Quotes About Panic

#1. Of course it landed in my gut to a total panic response, because I wasn't expecting anyone, and didn't seem able to anticipate anything but more trouble. I try not to think that way, but it's more a feeling than a thought, and besides, it's an involuntary response.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#2. It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.

Thomas Sowell

#3. Discipline in perception lets you clearly see the advantage and the proper course of action in every situation - without the pestilence of panic or fear.

Ryan Holiday

#4. I've had a rough six months, okay?" she cried. "Little Blue was my last friend,
and frankly the last time his batteries ran out I had a fleeting moment of panic
that he'd been compromised!

Victoria Dahl

#5. I am relaxed. It's just buried under layers of incredulity and panic. But underneath those I'm very relaxed.

Jonathan Lethem

#6. But the Butlerians turn fear into violence and panic into a weapon. By creating imaginary problems and raising the specter of nonexistent enemies, they transform common people into a wild herd that destroys everything they do not understand.

Brian Herbert

#7. When you found yourself carrying another life inside you, and you were only a child yourself, you'd automatically forget all about the grunts and pains of labour. What had truly conquered your whole thoughts then were the shock, shame and panic.

Diyar Harraz

#8. His utter helplessness at the sight of my tears leaked through his confident voice. It was almost funny that such a great warrior as Hasani was reduced to panic at the sight of a stupid tear or two.

Courtney Cole

#9. You know, I've learned that you can't make someone love you. All you can do is stalk them, hope they panic, and give in.

Allison Morgan

#10. It is better to pray than panic.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#11. In a climate of uncertainty and fear, without strong and visionary leadership, people panic.

Patrick Dodson

#12. Advice his father had given him years before sounded in his mind: "In most of what you face, son, you'll make it through if you don't give in to panic." He

William W. Johnstone

#13. My mind's screaming went unvoiced. Logic grabbed the panic and wrestled it to the ground.

Maria V. Snyder

#14. A recession is when your neighbour has to tighten his belt. A depression is when you have to tighten your own belt. And a panic is when you have no belt to tighten and your pants fall down.

Tommy Douglas

#15. A man who's susceptible to panic attack is a man full of worry

Sunday Adelaja

#16. But adrenaline, like any other drug, wears off. Panic, like any other flood, must crest.

Karen Thompson Walker

#17. Many people have talked to me about God in the middle of difficulties, and after listening to them, I have been struck that, if I believed in the "God" they described, I wouldn't run to him for help either, and I'd be in a panic

Paul David Tripp

#18. The history of life thus consists of 'long periods of boredom interrupted occasionally by panic.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#19. ...love brought you here. If you trusted love this far, don't panic now.

James Baldwin

#20. Please. The word was disgusting as it came out, rank with misuse, and he felt irritation in the midst of his panic. But it was the panic that drove this train, panic that pushed every retort out of his mind and left him broken and desperate, in front of this man.

Alessandra Torre

#21. First off, get your shit together. Panic doesn't help. It never helps. Deep breaths, figure this out, make the right moves. Fear is the mind-killer. Ha. Geek.

James S.A. Corey

#22. If you find yourself suddenly mated to a werewolf, whatever you do, don't panic. Simply turn to Jen for assistance and she will give you a cool acronym to call him ... because that's just so important. -Sally

Quinn Loftis

#23. When all this fame first comes, it's like being hit by a giant wave. You panic and think if you can just calm down and see where it's going, you'll be okay. Then you become more relaxed.

Julia Roberts

#24. Horror and panic themselves are forms of violence, and diminishing them, restricting their dimensions, is itself a civilizing act.

Walter Kirn

#25. It is much easier to do something than to trust in God; we mistake panic for inspiration.

Oswald Chambers

#26. When I'm under the gun and I've got pressure on me, I don't panic. I look for the right solution, and then I go for it.

