Bessel van der Kolk Quotes

Fear and aversion, in some perverse way, can be transformed into pleasure.

Bessel van der Kolk

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• I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Fear
  • Myself
  • Goddess

• We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Game
  • Fear
  • Down

• My fear is that people associate Rand Paul's social conservatism with libertarianism, when it's not.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Fear
  • Social

• Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Fear
  • Desire
  • Fall

• Fear of carbs, of gluten, of everything - we've distanced ourselves from the beauty of food, the art of it. It makes me sad when people say, 'Oh, I don't eat gluten. I don't eat cheese. I don't eat this. So I eat cardboard.'

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • People
  • Art
  • Fear

• Fear warps our understanding of reality and even our ability to see reality clearly.

  

  Victor LaValle
  • Reality
  • Fear
  • Understanding

• I think the beauty of the writing of 'Game of Thrones' is not that the characters are fearless; it's how they overcome their fear, you know?

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Writing
  • Game
  • Fear

• I was taught that to create anything you had to believe in failure, simply because you had to be prepared to go through an idea without any fear. Failure, you learned, as I did in art school, to be a wonderful thing. It allowed you to get up in the morning and take the pillow off your head.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Up
  • Believe
  • School

• I love overcoming challenges and fear.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Fear
  • Challenges
  • Overcoming

• I wanted to analyse and understand how the Chinese people could have their lives so crushed by fear.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Fear
  • Understand

• Go, Soul, the body’s guest,Upon a thankless arrant:Fear not to touch the best;The truth shall be thy warrant:Go, since I needs must die,And give the world the lie.Say to the court, it glows.And shines like rotten wood;Say to the church, it showsWhat’s good, and doth no good:If church and court reply,Then give them both the lie.

  

  Walter Raleigh
  • World
  • Good
  • Truth

• I have learned not only that the colors and the sounds of war are the same, but the fears of war are the same. You know, there is a fear of dying.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • War
  • Fear
  • Dying

• It is because you yourself fear the propaganda created, after all, only by the stupidity of your own bigots.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Fear

• We are the boysThat fear no noiseWhere the thundering cannons roar.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Fear

• I have no feud, either with my employers, any sponsors, or with the professional critics of radio and television. But I am seized with an abiding fear regarding what these two instruments are doing to our society, our culture and our heritage.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • Society
  • Culture
  • Fear

• Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts.

  

  Alexandre Dumas
  • Bad
  • Fear
  • Thoughts

• The thirst for powerful sensations takes the upper hand both over fear and over compassion for the grief of others.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Fear
  • Hand
  • Powerful

• Some dreams tell us what we wish to believe. Some dreams tell us what we fear. Some dreams are of what we know though we may not know we knew it. The rarest dream is the dream that tells us what we did not know.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Believe
  • May
  • Dream

• I fear that I am losing my mind. But really, it would not be such a precious thing to lose, as it only causes me pain.

  

  L.A. Meyer
  • Mind
  • Fear
  • Pain

• The western nations of Europe, who now so immeasurably surpass their former savage progenitors, and stand at the summit of civilisation, owe little or none of their superiority to direct inheritance from the old Greeks, though they owe much to the written works of that wonderful people.

  

  Charles Darwin
  • People
  • Savage

• I once said, 'Steve Jobs is the American Xavier Niel,' but that was humour.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • American
  • Said
  • Once

• I'm in agreement with David Miliband when he says our generation of Labour politicians are not willing to hand over the direction of the country without a serious electoral fight.

  

  Douglas Alexander
  • Country
  • Hand
  • Serious

• From the earliest age, I was just different. I think that's part of every writer's little revenge. You think, 'I'm not a blonde, blue-eyed cheerleader but I'm going to get out of here and do something.'

  

  Janine di Giovanni
  • Different
  • Age
  • Blue

• Fear and aversion, in some perverse way, can be transformed into pleasure.

  

  Bessel van der Kolk
  • Fear
  • Pleasure
  • Aversion