The War of the Worlds fear quotes

• ‘And invisible to me because it was so remote and small, flying swiftly and steadily towards me across that incredible distance, drawing nearer every minute by so many thousands of miles, came the Thing they were sending us, the Thing that was to bring so much struggle and calamity and death to the earth.’
• ‘Suddenly, like a thing falling upon me from without, came fear.’
• ‘The fear I felt was no rational fear, but a panic terror not only of the Martians, but of the dusk and stillness all about me.’
• ‘I was a little depressed at first with the contagion of my wife's fears.’
• ‘That was the story I got from him, bit by bit. He grew calmer telling me and trying to make me see the things he had seen.’
• ‘At sight of these strange, swift, and terrible creatures the crowd near the water's edge seemed to me to be for a moment horror-struck. […] I turned with the rush of the people, but I was not too terrified for thought.’
• ‘[…] the coming storm of Fear blew through the streets. It was the dawn of the great panic. London, which had gone to bed on Sunday night oblivious and inert, was awakened, in the small hours of Monday morning, to a vivid sense of danger.’
• ‘But varied as its composition was, certain things all that host had in common. There were fear and pain on their faces, and fear behind them.’
• ‘I must confess the stress and danger of the time have left an abiding sense of doubt and insecurity in my mind.’