Fear Quotes

"There is a thought which I am afraid to utter even internally, but you have uttered it."

"We are the dead."

"If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—forever."

"Do not imagine that you will save yourself, Winston. You did know you were committing suicide when you entered this room."

"Do not trust her. She is not one of us."

"There is no escape. We are trapped."

"We have been waiting for you. It was all arranged."

"She should have been shot years ago."

"If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face—for ever."

"Do you understand that no one whom we bring here ever leaves our hands alive?"

"I would like to free you from fear."

"Believe me, Hester, there are none so agonized with inward torment."

"Some think the Pequod's crew are all charms and conjurers."

"I am afraid I am a coward."

"Sorrow and fear are apt to shake us from our balance"

"As to me, I am tormented by my sensations"

"There is an evil hour to every human creature"

"I am afraid of him. There is something in the shape of his fingers that I hate."

"My pulse stopped: my heart stood still; my stretched arm was paralysed."

"The walls are closing in on me slowly."

"The whiteness of the whale symbolizes the terror of the unknown."

"Art thou like the Black Man that haunts the forest round about us?"

"There are certain seasons when you are afraid of yourself."

"I am almost afraid of asking what you thought of me."

"It is the whiteness of the whale that wrings me."

"Thou and I, Hester, never knew what exquisite torture it is to know an enemy."

"Art thou like the Black Man that haunts the forest round about us?"

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."

"I was experiencing an ordeal: a hand of fiery iron grasped my vitals. Terrible moment: full of struggle, blackness, burning!"