Familiar Quote by William Shakespeare

I have almost forgot the taste of fears. The time has been, my senses would have cooled To hear a night-shriek, and my fell…

— William Shakespeare

“Now here it was after all, preserved by some considerate hand with varnisch and wax. Preserved along with it, like stale air in an…

— John Knowles

In horror of death, I took to the mountains - again and again I meditated on the uncertainty of the hour of death, capturing…

— Milarepa

Fear overcame me; I dared no advance, dreading a thousand nameless evils that made me tremble, although I was unable to define them.

— Mary Shelley -Frankenstein

It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It…

— Elizabeth Kostova

“Fear is an unavoidable element of the mortal condition. Creation in all its ravishing beauty, with its infinite baroque embellishments and subtle charms, with…

— Dean Koontz

When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high-piled books, in charactery, Hold…

— John Keats

Is it possible to be nostalgic about old fears?

— Peter Ackroyd

“Fear has a lot of flavors and textures. There's a sharp, silver fear that runs like lightning through your arms and legs, galvanizes you…

— Jim Butcher

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“until the next time, when, in the grip of the nightmare, all fears will be remembered.”

— Stephen King

“I knew then the taste of true fear. It tastes of dark places deep in your stomach and holds you by the neck.”

— Franny Billingsley