persistent fear Quotes

Why should I be afraid now? Strange men have come to kill me ever since I was twelve years old.

Because horror on Earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained.

Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.

My life is nothing but pressure. All pressure. This pressure is like a heaviness. It's always on top of me, this heaviness. It's always there since I'm a kid. Other people wake up in the morning, 'A new day! Ah, up and at 'em!' I wake up, the heaviness is waiting for me nice. Sometimes I even talk to it. I say [adopts cheerful voice] 'Hi, heaviness!' and the heaviness looks back at me, [in an ominous growl] 'Today you're gonna get it good. You'll be drinking early today.'

I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

Your nightmares follow you like a shadow, forever.

My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare.

Even when you are there on top, you feel the same nerves.

What you fear your whole life comes to pass. You end up living toward it, you spend your life running from it but your foot is nailed to the sidewalk. You circle around it until you wear yourself own.

I've lately had two spiders Crawling upon my startled hopes-- Now though thy friendly hand has brushed 'em from me, Yet still they crawl offensive to mine eyes: I would have some kind friend to tread upon 'em.

Your demons are always with you, Skale answered. His voice seemed even raspier than the day before. Don't you understand that by now? Always with you, impossible to escape. But you never can guess how they might manifest themselves.

In 2003, for my first Rumble, I was just as nervous then as I was 15 years later.

Without realizing that the past is constantly determining their present actions, they avoid learning anything about their history. They continue to live in their repressed childhood situation, ignoring the fact that is no longer exists, continuing to fear and avoid dangers that, although once real, have not been real for a long time.

I'm interested in the way that terror is almost a psychosomatic state. You may have suffered a small injury for a few seconds, but the rest of the year you're constantly on the alert, your injury is constantly with you - and I mean this on a city-wide scale.

I'm still afraid. I'm still afraid every day.