Max Brooks Quotes

I really believe hatred is not a primal emotion, in that you can't find it in nature. It's basically some kind of distortion of fear.

Fear and hatred can be the things that drive you. I don't always think of fear as a bad thing, it gives you fight-or-flight.

Fear arises sooner than anything else.

Animals do have emotion. But fear tends to be one of the most primal emotions.

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

In the cold, shivering twilight, preceding the daybreak of civilization, the dominating emotion of man was fear.

Frightened is the natural state for all men.

There is only one universal passion fear.

Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.

Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear.

Fear is the greatest salesman.

Fear results in fight or flight. Anxiety creates doom and gloom. Fear is the pulse that pounds when you see a coiled rattlesnake in your front yard. Anxiety is the voice that tells you, Never, ever, for the rest of your life, walk barefooted through the grass. There might be a snake...somewhere.

What counted was not the facts but the fears.

There's nothing special about your fear.

Vision evokes emotion. There is no such thing as an emotionless vision.

Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination.

Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It is a natural self-defense mechanism that is common to felines, wolves, hyenas, and most humans. Even fruit bats know fear, and I salute them for it. If you think the world is weird now, imagine how weird it would be if wild beasts had no fear.

They who cannot be induced to fear for love will never be enforced to love for fear. Love opens the heart, fear shuts it; that encourages, this compels; and victory meets encouragement, but flees compulsion.

The strongest human emotion is fear. It's the essence of any good thriller that, for a little while, you believe in the boogeyman.

Laughter is an independent, tremendously important, and lurid emotion.

Fear is the most powerful enemy of reason.

Joy is the reflex of terror.

For me, nostalgia is an involuntary emotion. ... I think it's just a natural human response to loss.