Panic Quotes

“Don't panic. Midway through writing a novel, I have regularly experienced moments of bowel-curdling terror, as I contemplate the drivel on the screen before me and see beyond it, in quick succession, the derisive reviews, the friends' embarrassment, the failing career, the dwindling income, the repossessed house, the divorce . . . Working doggedly on through crises like these, however, has always got me there in the end. Leaving the desk for a while can help. Talking the problem through can help me recall what I was trying to achieve before I got stuck. Going for a long walk almost always gets me thinking about my manuscript in a slightly new way. And if all else fails, there's prayer. St Francis de Sales, the patron saint of writers, has often helped me out in a crisis. If you want to spread your net more widely, you could try appealing to Calliope, the muse of epic poetry, too.”
― Sarah Waters

“[T]he relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios--the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so that you could have something really hot to talk about--was still startling. We call disasters unimaginable, but all we do is imagine such things. That, you could conclude mordantly, is the real soundtrack of our time: the amplification of the self-evident toward the creation of paralyzing, preëmptive paranoia.”
― Adam Gopnik

“[Pope] Clement waved his hands in irritation as if to dismiss the very idea. "The world is crumbling into ruin. Armies are marching. Men and women are dying everywhere, in huge numbers. Fields are abandoned and towns deserted. The wrath of the Lord is upon us and He may be intending to destroy the whole of creation. People are without leaders and direction. They want to be given a reason for this, so they can be reassured, so they will return to their prayers and their obiediences. All this is going on, and you are concerned about the safety of two Jews?”
― Iain Pears, The Dream of Scipio

“Scared people did scary things sometimes, even kids.”
― Michael Grant, Gone

“Something like panic struck at Hurlow. Moffat's calm confession of fear withdrew the prop upon which he had leaned. Down there, among the motionless shadows, lurked invisible things, things that were nameless, shapeless and malignant; things which could see without being seen. One of the long lost terrors of childhood returned to him, and like a child he put his hand into Moffat's.”
― A.M. Burrage

“You start to feel panic, because you realise that human beings are possessed by the idea that they must fill the world with objects and ideas that will outlive them, and you suddenly glimpse the fires that burn below human despair.”
― Greg Baxter, The Apartment

“We don't shout 'Don't panic !'
towards anyone who's in panic.”
― Toba Beta

“Se tudo o resto não me basta por que hei-de impedir o efeito paliativo das benzodiazepinas e a volúpia desta evocação alucinatória?
If everything else is not enough for me why should I stop the palliative effect of benzodiazepines and the lust of this hallucinatory evocation?”
― Victor Eustáquio, O Carrossel de Lúcifer

“A panic that has seized on a few sheep will soon extend to the whole flock.”
― Gustave Le Bon, Gyan Publishing House The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind

“Even panicking, I hadn’t wasted a single moment for inaction. That way was a certain death. I was on a path and there was just one exit.”
― Audranasa, Green-Eyed Shadow Looks at the King 1

“He was wild with panic. That familiar, friendly darkness kissed the edges of his periphery, soothing, urging him to come into it and feel peace.”
― Molly Collier, The Paragon

“Panic is not illness, but wiring. An old survival system, screaming fire where no fire is. Avoidance was the trap. Fear of fear. The only way through was toward.”
― Ben Tor, Death in Driftless Hollow

“I have been afflicted too many times by that curiously bleak despair that the small hours of the night can impart not to welcome its more munificent twin with open arms.”
― Dixe Wills, At Night: A Journey Round Britain from Dusk Till Dawn

“I grabbed hold of the altar rail to keep from falling, and then I couldn't seem to let go of it. It was so cold-the cold going right through me, taking my strength away. You know you see skaters on an ice rink, clinging to the side because they're scared to move out onto the ice? That's what I must have looked like. I just leaned against the rail, with my head spinning, and people screaming and running all
around me.”
― Mike Carey, Vicious Circle

“Breathe in for four, out for eight. He remembers telling Ruth this when she began to suffer from panic attacks. But it's easier to advise other people.”
― Elly Griffiths, The Last Remains

“Someone just broke into your house and they are looking for you…you don’t have a phone to call the police. Do you A. Go toward them w/a weapon of sorts to combat or B. Hide w/weapon of sorts until they find you?

