Primal Fear Quotes

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  No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Depression, Being Yourself, Men

  1850 The Scarlet Letter, ch.20.

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• I think that's still the most primal fear of all humans: to be eaten.

  Victor Salva

  Thinking, Humans, Stills

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• Possession and exorcism is something that’s in every religion and every culture. It’s a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go?

  Eli Roth

  Real, Doe, Culture

  "Filmmaker Eli Roth returns for another 'Last Exorcism'". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. February 28, 2013.

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• Fear is the most basic emotion we have. Fear is primal. Fear sells.

  Max Brooks

  Emotion, World War Z, Sells

  Max Brooks (2010). “World War Z”, p.48, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• I guarantee if you walk into 100 spider webs, you will have changed your fundamental human behavior. And you can apply this to anything, And figure out a way to reprogram yourself, to change your primal fear.

  Chris Hadfield

  Inspirational, Motivational, Suicide

  "Former ISS Commander Talks About Being Blind in Space" by Jon M. Chang, abcnews.go.com. March 18, 2014.

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• One of my inspirations, Harry Houdini, remains an icon of the art because he defied our primal fears. His demonstrations in the early 20th century, especially his escape from the Chinese water torture cell, represented triumph over suffocation, drowning, disorientation and helplessness.

  Criss Angel

  Art, Inspiration, Cells

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• What I like about the Carpenter take on The Thing is the fact that it just has so much suspense. It seemed like a different story, with the horror elements. Those films that really speak to the primal fear that we, as human beings, have about the unknown have always intrigued me. That's the really scary thing, not the slasher, macabre movies.

  Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje

  Scary, Different, Suspense

  Source: collider.com

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• For me, it's a multitude of things. In the modern world, there's a real genuine fear of loss of individuality and I think the undead speak to that. I also think the idea of the dead coming back to life, and this unstoppable foe that just keeps coming and coming, but rather slowly just chases you, is a real primal fear. It's like a fear of claustrophobia, heights or water.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  Real, Loss, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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• There's something very terrifying about that and very primal about it. It's my belief that what horror does for people is that it provides that primal fear that, when we were wild hunter-gatherers, we had as part of our natural lives because maybe something was trying to hunt and gather you as well. We don't have that anymore in life and that's one of the things that horror films and action films provide for us.

  Paul W. S. Anderson

  People, Trying, Doe

  Source: collider.com

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