Chinua Achebe Quotes

I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.

When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength.

Fear is the foundation of safety.

In extreme danger, fear feels no pity.

If you believe that their real intention is to kill you, it isn't unreasonable to believe that they would lie to you.

For a long time, I had this constant feeling that I just wanted to look behind me. The hairs on my neck were standing up all the time, I didn't know where was safe.

Most wives look at me the way lame deer look at a hungry lion.

People want to protect their way of life, and when they think it's in danger they start grasping for more extreme-seeming alternatives.

You have to fear the wounded animal.

I don’t wanna die, man. They’re not playing. Have you seen how many of them are out there? One just took a shot at me, so unlike you morons, I’m hiding. Hiding is nice. (Vik)

I think when you start to get afraid, it's time to leave.

Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?" Jacob Black New Moon

You show you care, you die.You show you fear, you die.You show nothing, maybe you live.

'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.'

It is the strain of walking around the world-down the street, riding city buses and elevators, moving from place to place to place-and not knowing who might want to destroy you, who might like to fill your heart with poison, who might rob you and stab you, who might stand above you in the dark with a tarantula.

I felt like a deer with a hundred hunters after me.

They want us dead,' said Bond calmly. 'So we have to stay alive.

The screech-owl, with ill-boding cry, Portends strange things, old women say; Stops every fool that passes by, And frights the school-boy from his play.

Why would I go looking for someone I know wants to kill me?

I watched a snail crawl along the edge of a straight razor. That's my dream. That's my nightmare. Crawling, slithering, along the edge of a straight razor and surviving.

There's always a threat surrounding the things you love

The girls you meet are never very far from their worst-case scenario.

You don't have to destroy me. Do you?