Laurie Lee Quotes

This death cult has no reason and is beyond negotiation. This is what makes it so frightening. This is what causes so many to engage in a sort of mental diversion. They don't want to confront this horror. So they rush off in search of more comprehensible things to hate.

Fear is a terrible thing. It makes you do awful things.

Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear.

Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.

All I could feel was this warm liquid running down my neck. You automatically think it's blood, it's all in split seconds, so I decided to say I didn't agree with him.

When they first grabbed us, yeah, it terrified, but they calmed me down.

I don't find slashing and blood flying everywhere to be scary. I just find it repulsive.

Everyone wishes that the man whom he fears would perish.

We will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve.

The real damage from terrorist attacks doesn't come from the explosion. The real damage is done after the explosion, by the victims, who repeatedly and determinedly attack themselves, giving over reason in favor of terror... Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

When I close my eyes, I still see things no one should ever experience: a bright red light, the black cloud soon after, people running in every direction trying desperately to escape - I remember it all.

When my grandpa was moved to physical action, you felt utter terror.

What the terrorists want is to scare us and fill us with dread.

Staring down the barrel of a gun is the scariest thing you could ever experience. It's not funny. It's not for the movies.

Anytime you're in fear for your life, it's intense.

I had dreams of being chased by a creature down an alleyway on a regular basis. I'd have dreams of being ripped apart.

We can't discount how scary and shaken not just the Turkish government is, but Turkish society is. Imagine if you had some rump group of military officials here in the United States who started flying off with F-16s or other artillery and were taking shots at government buildings, and people were killed and injured. People would be scared and rightfully so.

Yeah, that's right. Flee in terror, bitches!

And then the screaming begins.

In fear I hurried this way and that. I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, the one as hateful as the other.

Civilization does not have to perish. The brutes are winning only by default.

It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely.

Sure, it was nice now, but eventually there would be running and screaming and blood on the floor.

The sense of a long last night over civilization is back again.

Wha-what?" Her eyes fluttered open. "Nothing," I shouted. "We're being followed by a slaying machine. Go back to sleep.