Fear can be headier than whisky, once man has acquired a taste for it.
The suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.
How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat?
In grief we know the worst of what we feel, But who can tell the end of what we fear?
The only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it.
The horse does abominate the camel; the mighty elephant is afraid of a mouse; and they say that the lion, which scorneth to turn his back upon the stoutest animal, will tremble at the crowing of a cock.
The flocks fear the wolf, the crops the storm, and the trees the wind.
We all choke, and the man who says he doesn't choke is lying like hell.
A man who says he has never been scared is either lying or else he's never been any place or done anything.
Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear.
Every day I wake up a little afraid. Only a fool is never afraid.
This is the century of fear.
There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.
The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.
Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the most cruel.
Fear is the fire that melts Icarian wings.
There seemed to be endless obstacles-it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness; aggressiveness engenders hostility; hostility engenders fear-a disastrous circle.