Fear Quotes

"I felt as if an awful charm was framing round and gathering over me."

"I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous."

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

"The Parsee—the Parsee!"

"I am a coward with respect to this one thing."

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

"Come away, mother! Come away, or yonder old Black Man will catch you!"

"I don't think I like being at the mercy of the gods anymore."

"Whatever I do, he still looks at me as though I were his enemy."

"I feel towards you as the Devil himself might"

"There is a fatality, a feeling as if I had been played upon by the Devil"

"Art thou not afraid of nightmares and hideous dreams?"

"I was always afraid of losing you"

"The night is dark and I am far from home"

"What is that unfathomable malice that has rankled in him so!"

"It was the whiteness of the whale that appalled me"

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."

"My pulse stopped; my heart stood still"

"I pass my life miserably, almost in hiding"

"O Miss, it was so dreadful, so very dreadful"

"I am afraid of him now."

"The basis of optimism is sheer terror."

"I was experiencing an ordeal: I felt as though I stood on the edge of a precipice."

"I shall be strange and distant, and cool, if you mention his name"

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

"Darkness had closed in upon them."

"There is a rope wound around me."

"I feel as a prisoner in his own ship."

"How tragic it all is! Ugliness and old age!"

"I am constitutionally nervous. I cannot bear being left alone."