Top 46 Quotes About Fear Stephen King
#1. We sometimes need to create unreal monsters and bogies to stand in for all the things we fear in our real lives.
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#3. The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear?"
Yes."
My Imagination."
I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself."
Then you have a small imagination."
Roland and Eddie
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#5. It was all right to feel fear, but sometimes a very bad idea to show it. 'You
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#6. UR LOCAL's under construction. Better watch out, traffic fines double.
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#7. At the same moment a cold chill traced a finger down the middle of my back. Sometimes things come back to you, that's all. Sometimes they come back.
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#8. The wife whose sweetly given reply in the face of any problem would be, "Whatever you think is best, dear." Women, take note: a wife like that never needs to fear bubbling away the last of her life through a cut throat.
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#9. There's no room for anything but joy and fear, and joy ruled the house. Fear lived in the shack out back!
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#10. Good writing is often about letting go of fear and affectation.
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#11. I've met talespinners before, Jake, and they're all cut more or less from the same cloth. They tell tales because they're afraid of life.
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#12. And when It woke It would call them back, yes, back, because fear was fertile, its child was rage, and rage cried for revenge.
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#13. Fear is fertile and rage is its offspring..
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#14. Why do people do that to gifted people? Is it jealousy? Fear? Both, maybe. But this kid had the advantage of knowing how good he was.
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#15. You laugh because what's fearful and unknown is also what's funny, you laugh the way a small child will sometimes laugh and cry at the same time when a capering circus clown approaches, knowing it is supposed to be funny... but it is also unknown, full of the unknown's eternal power.
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#16. Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.
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#17. It's not your bullets I fear, Roland. It's your idea of answers that scares me.
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#19. Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.
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#20. Fear not, daughter Zion," Stephen whispered. "See, your king is coming, seated on a donkey's colt ... " He spun to me, eyes flashing. "This is written of the Anointed One, in the book of Zechariah. You see, it is him! He orchestrates this with intention!
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#21. Those old things were still painful to think about, still bright with the childish primary colors of fear and horror.
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#23. Nightmares exist outside of logic, and there's little fun to be had in explanations; they're antithetical to the poetry of fear.
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#24. Terror - what Hunter Thompson calls "fear and loathing" - often arises from a pervasive sense of disestablishment; that things are in the unmaking. If that sense of unmaking is sudden and seems personal - if it hits you around the heart - then it lodges in the memory as a complete set.
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#25. Her heart was pounding hard, not with excitement but with fear. The head could tell the heart all that was eighteen years over, but in matters of emotion the heart had its own brilliant vocabulary.
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#26. She felt a calmness in him now, a centered lack of fear, that touched her heart with love, and with some queer darkness, as well. He was so different, her son, so special ... but the world did not love people like that. The world tried to root them out, like tares from a garden.
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#27. Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear
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#28. Fear is actually an acronym for Fuck Everything And Run.
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#29. As we become aware of our own unavoidable termination, we become aware of the fear-emotion. And I think that, as copulation tends towards self-preservation, all fear tends towards a comprehension of the final ending.
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#30. She looked from her son to Bill and back to her son again, touched by wonder that was mostly simple perplexity but partly a fear so thin and sharp that it found its way deep into her inner heart and vibrated there like a tuning-fork made of clear ice.
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#31. They were nice enough people and all, but there wasn't much love in them. Because they were too busy being afraid. Love didn't grow very well in a place where there was only fear, just as plants didn't grow very well in a place where it was always dark.
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#32. The hawk does not fear you, boy, and the hawk never will. The hawk is God's gunslinger.
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#33. God I am unlucky. I don't hate You, but I fear You are not my friend, nor any man's friend.
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#34. Maybe he sells fear because he's got nothing else to sell.
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#35. He had an idea all such blocks were probably fear-centered and basically hysterical in nature, as if the brain detected (or thought it had detected) some nasty interior beast and had locked it in a cell with a steel door.
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#36. Let's talk, you and I. Let's talk about fear.
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#38. She had always consciously or unconsciously formed fear into a simple equation: fears = unknown.
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#39. A crazy certainty had arisen in his mind: a hand - or perhaps a claw - was going to swim up from the grayness of the Kindle's screen, grab him by the throat, and yank him in.
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#40. Leaving for the night, it came to me. What I should have told her. Life goes on - that's what I should have said. That's what you say to people when a loved one dies. But, thinking it over, I was glad I didn't. Because maybe that's what she was afraid of.
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#41. Sometimes when you're young, you have moments of such happiness, you think you're living on someplace magical, like Atlantis must have been. Then we grow up and our hearts break into two.
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#42. Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.
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#43. The fears of children were simpler and usually more powerful. The fears of children could often be summoned up in a single face ... and if bait were needed, why, what child did not love a clown?
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#44. If a fear cannot be articulated, it can't be conquered.
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#45. Eddie discovered one of his childhood's great truths. Grownups are the real monsters, he thought.
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#46. I don't want your apology, least of all for being afraid," he said. "Without fear, what would we be? Mad dogs with foam on our muzzles and shit drying on our hocks.
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