Etgar Keret Quotes

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

It's amazing how much of a bodily experience being scared is. It doesn't take very long of hyperventilating to feel like you're going to pass out. It's one of those things where being scared is more of a physiological response that you can pretty easily manipulate. So in those types of scenes, it just takes a lot of energy.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

What an incredible drug fear is.

Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.

Fear and stress - one creates the other.

Panic is our great enemy.

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

Terror made me cruel.

And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us.

Fear makes you do stupid things.

When I was immobilized by fear, I might have a panic attack. I've had a couple of panic attacks in my life.

Once we start believing that the apocalypse is coming, the amygdala goes on high alert, filtering out most anything that says otherwise.

You breathe fast when you're scared.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

Of all the hazards, fear is the worst.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

When I'm scared, my natural state is to hide and run for cover.

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

We need horror stories for people to focus on.

Fear is a powerful weapon. It can excite and motivate, and it can get people to yell and to scream. But fear has never created a job.

The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

You can't 'work through worry and fear rationally,' because fear isn't rational!

I feel like fear is a very real thing, a very ubiquitous thing, and it can be very subtle.