Terror Quotes

• My mother taught me to read before I went to school, so I was pretty bored in school, and I turned into a little terror. You should have seen us in third grade. We basically destroyed our teacher. We would let snakes loose in the classroom and explode bombs.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • School
  • Mother
  • Terror

• What I'm talking about is actually is the Mystery of Being as existential fact. That there is something that haunts this world that can take apart and reduce every single one of us to a mixture of terror and ecstasy, fear and trembling. It is not an idea, that's the primary thing to bear in mind. It's an experience.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • World
  • Mind
  • Mystery

• Ecstasy is not simply joy. Ecstasy is an emotion of great complexity that hovers almost on the edge of terror sometimes.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Joy
  • Sometimes
  • Emotion

• We cannot simply suspend or restrict civil liberties until the War on Terror is over, because the War on Terror is unlikely ever to be truly over.

  

  Gerald Bard Tjoflat
  • War
  • Over
  • Liberties

• Managing your terror all by yourself gives rise to another set of problems: dissociation, despair, addictions, a chronic sense of panic, and relationships that are marked by alienation, disconnections, and explosions. Patients with these histories rarely make the connection between what has happened to them a long time ago and how they currently feel and behave. Everything just seems unmanageable.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Problems
  • Connection
  • Panic

• Writing has often been accompanied by terror, silences, and then wild bursts of private laughter that suddenly make all the dread seem worthwhile.

  

  Erica Jong
  • Writing
  • Silence
  • Laughter

• One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • War
  • Problem
  • Crisis

• I guess I can't blame him for feeling bitter. Going from being the terror of Bulgarian nights to a janitor would kinda suck

  

  Kiersten White
  • Night
  • Feelings
  • Blame

• How will you know that you love, if there is no terror of losing? Is it love at all, if there is no risk? If it is safe?

  

  Elizabeth Bear
  • Love
  • Risk
  • Terror

• We will stand mighty for peace and freedom and maintain a strong defense against terror and destruction. Our children will sleep free from the threat of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Freedom
  • Peace
  • Destruction

• It takes tremendous energy to keep functioning while carrying the memory of terror, and the shame of utter weakness and vulnerability.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Energy
  • Memory
  • Weakness

• The quick, sudden terror of exploding bombs is not the same as the never-ending, bone-sapping fear of discovery and capture. It never goes away. There isn’t ever any relief, never the possibility of an ‘All Clear’ siren. You always feel a little bit sick inside, knowing the worst might happen at any moment.

  

  Elizabeth Wein
  • Knowing
  • Possibility
  • Discovery

• I had a terror-since September -I could tell to none-and so I sing, as the Boy does by the Burying Ground-because I am afraid.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Afraid
  • September
  • Terror

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