Magic Johnson

#27. I was having panic attacks. I didn't want to live that way anymore. I was in love and I wanted it to work. I was tired of travelling, tired of the whole scene, just tired. I sat around. I was lazy. I wanted a routine, and I wanted to wake up in the same bed every day, and I got my wish.

Linda Evangelista

#28. I glanced back. Annabeth was trying not to meet my eyes. Her face was pale. I flashed back to two years ago, when I'd thought she was going to take the pledge to Artemis and become a Hunter. I'd been on the edge of a panic attack, thinking that I'd lose her. Now she looked pretty much the same way.

Rick Riordan

#29. Kylie didn't know which one of the fairies were doing it, or if it was both- she honestly didn't care- but the thousands of tiny pinpricks of panic started to fade. She felt safe and that was all that mattered.

C.C. Hunter

#30. Now, if some panic hits me, you have to sort of be friends with your body, it's like your body will work against you.

Ellie Goulding

#31. There has always been a sliver of panic in him, deeply buried, when it comes to his daughter: a fear that he is no good as a father, that he is doing everything wrong. That he never quite understood the rules.

Anthony Doerr

#32. You must be practically a hero to retain your composure in the midst of universal panic. But just try to scream and tear around when everyone else is going about his business
that takes a lot of audacity.

Lidiya Ginzburg

#33. Because if he looked like he was unaffected by her smile, then she would not realize that, in actuality, he was in an utter panic because somewhere deep down inside he'd realized that his life had just changed forever.

Julia Quinn

#34. I try to formulate a plan but my thoughts are a toxic fizz of regret, panic, and self-loathing, as if someone shook up a bottle of carbonated soda and uncapped it inside my brain.

Elan Mastai

#35. My plan growing up was to leave home and try not to panic. I always knew that to strive to be self-sufficient was an important ambition.

Erin O'Connor

#36. Deep in my chest, a burning sensation emerges, as if any minute the suppressed panic that has been simmering is going to burst out. I squeeze my eyes shut again, for the pain has become unbearable. Another soft whimper escapes.

Kimberly Readnour

#37. I have seen soldiers panic at the first sight of battle, and a squire pulling arrows from his body to fight and save his dying horse. Nobility is not a birthright, but is defined by one's actions.

Kevin Costner

#38. People don't die from panic attacks. It just doesn't happen. You're body is a dick, but it's not going to let you self-destruct like that. Even though the emotional pain and physical discomfort may be quite unbearable, anxiety will not physically hurt you.

Robert Duff

#39. When the entire world is built on death and horror, when existence is a constant state of panic, it's hard to get worked up about any one thing. Specific fears have become irrelevant. We've replace them with a smothering blanket far worse.

Isaac Marion

#40. The truly bold thing for Obama to do would be to tell the panic-mongers and boondoggle-seekers to shove it, and to tell taxpayers to ride out the rest of the tough times while he gets Washington's own economic house in order.

Michelle Malkin

#41. Kaufman calculated the risks of his situation: the mathematics of panic.

Clive Barker

#42. Fame made me develop a panic disorder.

Sia Furler

#43. Nothing prompts creativity like poverty, a feeling of hopelessness, and a bit of panic.

Catherine Tate

#44. Crime is increasing, trigger happy policing. Panic is spreading, God knows where we're heading.

Marvin Gaye

#45. A glacial chill rushes through Gage. He whips around just in time to see arms clutch Summer around the middle and drag her into the dark. Panic seizes him, and he takes off after her, regardless of the chaos brewing behind him. Her cry of surprise echoes all around them, drilling into his bones.

Laura Kreitzer

#46. Being an impatient guy, even off the field, I would always look to score runs and score them quickly. Sometimes I panic if runs are not coming.

Gautam Gambhir

#47. But, he realised, even in his panic he had not wanted to smudge the creamy paper by shutting the book while the ink was wet.

George Orwell

#48. The hardest thing for everyone, for the writer, for the director and certainly for the actors, is not to panic when they're doing a certain line for the tenth time because everything ceases to be funny after it's been repeated.

