Fear Quotes
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Never before have I imagined my life without him—like this house, he is my only point of reference in this difficult existence, this unstable and frightening world. The thought of his leaving home fills me with a terror so strong, it takes my breath away. I feel like one of those seagulls covered in oil from a spill, drowning in a black tar of fear.
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The people want wholesome dread. They want to fear something. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive.
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Personally, I don't want to own a dog that inspires fear. I choose my dogs carefully, have their temperaments observed and evaluated, train and socialize them day after day. Yet I know any dog can be unpredictable.
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Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance.
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My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am.
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Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset children from it. A healthy scare is as good as as a healthy laugh. In fact, they're two sides of the same coin. There is a desire to shield from the knocks and bumps of reality.
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I don't fear death because I believe it is a transition. Our souls can't be destroyed. I know we are going to live in another life.
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The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
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For my generation, coming of age at the height of the Cold War, fear of nuclear winter seemed the leading existential threat on the horizon. But the danger posed by war to all humanity-and to our planet-is at least matched by climate change.
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Overconfidence comes from fear and doubt, and you boast an ego when you're feeling less than.
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The moment I let fear slip in is the moment that the fights are gonna start getting closer and closer.
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If there is any form of contagion that is adaptive, it is the immediate response to the fear of others. If others are fearful, there may be good reason for you to be fearful too.
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I could write an entertaining novel about rejection slips, but I fear it would be overly long.
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More than fantasy or even science fiction, Ray Bradbury wrote horror, and like so many great horror writers he was himself utterly without fear, of anything. He wasn't afraid of looking uncool - he wasn't scared to openly love innocence, or to be optimistic, or to write sentimentally when he felt that way.
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It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust.
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If people did not fear me so, how could anyone tolerate me?
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Any country that has Milton Friedman as an adviser has nothing to fear from a few million Arabs.
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Turn to the light. Don't fear the shadow it creates.
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I have trust issues with allowing other individuals to know my innermost secrets for fear of how I may be viewed. Everyone has this.
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Always question your fear, Anh. there's almost never a good reason to be scared.
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Use the energy that fear creates to focus the mind more intently on the present moment - where fear doesn't exist.
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I don't fear challenge.
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Instead of harboring fear and suspicion we need to think of other people not as ‘them’ but ‘us’.
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The younger me was motivated by a need to please others, by the pressure to climb the corporate ladder and make money, and by a fear of failure - all of which became more and more intense as I navigated the competitive landscape.
