Brian Azzarello Quotes

Every time that I'm in the dark, I imagine what might be lurking in the shadows. It's kind of like a drug in that way - darkness seems to change the way I think - making me way more prone to fear.

I lived for 10 years in Los Angeles, and the one element that surpasses everything else - that you are very conscious of - is fear. You can smell it.

New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.

I'm afraid of the dark because I picture things; I see things. I'm a freak. I see, like, little demons coming out of the floor and other little things running around. It's scary.

Life is a dream in the night, a fear among fears, A naked runner lost in a storm of spears.

In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away, he felt disarmed and helpless.

Crime, to the man of the forties, was an alien monstrous terror.

When you're working on a lake and it's dark and cold out and you can't see what's underwater, it is freaking scary!

To the darkness and the night, the spirits seem to have a natural claim - it is their realm; the boldest of us have sometimes felt an unaccountable creeping in the thick darkness.

I'd heard it was dangerous to walk around Miami.

I don't like going into the basement. I'm always afraid that something's going to blow up.

On my first day in New York a guy asked me if I knew where Central Park was. When I told him I didn't he said, 'Do you mind if I mug you here?'.

People have told me about organized crime in the fashion industry, but I can't talk about that. I'm looking to stay alive.

We live in an unsafe world.

I've never met a murderer as far as I know. I would hate to.

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.

I won't forget the hood. I won't forget the days of catching a bullet on the way to the mailbox or bricks with death threats that somehow made their way through the window.

Kids can relate to having some scary person living near their house. They can relate to, 'Hey, don't go near that house.' We all can.

I remember, after filming that last scene in 'The Walking Dead,' I had nightmares for weeks about being eaten alive. With 'Blair Witch,' I had nightmares as well. But what's scarier about 'Blair Witch' is thinking about what might have happened instead of death.

There's crime everywhere.

I don't think anybody feels safe in Chicago. Bullets ain't got no name on them.

I believe that men are generally still a little afraid of the dark, though the witches are all hung.

I don’t wanna die, man. They’re not playing. Have you seen how many of them are out there? One just took a shot at me, so unlike you morons, I’m hiding. Hiding is nice. (Vik)

They are asleep. This is the condition they prefer. They are afraid of the world and sleep is a way of dealing with their fear. Someday they will wake. Perhaps something frightful will happen. Indeed, there is no better invitation to the frightful than ignorance - that is, sleep. (29)

Those who cannot be aggressive are hunted down while they shiver and hide because the night is dark.