Ivan Reitman

#49. Under the federal reserve act, panics are scientifically created. The present panic is the first scientifically created one, worked out as we figured, a mathematical equation.

Charles Lindbergh

#50. The most scared I'd ever been was the first time I sang at a rugby match, Australia versus New Zealand, in front of one hundred thousand people. I had a panic attack the night before because people have been booed off and never worked again ... just singing one song, the national anthem.

Hugh Jackman

#51. Sorry are you asleep?' 'Not anymore. I saw Howard's phone number and had a panic attack.

Jenna Evans Welch

#52. She was too well-trained to panic.

Steve Sheinkin

#53. If anything attacked us, we could just panic at it until it went away.

Seanan McGuire

#54. He grabbed the microphone in both hands, his face exploding into a smile at the sensation.
Hey. Do not. I repeat. Do. Not. Panic. There's nothing to be scared of. This is just your average everyday fucking miracle.

Jeri Smith-Ready

#55. Sinking. Sinking, but instead of feeling panic or anything else, I realized that "Please guys, don't" were terrible last words.

John Green

#56. In all honesty, at that time, I never saw myself as an author ... I was just a Mom in a state of panic, trying to enter a short story contest to win the prize money in order to keep the lights on in my home.

Leslie Banks

#57. Maybe the trick was not to panic. In life, as in the bewildering business of writing stories and flinging them out into the world, you had to focus on the page in front of you.

Scott Westerfeld

#58. But who, he wondered in a moment's panic as her nearing heat began to assault him, who enforces the Enforcer?

Jacquelyn Frank

#59. When they tell you that you have cancer, you panic.

Sofia Vergara

#60. Panic was the death of thought.

Leon Garfield

#61. Someone should pay for their sins.
I'll show you Awful, humans.
I can't even see what I'm doing. All I know is rage, and panic, and darkness.

Rachel Cohn

#62. You are as ordinary as spring,' he murmured. 'As powerless as sunlight.' He ran his fingertips down her neck. 'And when I touch you, I burn,' he said, making her heart stop and a flare of wild panic light inside her. He was too close; he was getting to her.

Charlotte Lamb

#63. Kyle must have seen my panic, because when I looked up at him again, his jacket and shirt were off and he was handing me his shirt. The sight of him with no shirt on hit me. Holy hell, what was he doing?

Christie Cote

#64. Still having nightmares? I've got something for that. Panic attack on the school bus? This should do the trick. Can't sleep? Let's up the dosage. All those pills were making me fat and stupid, and I was still miserable, getting only three or four hours of sleep a night.

Ransom Riggs

#65. All civilizations at some time have fallen into this total terror, when the mystery of life was a kind of panic only to be assuaged by the spilling of blood.

Laurie Lee

#66. Congress was designed by the Founding Fathers to move slowly, precisely to avoid the sudden panic of a one-week solution that becomes a 20-year mess.

Newt Gingrich

#67. Choking is about thinking too much. Panic is about thinking too little. Choking is about loss of instinct. Panic is reversion to instinct. They may look the same, but they are worlds apart.

Malcolm Gladwell

#68. We may now understand better, too, why my father was so fond of the story of the butler who failed to panic on discovering a tiger under the dining table; it was because he knew instinctively that somewhere in this story lay the kernel of what true 'dignity' is.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#69. The very shaping of history now outpaces the ability of men to orient themselves in accordance with cherished values. Even when they do not panic men often sense that older ways off feeling and thinking have collapsed and that newer beginnings are ambiguous to the point of stasis.

C. Wright Mills

#70. I lay in bed and watched moments break into phenomenal particles of panic and could actually see the divine crack of God's ass as he completely turned his back on me.

Arthur Nersesian

#71. Em didn't truly understand about my panic attacks - no one did. But she'd never pushed me to explain, never tried to ditch me when things got weird, and never once looked at me like I was a freak.

