224 Quotes About Panic

I’m not panicking. I’m watching you panic. It’s more entertaining.

It wasn't an epidemic yet because no one knew about it.

Remember what you always say: no problem has ever been solved by panicking.

Besides which, he was a man who did not let his decisions be made for him by other people, not by a crowd thrown into panic, and certainly not by some anonymous piece of criminal trash.

I admit, he has far too much on his mind at the moment. Suppressed panic turns him into a prick every time; it's what he does instead of running in circles screaming. A way of coping, I suppose.

...panic is a synonym for being; in its delays, in its swerving and rushing syntax, its frantic lists and questions, it fends off time and loss. Its opposite is oblivion: not the tranquil oblivion of sleep but the threatening oblivions of sex and death.

Sam wanted to get up, calmly set his napkin down, and sprint out into the night.

Sure, it was nice now, but eventually there would be running and screaming and blood on the floor.

One editor during the Civil War got a grievous message to meet his brothers corpse, only to find out that the telegraph operator had garbled the message to meet his living brother's CORPS.