Fear Quotes

The thing that stops us and, when faced, the thing that frees us. Both sides explored here.

16356 quotes

O
"The real problem is I don't know how to do what I want to do."
Offred
O
"She doesn't talk much. Why should she? She's gone beyond words."
Offred
L
"I feel like I'm drowning in sand."
Laila
O
"Fear tastes like metal"
Offred
H
"I reckoned he would see me and tell everybody about me being on the raft."
Huckleberry Finn
O
"The eye is pale blue, ice-coloured, and blank."
Offred
B
"The guilty conscience knows no rest."
Briony Tallis
D
"Liesel's hands trembled as she held the book."
Death
R
"You think you know how this will all end, Mariam? You think you'll die for your children?"
Rasheed
L
"I'm scared of the process and the product."
Liesel Meminger
M
"It is a terrible thing to live in fear."
Marie-Laure
C
"Fear is the greatest tyrant of all."
Colonel Aureliano Buendía
D
"She was frightened, and she was guilty, and she couldn't believe that she wasn't being punished."
Death
D
"Liesel wanted to scream. At least if she screamed, she might wake up from this dark dream."
Death
D
"Hans Hubermann sat alone. He was guilty, and he was afraid."
Death
G
"What frightened him was not death, but the fear of being forgotten."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
L
"I have been afraid all my life."
Laila
D
"She didn't dare to look up, but she could feel them staring at her soul."
Death
L
"Sometimes I think my papa is afraid of words too."
Liesel Meminger
W
"Fear is the greatest weapon in any war."
Werner
G
"He really had been through death, but he had returned because he could not bear solitude."
Gabriel García Márquez (Narrator)
W
"Fear is the greatest betrayer of the soul."
Werner
S
"The difference between a man and a wolf is only what you believe"
Sergeant Major Reinhold
C
"I would have given almost anything to stop being afraid"
Circe
O
"A man's greatest fear is not death, but being forgotten."
Ove
C
"Men fear what they do not understand, and I was always misunderstood."
Circe
W
"Fear is a room in which I have lived my whole life."
Werner
W
"Fear is the only real enemy."
Werner
C
"He awoke at three in the morning, alarmed by the silence."
Colonel Aureliano Buendía
C
"I am not afraid of you, witch, I am afraid of myself"
Circe