Quotes About Fear

The minute the light changes, she told herself firmly; there's no sense. The light changed before she was ready and in the minute before she collected herself traffic turning the corner overwhelmed her and she shrank back against the curb. She looked longingly at the cigar store on the opposite corner, with her apartment house beyond; she wondered, How do people ever manage to get there, and knew that by wondering, by admitting a doubt, she was lost.

Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.

Release and resolve fear, and what you want flows freely.

Pain was nothing but resistance; resistance to the God energy caused by fear. Without fear and resistance, death would simply be a transition to another dimension.

There is darkness in every heart.

When a wolf attacks the flock and devours a lamb, the rest of the lambs panic; they go into a momentary panic. Then they press together and begin to tremble all over.

Madness— that's more up your alley. You're married. I don't dare go meshugge

For geese aren't ducks and chickens, you know. Ducks are scared of the pox. Chickens of polecats. But geese just glut. When it comes to eating, anything goes. Oats, millet, groats, and, begging your pardon, they peck at worse things, too.

We had a good scare in our town when they broke out, because we were afraid pogroms would come next.

I shook so hard from fear that the couch moved from the wall.

It is only the failure of my plots I fear.

Death is the number two fear that people have and public speaking is the first!

It's coming face to face with death that magnifies the values of life force..

There is a smell to failure. It is a stench that clings like a miasma. Just as dogs can detect the odor of fear in a human being, so people can sense when a man is on his way down.

Four or five cockroaches exploded from the inside of his shin pad, scurrying in all directions on the ice. Cockroaches. Those big, black ugly bugs so gross they make beetles look cuddly.

I couldn't understand why he had such an attitude. Most teachers did their best to help hockey players because most of the players wanted education and hockey, and doing both was tough without support from the teachers. Anyway, my first two years in junior hockey had shown me there were better things to be afraid of than someone like this, attitude or not.

The clapping got louder. Sweat ran down my ribs from my armpits. This was a lot scarier than going into sudden-death overtime in a crowded arena.

America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success.

Theoretical considerations require that what is to-day the object of a phobia must at one time in the past have been the source of a high degree of pleasure.

The weakling and the neurotic attached to his neurosis are not anxious to turn such a powerful searchlight upon the dark corners of their psychology.

It has long been our contention that ' dread of society [soziale Angsty is the essence of what is called conscience.

It has long been our contention that ' dread of society [soziale Angst] is the essence of what is called conscience.

If we subject the content of the dream to analysis, we become aware that the dream fear is no more justified by the dream content than the fear in a phobia is justified by the idea upon which the phobia depends.

The demons of animism were usually hostile to man, but it seems as though man had more confidence in himself in those days than later on.