Fear Quotes

"We have beaten you, Winston. We have broken you up. Can you think of a single degradation that has not happened to you?"

"People are not afraid of things but of other people."

"I didn't mean to. I didn't mean to hurt him"

"When they find out what I done, they gonna hunt me"

"You're looking at a man who's frightened of his own shadow, who couldn't imagine his wife siding with him."

"I'm afraid of myself."

"I'll jus' take my things an' go off in the hills"

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

"Do not make the mistake of thinking that the Party is afraid of you."

"You are a slow learner, Winston. Sometimes I think you do not love Big Brother as well as you might."

"Room 101 holds what each man most fears. What is in Room 101?"

"There is no terror, Montag, in the bang and the whimper. There is only the silence"

"Men fear what they do not understand, and they destroy what they fear."

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you."

"He was sure he would be killed on the next mission, and he was going to volunteer for it."

"We suffer from our own darkness."

"S'pose they don't want to let me tend the rabbits"

"You ain't gonna leave me alone, are you George?"

"If the Party could thrust its hand into the past and say of this or that event, it never happened—that, surely, was more terrifying than mere torture."

"Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, but sooner or later they were bound to get you."

"Beast? There's no beast. How could there be a beast?"

"If we don't get rescued soon we'll... we'll be like the animals."

"We must be vigilant against our enemies"

"If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself."

"Do it to Julia! Do it to Julia! Not me!"

"You do not escape, ever. They catch you always, in the end."

"Maybe there is a beast... maybe it's always there, only we don't see it."

"The beast is a hunter."

"His was an impenetrable darkness."

"I saw him open his mouth wide—it gave him a weirdly voracious aspect."