Fear Quotes
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When did looming tests in school become scarier than the monster under your bed? Click on any fear quote below to see it in context and find out where it falls on Shmoop's pretentious scale. We'll give you details on who said it, when they said it, and in some cases, why on earth they thought it was okay to say it.

"All her hairSource: Porphyria's Lover | Author: Robert Browning
In one long yellow string I wound
Three times her little throat around"

"And another one gone, another one gone, another one bites the dust."Source: "Another One Bites the Dust" | Speaker: Queen

"and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw"Source: A Smile to Remember | Author: Charles Bukowski

"Does your dog bite?"Source: The Pink Panther Strikes Again | Speaker: Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau

"Everyone keeps saying that. It must be a conspiracy."Source: Jessica Jones | Speaker: Jessica Jones

"For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing."Source: The Plague | Author: Albert Camus

"have done it again. One year in every ten I manage it—"Source: Lady Lazarus | Author: Sylvia Plath

"He began to dance and his laughter became a bloodthirsty snarling."Source: Lord of the Flies | Author: William Golding

"I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti."Source: The Silence of the Lambs | Speaker: Dr. Hannibal Lecter

"I love you only because it's you the one I love"Source: I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You | Author: Pablo Neruda

"I never want to hear you say, I want it that way."Source: "I Want It That Way" | Speaker: Backstreet Boys

"I was so worried I baked a whole cake. And then I ate a whole cake."Source: Broad City | Speaker: Lincoln Rice

"Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops."Source: Arsenic and Old Lace | Speaker: Mortimer Brewster

"Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!"Source: The Wizard of Oz | Speaker: Dorothy, the Tin Man, and the Scarecrow

"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"Source: Monty Python's Flying Circus | Speaker: Cardinal Ximénez

"Nobody has ever escaped from Stalag 17. Not alive, anyway."Source: Stalag 17 | Speaker: Oberst Von Scherbach

"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."Source: 1965 TV Broadcast | Speaker: J. Robert Oppenheimer

"Our deepest fear is not that we are weak. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure."Source: 1994 Inaugural Address | Speaker: Nelson Mandela

"Private eyes. They're watching you. They see your every move."Source: "Private Eyes" | Speaker: Hall and Oates

"Sometimes being stuck inside my own head is so exhausting it makes me want to cry."Source: Girls | Speaker: Marnie Michaels

"The best thing about human beings is that they stack so neatly."Source: House of Cards | Speaker: Frank Underwood

"The life of man [is] solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short."Source: Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil | Author: Thomas Hobbes

"The neighbors' dog will not stop barking."Source: Another Reason Why I Don't Keep a Gun in the House | Author: Billy Collins

"The trouble with Eichmann was precisely that so many were like him…"Source: Eichmann in Jerusalem | Author: Hannah Arendt

"The world needs bad men. We keep the other bad men from the door."Source: True Detective | Speaker: Rust Cohle

"The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away."Source: Lord of the Flies | Author: William Golding

"This thing called love, I just can't handle it."Source: "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" | Speaker: Queen

"Watch the skies. Everywhere. Keep looking. Keep watching the skies."Source: The Thing from Another World | Speaker: Ned "Scotty" Scott

"We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do."Source: Lord of the Flies | Author: William Golding

"Would you be shocked if I put on something more comfortable?"Source: Hell's Angels | Speaker: Helen