Markus Zusak Quotes

Where there is fear there is aggression.

Terror made me cruel.

Who's next?

To many men... the miasma of peace seems more suffocating than the bracing air of war.

These days, our senses are bombarded with aggression. We are constantly confronted with global images of unending, escalating war and violence.

I remember one of them - it was a 1941 black Ford. As it went by very slow, a guy leaned out with a shotgun, keeping a bead on us all the time, and we just had to walk slowly and wait for him to kill us... They didn't kill us, but they didn't end it, either.

I think what happens is when you have fear, fear translates into hatred.

The whole campfire idea freaked Piper out. It made her think of that huge purple bonfire in the dreams, and her father tied to a stake. What she got instead was almost as terrifying: a sing-along.

The root of war is fear.

The scalded head feares cold water.

The only thing that gets me high is the musky scent of my enemy's fear

Here stands a girl clutching a knife. There is grease on the stove, blood in the air, and angry words piled in the corners. We are trained not to see it, not to see any of it. . . . Someone just ripped off my eyelids.

I smell fear, he said with a quiet intensity. But not nearly enough.

Fear and stress - one creates the other.

Once fear enters your life - it will take you in one of two directions: empowerment or panic.

Terror made me cruel; and finding it useless to attempt shaking the creature off, I pulled its wrist on to the broken pane, and rubbed it to and fro till the blood ran down and soaked the bedclothes.

Down the well," Angela repeated, and had to go sit down and hold on to her letter opener. It was in the shape of a dagger. Angela said holding it soothed her; seeing Angela hold it did not soothe Kami.

Normally, we push away the things we're scared of.

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject.

They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.

Bullies are just frightened people.

If I were to sum up the negative reactions to my work, I think there are two primary causes: one is that if there is discourse about anxiety it is necessarily going to induce anxiety. It will represent a return of the repressed for a great many people.

Wars are begun by frightened men.

I never really got nightmares from movies. In fact, I recall my father saying when I was three years old that I would be scared, but I never was.