Anne Rice Quotes

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

Fear," the doctor said, "is the relinquishment of logic, the willing relinquishing of reasonable patterns. We yield to it or we fight it, but we cannot meet it halfway.

I think that fear comes about when there's things in the world that we want to change, things we're scared or angry about, and we can't change them, and so we become fearful; we develop anxiety.

Fear is often our immediate response to uncertainty. There's nothing wrong with experiencing fear. They key is not to get stuck in it.

Fear is good, for it makes us cautious and aids survival. Not so with terror. It is like slow poison, paralyzing the limbs and blurring the mind. . . Never, when in danger, ask yourself, What will they do to me? Instead think, What can I do to prevent them?

Being frightened of things is worse than the things themselves.

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

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.

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

I'm familiar with that feeling of silence that comes with a very imminent catastrophe, when you know you have absolutely no control over a situation.

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

I woke up nights, worrying that Lotus was out of control - that no one would know what to do.

I have this fear of clowns, so I think that if I surround myself with them, it will ward off all evil.

If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.

I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you're afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.

When you are desperate, it's usually because of fear.

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

Powerlessness frustrates; absolute powerlessness frustrates absolutely. Absolute frustration is a dangerous emotion to run a world with.

People's fear doth ofttimes degenerate into desperation

Many people are so afraid of change.

You have to write about what scares you.

It's inevitable that you feel scared when you don't have control of a situation.

I am scared of so many things.