Fear Quote by William Blake

“In that shrieking the inmost soul of human fear and agony clawed hopelessly and insanely at the ebony gates of oblivion.”

— H.P. Lovecraft

“But does it not take an evil mind to make a weapon out of a hammer? Would you see every good man stripped of…

— Michael James Ploof

“Rather, it was the manshape that held them there, their necks craned, torn between the promise of doom and the disappointment of the ordinary.”

— Colum McCann

“What is it? I remembered thinking in panic. What is it? Why did I want to follow this man? What was it about the…

— Rick Yancey

“It is always the anvil that breaks the hammer, never the other way about.”

— George Orwell

“Here was the heart of dread. It was not fearsome. It was fetid, noxious, hopeless. A deep and exhausting misery, a crevasse so bottomless…

— Laura Tillman

“That spike of terror went through me again. He was like a raptor, not cruel, not good or evil, only and utterly what he…

— Tana French

“thing. Something else had come aboard, something I’d never encountered. Something evil. Troubles I could handle. This dark, twisted thing was a whole other…

— Susan May

“Dare I hint at that worse time when, strung together somewhere in great black space, there was a flaming necklace, or ring, or starry…

— Charles Dickens

“Stand like a beaten anvil, when thy dream Is laid upon thee, golden from the fire. Flinch not, though heavily through that furnace-gleam The…

— Alfred Noyes

“YOU CLAWED YOUR WAY BACK FROM THE ABYSS. YOU SOUGHT TO REFORGE YOUR SPIRIT ON THE ANVIL OF YOUR WILL.”

— Phil Tucker

“Whatever voice spoke him was no demon but some old shed self that came yet from time to time in the name of sanity.…

— Cormac McCarthy