Unspoken Fear Quotes

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

I remember that the first time I looked at my son, of course I felt love. But I think the first feeling was not love: it was fear. Someone is needing me. If something happens to him, what am I going to do? Maybe I won't survive if something happens to him? The fear was as big as the love.

There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence.

You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.

A secret gets bigger and nastier the longer you don't talk about it.

I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

Literature more often tells the story of impulses we don't act on than of ones we do. I could joke about the Cain and Abel story with my brother without expecting him to be worried, though it's always possible he was more anxious than he let on.

In the theatre, if you say 'Macbeth', all the actors will start looking very anxious. I'm so well-trained not to say it in the theatre that I can hardly say it in normal life.

Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere.