Edward Albee Quotes

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

He who has been stung by a serpent is afraid of a lizard.

The scalded head feares cold water.

Being frightened of things is worse than the things themselves.

The mark of fear is not easily removed.

Fear has governed my life, if I think about it.

I returned to Vietnam in '94, and even then, all those decades later, walking around that place, I remained afraid. And, in some ways, rightly so.

The first several years of my life were used to upload incredible amounts of fear, and I just became afraid of everything. I was afraid of my parents, afraid of my classmates, afraid of the streets of Washington, D.C. I would flinch at every gesture.

Today fear, the most corroding of influences, is the moving cause ...

For like four or five months of my life I was too scared to like, move around and reach out for things because I was worried that I'd my hands would run into glass, like I could reach up and if I reached up and knocked on the air it would make a noise. I couldn't look at the sky because I was worried that I see a crack.

Once you've had a panic attack you live in fear that another one is going to come. From the second it's gone, every moment every day is about the next one.

It's tough sometimes for groups of people and animals to let go of that fear that can so easily bubble back up to the surface.

I was scarred in 1977 by watching Jaws, and I've never got over it.

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

The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush.

Fear is where the information is.

Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

Fear cripples faster than any implement of war.

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

I have friends who have had PTSD, and you can get it from other things than war.

Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?

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

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.

I'm scared of everything. I think it's only sensible to be that way.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.