S. J. Rozan Quotes

And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.

We are going through a terrible crisis. We do not know exactly what is going to happen, but in our hearts the pendulum of the seismograph is already swinging.

Uncertainty is everywhere and you cannot escape from it.

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, where nothing could be trusted, where nothing was certain. A terrible place.

Man's greatest fear is chaos.

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

I think right now in the world we're feeling like there's no solid ground beneath our feet, you know?

Unease is not an emotion I get often in the theatre, and I like it.

Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.

I don't have to write about the future. For most people, the present is enough like the future to be pretty scary.

I think fear of the unknown is the scariest thing.

I'm not sure I always feel like I'm in the seat. Sometimes I'm only holding on by one hand and flying out behind the roller coaster. I don't know anybody who doesn't feel that way.

Fear has many faces.

My only fear is the unknown.

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.

The truth, whether we admit it or not, is that grace scares us to death. It scares us primarily because it wrestles control and manageability out of our hands - introducing chaos and freedom.

Terror is the order of the day.

After September 11th, every day seems like September 12th.

We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear: fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself because it is fear, which drives men to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously.

There's, like, a dark needle or a nail that lives at the back of all of our heads, and that's your fear.

I'm always surprised to rediscover that there's something kind of scary about life; and that the feeling we have that we're in charge is probably ill founded.

My biggest fears I can't talk about. And my biggest fear is that those fears happen, and I can't stop it.

It's inevitable that you feel scared when you don't have control of a situation.

The unknown is always scary.