Fear Quote by William Gaddis

“He didn’t know how one’s flesh prickled when fear took hold. He didn’t understand what it was like to gaze into the future and…

— Lorraine Heath

“His fear came from needing her. It was the danger to her life that frightened him.”

— Anne Osterlund

“. . . there was nothing yet to fear, and so he passed it off as joy, as heart-pounding, pulse-quaking joy. Not as a…

— Laurie Frankel

“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

“He wanted me more than he'd ever wanted anything in his life, but something was holding him back. Something that frightened him.”

— Denise Grover Swank

“But all of these hours were strained by fear, as if fear were a brooding specter, or a strange, lost bird trapped in our…

— André Aciman

“He insists that I need nothing more than to let myself be carried away- and that even my greatest fears are unfounded.”

— Paulo Coelho

“He realized now that to be afraid of this death he was staring at with animal terror meant to be afraid of life. Fear…

— Albert Camus

“inevitability carried him forward, and fear held him back.”

— Larry Enright

“Now his imagination spun about the hand as about the edge of a vortex; but still he made no effort to draw nearer. He…

— Edith Wharton

“Underneath the longing and the fever of anticipation; there was a need. He needed her to do this to him, for him . It…

— Alex Morgan

“He had often felt anguish before, and it would be no wonder if it came at such a moment, when he was preparing, the…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky