Panic Quotes

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  Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

  Graham Greene

  Love, Depression, Fear

  New York Times, January 8, 1981.

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• Panic is highly contagious, especially in situations when nothing is known and everything is in flux.

  Stephen King

  Flux, Situation, Contagious

  Stephen King (2016). “The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass”, p.598, Simon and Schuster

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• Panic causes tunnel vision. Calm acceptance of danger allows us to more easily assess the situation and see the options.

  Simon Sinek

  Acceptance, Tunnels, Vision

  "Failure Is An Option: Simon Sinek". www.askmen.com.

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• But fear - panic - knows no reason. It brings into being overnight the things that it fears. It is the greatest torment of humanity. Fear is, in short, the devil. It causes most of the sin, disaster, disease and misery of the world. It is the ravening lion roaming the earth seeking whom it may...devour. The only refuge is in the knowledge that it has no power other than the power you give it.

  Robert Collier

  Giving, Humanity, Devil

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• Sometimes heroism is nothing more than patience, curiosity, and a refusal to panic.

  Leif Enger

  Curiosity, Heroism, Sometimes

  Leif Enger (2009). “So Brave, Young, and Handsome: A Novel”, p.287, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We experience moments absolutely free from worry. These brief respites are called panic.

  Cullen Hightower

  Worry, Experience, Moments

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• This is not a time to keep the facts from the people-to keep them complacent. To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public. For, as the poet Dante once said: 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality.

  John F. Kennedy

  People, Neutrality, Facts

  Speech, Tulsa, Okla., 16 Sept. 1959 (printed in John F. Kennedy, The Strategy of Peace, ed. Allan Nevins [1960]).

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• If you panic that's a good way to lose. You have to stay in control.

  Ted Turner

  Way, Ifs, Loses

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• Laughing at fear is one of the best things you can do. When you are afraid, instead of just plunging into panic, laugh. The fear gets really uptight and leaves.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Laughing, Balance

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• Each is liable to panic, which is exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination. Knowledge is the encourager, knowledge that takes fear out of the heart, knowledge and use, which is knowledge in practice. They can conquer who believe they can. It is he who has done the deed once who does not shrink from attempting again.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Believe, Ignorance, Knowledge

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.235

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• Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Fear, Imagination, Worry

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• It’s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.

  Thomas Sowell

  Hypocrite, Men, Honest

  Thomas Sowell (1993). “Is Reality Optional?: And Other Essays”, Hoover Inst Press

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• If I panic, everyone else panics.

  Kobe Bryant

  Ifs

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• Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

  Elizabeth Kenny

  Nursing, Play, Nurse

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• Panic is our great enemy.

  Melody Beattie

  Enemy

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Melody Beattie 4 Title Bundle: Codependent No More and 3 Other Best Sellers by Melody Beattie: A collection of four Melody Beattie best sellers”, Hazelden Publishing

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• Dread of disaster makes everybody act in the very way that increases the disaster. Psychologically the situation is analogous to that of people trampled to death when there is a panic in a theatre caused by a cry of `Fire!'.

  Bertrand Russell

  Fire, People, Theatre

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.64, Routledge

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• Anything can happen; this is the very rule of this universe! The best defence against this rule is this: Don't panic!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Wise, Anything Can Happen, Defence

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• Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

  Vannevar Bush

  Courage, Fear, Evaluation

  VANNEVAR BUSH (1949). “MODERN ARMS AND FREE MEN: A DISCUSSION OF THE ROLE OF SCIENCE IN PRESERVING DEMOCRACY”

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• Emotions are far more contagious than any disease. A smile or a panic will spread through a group of people far faster than any virus ever could. When you walk into the office or a negotiation, then, wash your bad mood away before you see us. Don't cough on us, don't sneeze on us, sure, but don't bring your grouchiness, your skepticism or your fear in here either. It might spread.

  Seth Godin

  Motivational, Office, People

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• Panic is not an effective long-term organizing strategy.

  Starhawk

  Stress, Long, Strategy

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• To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public.

  John F. Kennedy

  Alarms, Sound, Action

  Speech, Tulsa, Okla., 16 Sept. 1959 (printed in John F. Kennedy, The Strategy of Peace, ed. Allan Nevins [1960]).

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• One of the ways that our faith expresses itself is by our ability to be still, to be present, and not to panic or lose perspective. God still does his best work in the most difficult of circumstances.

  Tim Hansel

  Perspective, Doe, Way

  Tim Hansel (1995). “Keep on Dancin': Daily Readings to Celebrate Life”, Chariot Family Pub

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• When we panic, we instinctively turn to our own internal resources because we doubt Him.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Fear, Doubt, Resources

  Charles R. Swindoll (2008). “Great Lives: Jesus Bible Companion: The Greatest Life of All”, p.67, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Anxiety is love's greatest killer. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Life, Marriage

  Diary, Feb. 1947

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• Panic is the sudden realization that everything around you is alive.

  William S. Burroughs

  Realization, Alive, Paranoia

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