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 animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."Source: Animal Farm | Author: George Orwell
"All her hairSource: Porphyria's Lover | Author: Robert Browning
In one long yellow string I wound
Three times her little throat around"
"All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain."Source: Blade Runner | Speaker: Roy Batty
"And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him."Source: Revelation 6:2-8 | Speaker: John The Revelator
"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."Source: Brave New World | Author: Aldous Huxley
"Dave, stop. Stop, will you? Stop, Dave. Will you stop, Dave? Stop, Dave. I'm afraid."Source: 2001: A Space Odyssey | Speaker: HAL 9000
"Errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous."Source: A Treatise of Human Nature | Author: David Hume
"First rule of Fight Club is... you do not talk about Fight Club."Source: Fight Club | Speaker: Tyler Durden
"For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing."Source: The Plague | Author: Albert Camus
"God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble."Source: Psalms 46:1-3 | Author: Author of Psalms
"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
"He who marches out of step hears another drum."Source: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | Author: Ken Kesey
"Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone."Source: "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" | Speaker: Pink Floyd
"Human beings can be awful cruel to one another."Source: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn | Author: Mark Twain
"I heard a Fly buzz — when I died"Source: I heard a Fly buzz — when I died | Author: Emily Dickinson
"I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!"Source: The Wizard of Oz | Speaker: The Wicked Witch of the West
"If I leave here tomorrow, would you still remember me?"Source: "Free Bird" | Speaker: Lynyrd Skynyrd
"Is a man who chooses the bad perhaps in some way better than a man who has the good imposed upon him?"Source: A Clockwork Orange | Author: Anthony Burgess
"It is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma."Source: BBC Radio Broadcast | Speaker: Winston Churchill
"It is much safer for a prince to be feared than loved."Source: The Prince | Author: Niccolo Machiavelli
"It's the end of the world as we know it"Source: "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)" | Speaker: R.E.M.
"Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short."Source: Animal Farm | Author: George Orwell
"Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!"Source: The Wizard of Oz | Speaker: Dorothy, the Tin Man, and the Scarecrow
"Man serves the interests of no creature except himself."Source: Animal Farm | Author: George Orwell
"My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die."Source: The Princess Bride | Speaker: Inigo Montoya
"Sometimes I can feel my bones straining"Source: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Author: Jonathan Safran Foer
"The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, resting."Source: The Red Badge of Courage | Author: Stephen Crane
"The mask was a thing on its own, behind which Jack hid, liberated from shame and self-consciousness"Source: Lord of the Flies | Author: William Golding
"The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven."Source: Paradise Lost | Author: John Milton
"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."Source: FDR's Inauguration Speech | Speaker: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
"The world, that understandable and lawful world, was slipping away."Source: Lord of the Flies | Author: William Golding
"They seemed to be staring at the dark, but their eyes were watching God."Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God | Author: Zora Neale Hurston
"Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth."Source: The Pride of the Yankees | Speaker: Lou Gehrig
"Very superstitious, writing's on the wall. Very superstitious, ladder's 'bout to fall."Source: Superstition | Speaker: Stevie Wonder
"Water, water, every where, Nor any drop to drink."Source: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner | Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"We just got to go on, that's all. That's what grownups would do."Source: Lord of the Flies | Author: William Golding
"We've got to have rules and obey them. After all, we're not savages. We're English, and the English are best at everything."Source: Lord of the Flies | Author: William Golding
"When we sat by the flesh pots, and when we did eat bread to the full."Source: Exodus 16:3 | Author: Moses
"Who needs a heart when a heart can be broken?"Source: "What's Love Got to Do With It?" | Speaker: Tina Turner
"You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."Source: 1946 Letter | Author: Albert Einstein
"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."Source: You Learn by Living: Eleven Keys for a More Fulfilling Life | Author: Eleanor Roosevelt