Panic Quotes - Page 23

• ‎'All we need is a book,' roared Leslie; 'don't panic, hit 'em with a book.

  Gerald Durrell

  Book, Needs, Ems

  Gerald Durrell, Lee Durrell (1996). “The best of Gerald Durrell”, Harpercollins

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• The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.

  Oswald Chambers

  Spiritual, Degrees, Life Is

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.324, Discovery House

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• What would killing the Elders result in?" "Panic? Fear? Three empty parking spaces in the Sanctuary?

  Derek Landy

  Space, Three, Sanctuary

  Derek Landy (2015). “Skulduggery Pleasant -”, p.182, HarperCollins UK

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• Don’t panic, I thought. But already my breathing was faster, shallower. “You mean you can feel happy or sad or—” “Desire.” A barely-there smile.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Mean, Breathing, Desire

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2012). “Hush, Hush”, p.314, Simon and Schuster

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• Awareness of insanity does not make one any less insane. Awareness of drowning does not make one any less of a drowning person--it only adds the burden of panic

  Guillermo del Toro

  Insanity, Insane, Doe

  Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan (2011). “The Night Eternal”, p.13, HarperCollins UK

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• I know how this feels: the tightening of the chest, the panic, the what-have-I-done-wait-I-was-kidding. Eating disorders linger so long undetected, eroding the body in silence, and then they strike. The secret is out. You're dying.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Long, Silence, Waiting

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia”, p.6, Harper Collins

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• Part of their problem was Percy. He fought like a demon, whirling through the defender's ranks in a completely unorthodox style, rolling under their feet, slashing with his sword instead of stabbing like a Roman would, whacking campers with the flat of his blade, and generally causing mass panic.

  Rick Riordan

  Feet, Style, Unorthodox

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• My mind’s screaming went unvoiced. Logic grabbed the panic and wrestled it to the ground.

  Maria V. Snyder

  Mind, Logic

  Maria V. Snyder (2012). “Poison Study”, p.195, Harlequin

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• Judging by the sounds of general panic, I want a gun like that.

  Howard Tayler

  Gun, Judging, Sound

  "Schlock Mercenary". Webcomic by Howard Tayler, www.schlockmercenary.com. January 16, 2002.

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• Once I'm on my feet i realize escape might not be so simple, panic begins to set in. i can't stay here. flight is essential but i can't let my fear show. Winning means fame and fortune, losing mean certain death, The Hunger Games have begun . . .

  Suzanne Collins

  Mean, Winning, Simple

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• You're my life, Elle. When we have our children, they'll be included in that circle and I'm not a man to lose everything. I want you as safe as possible." "So you don't think three protection dogs, a room filled with weapons, a panic room and house that eats people isn't just a little overkill?

  Christine Feehan

  Dog, Children, Men

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• Then suddenly the Mole felt a great Awe fall upon him, an awe that turned his muscles to water, bowed his head, and rooted his feet to the ground. It was no panic terror - indeed he felt wonderfully at peace and happy - but it was an awe that smote and held him and, without seeing, he knew it could only mean that some august presence was very, very near.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Fall, Mean, August

  Kenneth Grahame (2012). “The Wind in the Willows: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.71, Penguin

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• These problems have been here so long that the only way I’ve been able to function at all is by learning to ignore them. Else I would be in a constant state of panic, unable to think or act constructively.

  Mark Bowden

  Thinking, Long, Would Be

  Mark Bowden (2011). “Worm: The First Digital World War”, p.186, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Taking a deep breath that smelled of rain, she was poised to move when a hand clasped her elbow. Memories of another hand grabbing her sent panic shooting through her veins. She swung around. "Whoa. You okay?" Lucas lightened his clasp around her arm. Kylie caught her breath and stared up at the werewolf's blue eyes. "Yeah. You just...surprised me. You need to whistle when you come up on me.

  C.C. Hunter

  Memories, Rain, Moving

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• my brain had begun to endure its familiar siege: panic and dislocation, and a sense that my thought processes were being engulfed by a toxic and unnameable tide that obliterated any enjoyable response to the living world.

  William Styron

  Brain, Toxic, World

  William Styron (1990). “Darkness visible: a memoir of madness”, Random House Incorporated

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• I've learned that you can't make someone love you. All you can do is stalk them and hope they'll panic and give in.

  Emo Philips

  Love, Giving, I've Learned

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• I think that was a moment of cool panic there.

  Ron Atkinson

  Athlete, Thinking, Moments

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Every great panic we have ever had has been foreshadowed by a general decline in observance of religious principles.

  Roger Babson

  Religious, Integrity, Patriotic

  Roger Ward Babson (1920). “Fundamentals of Prosperity: What They are and Whence They Come”

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• What is an "instant" death anyway? How long is an instant? Is it one second? Ten? The pain of those seconds must have been awful as her heart burst and her lungs collapsed and there was no air and no blood to her brain and only raw panic. What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.

  John Green

  Pain, Real, Heart

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.110, Penguin

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• To stay with that shakiness-to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling stomach, with the feeling of hopelessness and wanting to get revenge-that is the path of true awakening. Sticking with that uncertainty, getting the knack of relaxing in the midst of chaos, learning not to panic-this is the spiritual path.

  Pema Chodron

  Broken Heart, Spiritual, Buddhist

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.14, Shambhala Publications

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• What obsesses a writer starting out on a lifetime's work is the panic-stricken search for a voice of his own.

  John Mortimer

  Voice, Starting Out, Lifetime

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• So please take a seat if you really can't stand it, got success in my pocket and these rappers in a panic

  Drake

  Hater, Rapper, Pockets

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• Can you dissolve your ego? Can you abandon the idea of self and other? Can you relinquish the notions of male and female, short and long, life and death? Can you let go of all these dualities and embrace the Tao without skepticism or panic? If so, you can reach the heart of the Integral Oneness.

  Laozi

  Letting Go, Heart, Self

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• Weather Panic! This is the New Normal (and We're Hopelessly Unprepared)

  Sharon Begley

  Weather, New Normal, Energy

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• I lay in bed and watched moments break into phenomenal particles of panic and could actually see the divine crack of God’s ass as he completely turned his back on me.

  Arthur Nersesian

  Bed, Cracks, Ass

  Arthur Nersesian (2010). “Dogrun”, p.113, Simon and Schuster

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