Panic Quotes

It's amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites. (Thomas Sowell)
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. View quote
Graham Greene
Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic. View quote
Anaïs Nin
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
It was like when you make a move in chess and just as you take your finger off the piece, you see the mistake you've made, and there's this panic because you don't know yet the scale of disaster you've left yourself open to. View quote
Kazuo Ishiguro
The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither. View quote
Kenneth Grahame
Panic: A highly underrated capacity thanks to which individuals are able to indicate clearly that something is wrong.... Given their head, most humans panic with great dignity and imagination. This can be called democratic expression or practical common sense. View quote
John Ralston Saul
The process of rewriting is enjoyable, because you're not in that existential panic when you don't have a novel at all. View quote
Rose Tremain
I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it. View quote
William Petersen
We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
People were already beginning to forget, what horrible suffering the war had brought them. I did not want to cause fear and panic, but to let people know how dreadful war is and so to stimulate people's powers of resistance. (Otto Dix)
Panic in Wall Street, brokers feeling melancholy. View quote
Scott Joplin
Miles clutched Quinn's elbow. "Don't Panic." "I'm not panicking," Quinn observed, "I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or his belly and that his gameness is really an extreme of panic in which he runs, leaps, and pulls to get away until he dies. It would seem to be enough advantage to the angler that the fish has the hook in his mouth rather than the angler. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
Hysteria is impossible without an audience. Panicking by yourself is the same as laughing alone in an empty room. You feel really silly. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
The sane understand that human beings are incapable of sustaining conspiracies on a grand scale, because some of our most defining qualities as a species are inattention to detail, a tendency to panic, and an inability to keep our mouths shut. View quote
Dean Koontz
Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation. View quote
Vannevar Bush
The seriousness of my situation started to sink in, and again I fought panic. I pushed it down, but it was harder this time, like my insides were an open can of shaken soda and I was trying to keep it from bubbling up out of the top. View quote
Abby Sunderland
You really do have to wonder whether a few years from now we'll look back at the first decade of the 21st century-when food prices spiked, energy prices soared, world population surged, tornados plowed through cities, floods and droughts set records, populations were displaced and governments were threatened by the confluence of it all-and ask ourselves: What were we thinking? How did we not panic when the evidence was so obvious that we'd crossed some growth/climate/natural resource/population redlines all at once? View quote
Thomas Friedman
Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because of knowledge, mighty by sacrifice. View quote
Rudyard Kipling
It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling through emotional entanglements, sudden irrational convictions, involuntary gleams of insight, rationalized prejudices, and blocks of panic and inertia, finally to reach a completely incommunicable intuition. (Northrop Frye)
But don't panic. Base eight is just like base ten really - if you're missing two fingers. View quote
Tom Lehrer
Memo to himself: the one way to make people panic was to warn them not to. View quote
Alastair Reynolds
There is a kind of success that is indistinguishable from panic. View quote
Edgar Degas
The demons are innumerable, arrive at the most inappropriate times and create panic and terror... but I have learned that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.... Lilies often grow out of carcasses' arseholes. View quote
Ingmar Bergman