Issey Miyake Quotes

Over a period of 11 months, I was constantly afraid that Youth Care would lock me up. It was all a frightening and traumatic experience. So often, these terrible memories come to me. I can't ignore them.

The real damage from terrorist attacks doesn't come from the explosion. The real damage is done after the explosion, by the victims, who repeatedly and determinedly attack themselves, giving over reason in favor of terror... Terrorism is about magnifying one mediagenic act of violence into one hundred billion acts of terrorized authoritarian idiocy.

Fear cripples faster than any implement of war.

Terror works like a musical composition, so many instruments, all in tune, playing perfectly together to create their desired effect. Sorrow and horror and fear.

Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.

I saw my hometown burning that day.

People who have been made to suffer by certain things cannot be reminded of them without a horror which paralyses every other pleasure

Staring down the barrel of a gun is the scariest thing you could ever experience. It's not funny. It's not for the movies.

I had dreams of being chased by a creature down an alleyway on a regular basis. I'd have dreams of being ripped apart.

Her only thought was of getting away, as if she were carrying a live grenade from inside the house, so that when it exploded, it would destroy just herself.

And then the screaming begins.

The whole campfire idea freaked Piper out. It made her think of that huge purple bonfire in the dreams, and her father tied to a stake. What she got instead was almost as terrifying: a sing-along.

In fear I hurried this way and that. I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, the one as hateful as the other.

I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.

I am filled with fear and tormented with terrible visions of pain. Everywhere people are hurting one another, the planet is rampant with injustices, whole societies plunder groups of their own people, mothers imprison sons, children perish while brothers war. O, woe.

The first horror is there's horror. The second is you accommodate it.

Everyone just screams and screams and screams. I have accepted it as real now, but it still feels surreal.

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

War is hell. You can't photograph a flying bullet, but you can capture genuine fear.

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

The first time I experienced war, I thought the world was ending.

The mark of fear is not easily removed.

To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.

Flashbacks rarely involve language. Mine certainly didn't. They were visual, motor, and sensory, and they took place in a relentless, horrifying present.

This is a horrific day in Boston. My thoughts and prayers are with those who have been injured.