"The anticipation of loss is much more frightening than the actual loss as anticipation leaves room for the imagination to create that which, in all likelihood, will never transpire."
- Craig D. Lounsbrough
"[Patricia Highsmith] was overwhelmed by sensory stimulation - there were too many people and too much noise and she just could not handle the supermarket. She continually jumped, afraid that someone m..."
- Andrew Wilson
"I would suggest that the prisons I incessantly create are not designed to lock me in, rather they are designed to lock the world out. And the oddity is that either way, I am a prisoner who has sentenc..."
"Tommy and Scootie locked eyes. Only minutes ago, he wouldn't have believed that he could ever have felt such a kinship with the Labrador as he felt now."
- Dean Koontz
"Judging by the sounds of general panic, I want a gun like that."
- Howard Tayler
"You shouldn't panic so much," Siris said. "You'll never be a good thief if you panic."
- Sean F. Hogan
"Leaders don't fall in gutters of fear; only negative ideas flow in that canal. There, you will see filthy things like doubts and disbelief."
- Israelmore Ayivor
"Being under stress is like being stranded in a body of water. If you panic, it will cause you to flail around so that the water rushes into your lungs and creates further distress. Yet, by calmly coll..."
- Alaric Hutchinson
"I was extremely worried. What would happen to me now that they knew that I had lost my mind? Would they put me in a padded cell and feed me through a hatch door? Would I end up in one of those places ..."
- Sue Whitaker
"When you face any difficulty, do not panic but pray."
- Lailah Gifty Akita