440 Quotes About Terror

War always costs more than you expect. Hostility takes over every facet of your accustomed life. It worms and digs its way into each tiny crevice, spreading, ripping, and shredding everything that is familiar. Eventually, fighting congeals and reforms itself into a living, breathing reality that consumes everything you knew.

Not being intimidated has the power to intimidate.

They are all paranoid." Apparently, this voice does not see itself in the "all" of dementia.

The history of any one part of the Earth, like the life of a soldier, consists of long periods of boredom and short periods of terror.

A person must shrug off lies, embrace the unknown and unknowable, and control personal terror in order to do to discover the right path for leading a worthy life. Dare to be an original. Make your life a vivid example for other people how to live splendidly.

A veces, la forma más sencilla de dejar salir al miedo, es a través de una lágrima.

Maybe it was always that way and everyone has always been forever waking in a flustered confusion deep at night trying to believe that the awful sound they think woke them was nothing, or was the nervous bark of a dog, not the sound of violence or of a child weeping in the kind of desolation or terror that demands intervention

Turmoil and terror aren't compatible with sangfroid. When horror strikes, the heart is always its first target.

Civil wars, just like the reign of terror, are but the accelerated domestication of a people by the covert powers. - On Domestication