanation in Trafalgar Square and leave…

— J.I. Packer