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153. “Him who trembles before the flame and the flood, And the winds that blow through the starry ways, Let the starry winds and the flame and the flood Cover over and hide, for he has no part With the lonely, majestical multitude.”
William Butler Yeats
Cosmic Power, Fearful Soul, Majestic Universe, Flame, Winds, Fear
159. “The perfection of her success, decidedly, was like some strange shore to which she had been noiselessly ferried and where, with a start, she found herself quaking at the thought that the boat might have put off again and left her.” Henry James Accomplishment, Uncertainty, Isolation, Success, Reflection, Fear
161. “The image of the “presence,” whatever it was, waiting there for him to go – this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves as when he stopped short of the point at which certainty would have come to him. For, with all his resolution, or more exactly with all his dread, he did stop short – he hung back from really seeing. The risk was too great and his fear too definite: it took at this moment an awful specific form.” Henry James Paralyzing Fear, Dreadful Presence, Fear, Presence, Dreadful, Paralyzing
165. “I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me; all day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. Clouds pass and disperse. Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables? Is it for such I agitate my heart?” Sylvia Plath Fear, Darkness, Introspection, Love, Emotional Depth, Vulnerability
169. “I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I wake up in shuddering horror and fear of the cement tunnels leading down to the shock room, to comfort me with an assurance that no psychiatrist can quite manage to convey.” Sylvia Plath Loneliness, Love, Desperation, Fear, Comfort, Impossible
174. “What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination. When the sky outside is merely pink, and the rooftops merely black: that photographic mind which paradoxically tells the truth, but the worthless truth, about the world. It is that synthesizing spirit, that “shaping” force, which prolifically sprouts and makes up its own worlds with more inventiveness than God which I desire. If I sit still and don’t do anything, the world goes on beating like a slack drum, without meaning.” Sylvia Plath Imagination Death, Shaping Force, Creative Spirit, Imagination, Fear, World
178. “Nobody knew what form of intimidation Mr. Radley employed to keep Boo out of sight, but Jem figured that Mr. Radley kept him chained to the bed most of the time. Atticus said no, it wasn’t that sort of thing, that there were other ways of making people into ghosts.” Harper Lee Isolation, Fear, Control, Mystery, Societal Pressure, Haunting
180. “It’s just that I’m so afraid of making a mess of being married to the wrong man – the wrong kind for me, I mean. I’m no different from any other woman, and the wrong man would turn me into a screamin’ shrew in record time.” Harper Lee Fear, Relationships, Self-doubt, Happiness, Independence, Self-preservation
Fear Quotes by Famous Authors
153. “Him who trembles before the flame and the flood, And the winds that blow through the starry ways, Let the starry winds and the flame and the flood Cover over and hide, for he has no part With the lonely, majestical multitude.”
William Butler Yeats Cosmic Power, Fearful Soul, Majestic Universe, Flame, Winds, Fear
159. “The perfection of her success, decidedly, was like some strange shore to which she had been noiselessly ferried and where, with a start, she found herself quaking at the thought that the boat might have put off again and left her.”
Henry James Accomplishment, Uncertainty, Isolation, Success, Reflection, Fear
161. “The image of the “presence,” whatever it was, waiting there for him to go – this image had not yet been so concrete for his nerves as when he stopped short of the point at which certainty would have come to him. For, with all his resolution, or more exactly with all his dread, he did stop short – he hung back from really seeing. The risk was too great and his fear too definite: it took at this moment an awful specific form.”
Henry James Paralyzing Fear, Dreadful Presence, Fear, Presence, Dreadful, Paralyzing
165. “I am terrified by this dark thing that sleeps in me; all day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. Clouds pass and disperse. Are those the faces of love, those pale irretrievables? Is it for such I agitate my heart?”
Sylvia Plath Fear, Darkness, Introspection, Love, Emotional Depth, Vulnerability
169. “I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I wake up in shuddering horror and fear of the cement tunnels leading down to the shock room, to comfort me with an assurance that no psychiatrist can quite manage to convey.”
Sylvia Plath Loneliness, Love, Desperation, Fear, Comfort, Impossible
174. “What I fear most, I think, is the death of the imagination. When the sky outside is merely pink, and the rooftops merely black: that photographic mind which paradoxically tells the truth, but the worthless truth, about the world. It is that synthesizing spirit, that “shaping” force, which prolifically sprouts and makes up its own worlds with more inventiveness than God which I desire. If I sit still and don’t do anything, the world goes on beating like a slack drum, without meaning.”
Sylvia Plath Imagination Death, Shaping Force, Creative Spirit, Imagination, Fear, World
178. “Nobody knew what form of intimidation Mr. Radley employed to keep Boo out of sight, but Jem figured that Mr. Radley kept him chained to the bed most of the time. Atticus said no, it wasn’t that sort of thing, that there were other ways of making people into ghosts.”
Harper Lee Isolation, Fear, Control, Mystery, Societal Pressure, Haunting
180. “It’s just that I’m so afraid of making a mess of being married to the wrong man – the wrong kind for me, I mean. I’m no different from any other woman, and the wrong man would turn me into a screamin’ shrew in record time.”
Harper Lee Fear, Relationships, Self-doubt, Happiness, Independence, Self-preservation