Rachel Vincent

#72. Well, unless you've suffered from panic attacks and social anxiety disorders, which is what I was diagnosed as having, it's hard to explain it. But you go on stage knowing you're actually physically going to die. You will keel over and die.

Donny Osmond

#73. Honest to God, all my life I have had such a fear of spiders. In fact, I use to have a reoccurring dream about one. Very clearly, it was black with a red head. It would sit up in the corner of the bedroom and when it started getting closer, I would wake up in a panic.

Tippi Hedren

#74. To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public.

John F. Kennedy

#75. The obsession with the afterlife is born of a panic at not having memories of a before-life.

Dean Cavanagh

#76. Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and long, life and death? Can you let go of all these dualities and embrace the Tao without skepticism or panic? If so, you can reach the heart of the Integral Oneness.

Laozi

#77. I don't have the panic I used to have, meeting people who are androgynous, but when you meet someone whose identity is unclear, that throws your own identity into flux because the way we treat each other is very gendered.

Alice Dreger

#78. I think the phone is a really personal device in a lot of ways. If you drop your phone or lose it there's a moment of panic. On the other hand there's a lot of control that users have.

Susan Wojcicki

#79. If the lamb sees the knife, she panics. Her panic seeps into her meat, darkens it, fouls the flavor.

George R R Martin

#80. Leaving the game plan is a sign of panic, and panic is not in our game plan.

Chuck Noll

#81. Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie,
O, what a panic's in thy breastie!

Robert Burns

#82. I tried to fight the panic and force it back down to where it had come from.

Sue Whitaker

#83. If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.

Jane Rule

#84. She was a dead girl having the worst panic attack shed ever had. Not because she was afraid of dying, but because she knew that she would never live again.

Tonya Hurley

#85. The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.

Oswald Chambers

#86. I think that I don't panic as much as the folks on the left or the right do. I don't have that sense of panic.

Lewis Black

#87. He hesitated then, anticipating the panic that came when there was nothing left to read.
- Guido Brunetti

Donna Leon

#88. We have only two modes - complacency and panic.

James R. Schlesinger

#89. Give me terror.
Flash.
Give me panic.
Flash.

Chuck Palahniuk

#90. Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose, or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

Graham Greene

#91. My brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the living world.

William Styron

#92. when I am in a foreign city and feel even the slightest bit disoriented, I can feel the panic of that day on the Hong Kong street begin to rise in my chest. My story of being lost ended quickly and happily, but it still haunts me.

Katherine Paterson

#93. At the first rumors of war, timid investors in various government stock, being panic-stricken, sell out, to their loss and the gamblers' gain.

Randal Cremer

#94. A stock market decline is as routine as a January blizzard in Colorado. If you're prepared, it can't hurt you. A decline is a great opportunity to pick up the bargains left behind by investors who are fleeing the storm in panic.

Peter Lynch

#95. I think there is some resistance when people talk about ethical fashion, and a tendency to panic that if you're bringing a moral agenda and highlighting the origins of the garments, you can't incorporate style. But there's no reason why style and conscience can't co-exist.

Erin O'Connor

#96. Mutants are a community. We're a people and there's no way anybody can make us be what they want. We stick together and don't panic or overreact ... you'll see. We're stronger than this.
Miss Pryde ... are you a #&$%ing retard?

Joss Whedon

#97. People often panic when the markets go down and sell off their stocks - but then they aren't in the game when the markets are doing well.

Suze Orman

#98. without warning, the thermometer disappeared from my fingers. Some sudden suction had drawn it inside the cow. I ran my fingers round just inside the rectum - nothing; I pushed my hand inside without success; with a feeling of rising panic I rolled up my sleeve and groped about in vain.

James Herriot

#99. Panic freezes you. Nobody is going to go into your head and take the panic away. But action leaks the panic out of your head.

James Altucher

#100. Dudes," He said, "Do not follow other dudes to the bathroom."
Isabelle sighed. "Latent homosexual panic will do you in every time

Cassandra Clare