“To be buried while alive is, beyond question, the most terrific of these extremes which has ever fallen to the lot of mere mortality.”
Edgar Allan Poe
HorrorSpooky
Fear Quotes
200 FAMOUS QUOTES · FEAR
Fear Quotes
Read the best fear quotes from Shakespeare, Seneca, the Bible, Emerson and more, with timeless words to help you face your fears and find courage.
“Quoth the Raven, 'Nevermore.'”
Edgar Allan Poe
SpookyPoetry
“It is the beating of his hideous heart!”
Edgar Allan Poe
GuiltHorror
“For the love of God, Montresor!”
Edgar Allan Poe
HorrorHalloween
“The dead travel fast.”
Bram Stoker
SpookyHalloween
“I want you to believe... to believe in things that you cannot.”
Bram Stoker
The UnknownBelief
“It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils.”
Mary Shelley
MonstersHorror
“Man is not truly one, but truly two.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
Human NatureDark
“Dead men don't bite.”
Robert Louis Stevenson
PiratesFunny
“There is no such thing, sir, as a ghost.”
Oscar Wilde
GhostsFunny
“The basis of optimism is sheer terror.”
Oscar Wilde
OptimismFunny
“There's more of gravy than of grave about you, whatever you are!”
Charles Dickens
GhostsFunny
“Mr. Holmes, they were the footprints of a gigantic hound!”
Arthur Conan Doyle
MysterySpooky
“Let me in - let me in!”
Emily Bronte
GhostsSpooky
“For the Snark was a Boojum, you see.”
Lewis Carroll
MonstersFunny
“And we are here as on a darkling plain swept with confused alarms of struggle and flight, where ignorant armies clash by night.”
Matthew Arnold
UncertaintyPoetry
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.”
W. B. Yeats
ChaosUncertainty
“The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.”
Robert Frost
DarknessDuty
“What but design of darkness to appall? - If design govern in a thing so small.”
Robert Frost
NatureDread
“Verily all things move within your being in constant half embrace, the desired and the dreaded, the repugnant and the cherished, the pursued and that which you would escape.”
Kahlil Gibran
EmotionsFreedom
“Strength is life, weakness is death.”
Swami Vivekananda
StrengthOvercoming Fear
“If the world should break and fall upon him, its ruins would strike him unafraid.”
Horace
FearlessnessCharacter
“There is no believing a liar, even when he speaks the truth.”
Aesop
FablesHonesty
“Ladybird, ladybird, fly away home, your house is on fire and your children are gone.”
Mother Goose
Nursery RhymesSpooky
“Three blind mice, see how they run!”
Mother Goose
Nursery RhymesFunny