She had blue skin,
And so did he.
He kept it hid
And so did she.
They searched for blue
Their whole life through,
Then passed right by-
And never knew.
In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away, he felt disarmed and helpless.
Henryk SienkiewiczTag: fear fear-of-unknown fright helplessness wilderness terror thunderstorms
Amid the stillness of the night, in the depths of the ravine, from the direction in which the corpses lay suddenly resounded a kind of inhuman, frightful laughter in which quivered despair, and joy, and cruelty, and suffering, and pain, and sobbing, and derision; the heart-rending and spasmodic laughter of the insane or condemned.
Henryk SienkiewiczTag: fear fright wilderness suspence
In the meantime the groans changed into the protracted, thunderous roar by which all living creatures are struck with terror, and the nerves of people, who do not know what fear is, shake, just as the window-panes rattle from distant cannonading.
Henryk SienkiewiczTag: fear wilderness terror suspence
But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed, frozen, immovable. And the hard part is that you never know which half is going to win.
Melody CarlsonTag: fear
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
Franz KafkaTag: fear life death dying kafka franz
He was afraid of touching his own wrist. He never attempted to sleep on his left side, even in those dismal hours of the night when the insomniac longs for a third side after trying the two he has.
Vladimir NabokovTag: fear sleep vladimir-nabokov insomnia left-handed pnin left wrist insomniac
Mind sees ghost when frightened and hopeless.
Toba BetaYou may conquer her love of God: you will never overcome her fear of the devil.
Pierre Choderlos de LaclosMaybe I am getting too grown to want to sleep with Mama. But like a baby, I still have this smallness to my mind. I don't need her hands to convince me the world I can't see from under my blanket is real. I need her hands to do more than her words. Convince me the world I see outside it- ain't.
Connie Rose PorterTag: fear parents-and-children imani-all-mine
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