Anna Akhmatova Quotes

The way to feel safe is never to feel secure.

We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear: fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself because it is fear, which drives men to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously.

No matter where I go, I always feel unwanted eyes following me. It's a dirty world out there.

My paranoia never ends, but I haven't been paranoid about being spied on my shadowy forces for some time now.

Thrills are much more about anticipation than action. An unfired bullet is more dangerous than one that has already met its target.

I never trusted anybody at all. I don't know why it was so hard, I just didn't.

The country makes me more paranoid, you know? I think the crazy people out there are little crazier.

In every tyrant's heart there springs in the end this poison, that he cannot trust a friend.

I don't trust or love anyone. Because people are so creepy. Creepy creepy creeps. Creeping around. Creeping here and creeping there. Creeping everywhere.

With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways.

Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.

I felt vulnerable and very much between friends. I remember walking down the hallway and thinking I had no way of knowing what was coming, literally. This wasn't because I had some horrific bullying story, but because of a steady drip of negativity.

There are moments in 'Body Snatchers' that touch the sort of thing that I find scary... like isolation and the inability to trust even familiar things. But - is that a horror movie - or a thriller? I don't really know the difference.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

I wanted to choose somewhere public, because I was scared of the KGB.

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

There's so much to be afraid of.

I don't watch the news because I wouldn't leave the house. I would not leave the house.

I don't let my picture be taken. I'm on too many hit lists.

Being in the dark, there's a real weight to it. It's heavy.

I feel like everybody's always out to get me, and that's a weird feeling.

Imagine a thousand more such daily intrusions in your life, every hour and minute of every day, and you can grasp the source of this paranoia, this anger that could consume me at any moment if I lost control.

I can't live my life worrying about something that might never happen.

It's hard to care deeply for something that might turn on you and eat you.