I’m going straight toward them because the way my anxiety is set up, nobody puts baby in a corner! Sitting in a closet wouldn’t work for me. I’m shooting everything that moves.”
― Niedria Kenny

“They had both feared as much, but the reality was worse than the fear and it settled over them like an icy blanket.”
― David Ball, China Run

“When human beings lack a sense of identity, they often do apparently pointless things, simply to give themselves a sense of existence-through-action; this could explain the apparently aimless mischief of the poltergeist.”
― Colin Wilson, Poltergeist!

“No!" I screamed as a flash of light engulfed us, smoke swallowing us whole.
The last thing I heard from the vampire lord's mansion as we disappeared was Ryker's panicked scream.
"”
― Sabrina Blackburry, Dirty Lying Dragons

“Freedom of speech: Covers both jokes and criticism. If the joke’s bad, laugh at the comedian. If the”
― Dipti Dhakul,

“My residents screamed. Never a good sign when Preternatural creatures freaked out.”
― C.L. McCollum, 13 County Road 666

“... Why do bank runs commence? The answer is psychology period some customers or counterparties come to believe a bank will not repay them so they pull their money out or close transactions as quickly as possible. They are not reassured by ... Press releases or positive comments by management. Word spreads, the withdrawals accelerate, and within days, sometimes hours, the bank closes its doors. From there it's an open issue whether the lost confidence spreads to other banks, in a process called contagion. No amount of capital or comment can stop a bank panic; it has a life of its own.”
― James Rickards, MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

“... why do bank runs commence? The answer is psychology. Some customers or counterparties come to believe a bank will not repay them so they pull their money out or close transactions as quickly as possible. They are not reassured by ... press releases or positive comments by management. Word spreads, the withdrawals accelerate, and within days, sometimes hours, the bank closes its doors. From there it's an open issue whether the lost confidence spreads to other banks, in a process called contagion. No amount of capital or comment can stop a bank panic; it has a life of its own.”
― James Rickards, MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

“If insolvency is not transparent or well understood, and if illiquidity is backstopped by the Federal Reserve, then why do bank runs commence? The answer is psychology. Some customers or counterparties come to believe a bank will not repay them so they pull their money out or close transactions as quickly as possible. They are not reassured by ... press releases or positive comments by management. Word spreads, the withdrawals accelerate, and within days, sometimes hours, the bank closes its doors. From there it's an open issue whether the lost confidence spreads to other banks, in a process called contagion. No amount of capital or comment can stop a bank panic; it has a life of its own.
...
Enter AI. The next bank run may be triggered not by human panic but by AI imitating human panic. An AI bank analysis program with deeply layered neural networks and machine learning capability (perhaps complimented by a GPT capacity to speak with human analysts) Could read millions of pages of financial data on thousands of individual banks, far more than any team of human analysts could review. It's training set of materials provides familiarity with the dynamics of bank runs, basically an emerging property of a complex dynamic system, along with historical examples, worst case scenarios, and defensive moves. Events like the gold corner of 1869, the panic of 1907, the Great Depression of the 1930s, and the S&L crisis of the 1980s would all seem as fresh as today's news. This system would reach the same conclusion as a human analyst — move first, get your money out fast, don't be the last in line.
The true danger is not that the machine thinks like a human — it's supposed to. The danger is that it can act faster and communicate with other machines.”
― James Rickards, MoneyGPT: AI and the Threat to the Global Economy

“When the ground shifts beneath you, don’t rush to balance—learn to plant. Roots don’t panic. They deepen.”
― Lawrence Nault

“Denial wrestled with knowledge and won. Panic ricocheted against numbness.”
― Rita Kay, Shhh… Don’t Say It: A Memoir in Fragments on Trauma, Abuse, CPTSD, and Healing

“Sometimes it’s not doubt, it’s just me panicking, not that God has ever failed me before.”
― Genereux Uwabunkonye Philip

“It’s just me panicking, not that God has ever failed me before.”
― Genereux U. Philip

“The management has exploited our wish for infallible systems: here is the water, there is the land, no one can make a mistake. Up to this line there is no danger; on the other side of the line waits certain death. Therefore the alarm wails and the guests flee from their rooms with their clothes fluttering around them. The illusion of complete safety so long as the margin is not reached bears the reverse implication of complete panic once the margin is exceeded. It is easier to choose these sharp demarcation lines than uncertainty in our individual situation; the adjustment has been so small that in itself it is not disastrous, but could contribute to disaster.”
― Sven Holm, Termush

“You still don’t know how to turn your mind off. And it’s this obsessive overthinking that’s hurting you more than the specific people and situations that you can’t stop thinking about.”
― Curtis Tyrone Jones