sudden fear Quotes

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

No. The blues are because you're getting fat and maybe it's been raining too long, you're just sad that's all. The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?

This feeling is not unlike the sinking in one's stomach when one is in an elevator that suddenly goes down, or when you are snug in your bed and your closet door suddenly creaks open to reveal the person who has been hiding there.

The only time I had any butterflies was when I stood up and backed toward the open door and looked down.

Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.

With a sudden sharp hot stink of fox, It enters the dark hole of the head. The window is starless still; the clock ticks, The page is printed.

My hair is grey, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have grown from sudden fears.

Alarm stole over me on little kitten feet.

Panics, in some cases, have their uses; they produce as much good as hurt. Their duration is always short; the mind soon grows through them and acquires a firmer habit than before. But their peculiar advantage is, that they are the touchstone of sincerity and hypocrisy, and bring things and men to light, which might have lain forever undiscovered.