James Herbert Quotes

I fear for the lives of my daughters. I am uncertain about what kind of future they will face.

The worst part about loving someone, Merripen, is that there will al­ways be things you can't protect her from. Things be­yond your control. You finally realize there is something worse than dying . . . and that is having something hap­pen to her. You have to live with that fear always. But you have to take the bad part, if you want the good part." Kev looked at him bleakly. "What's the good part?" A smile touched Cam's lips. "All the rest of it is the good part," he said, and went.

Safer than we are.” I told Franny. “Safer than love.” “let me tell ya kid,” Franny said to me, squeezing my hand. “Everything’s safer than love.

'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'

There's always a threat surrounding the things you love

Auditioning for something you already know and love is terrifying.

I think you realise how terrifying and scary the world is when you're bringing kids into it.

My safety and my family's safety are not guaranteed even now.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

I have a husband and children, and it affects me deeply that somebody could be taken away in a second.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

Running at night used to frighten me. Part of it was simply safety, the question of whether level ground would truly appear under each tentative footstep, and whether the temporary but complete blindness suffered while running toward headlights was, in fact, concealing death.

Attend me, hold me in your muscular flowering arms, protect me from throwing any part of myself away.

My biggest fear in life is losing the people I love, and the thing with cancer is that it seems that you can't really control it.

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

I think I need security.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

People want security in this insecure world.

You take the risk of being rejected.

We all lock our doors at night, not because we hate the people outside, but because we love the people inside.

The way to feel safe is never to feel secure.

With all the crap that's going on around the world, you kind of want to do what you can to protect the ones you love.

I think it always feels riskier and scarier to go after something you really love and want because the rejection and failure hurts more.

We have our moments of emotional vulnerabilities as any other human being, and my greatest fear gnawing away at me is losing my loved ones.