Quotes About Fear

Nothing is worse than the coarseness and meanness we perpetrate out of timidity.

Cine ÅŸi-a v?zut figura în ipostaza grotesc? nu se va putea uita niciodat?, fiindc? se va teme totdeauna de el însuÅŸi. Disperarea este urmat? de o neliniÅŸte extrem de chinuitoare. Åži ce face acest grotesc altceva decît s? actualizeze ÅŸi s? intensifice teama ÅŸi neliniÅŸtea?

Sauve qui peut.

A man who trembles dreams of making others tremble, a man who lives in terror ends his days in ferocity. Hence the case of the Roman emperors.

Wherever civilized men appeared for the first time, they were regarded by the natives as devils, as ghosts, specters. Never as living men! Unequaled intuition, a prophetic insight, if ever there was one.

Once my body gives me the slip, how, I wonder, with such carrion on my hands, will I combat the capitulation of my organs?

We do not rush toward death, we flee the catastrophe of birth, survivors struggling to forget it. Fear of death is merely the projection into the future of a fear which dates back to our first moment of life.

When I lie awake far into the night, I am visited by my evil

In order to conquer panic or some tenacious anxiety, there is nothing like imagining your own burial.

We do not rush toward death, we flee the catastrophe of birth

If a man loves nothing, he will be invulnerable" (Chuang Tse).

The more closely we scrutinize our tomorrows, the closer we come to and the more we flee this people: all of us tremble at the obligation to resemble it some day . .

Forced to face their depths and fearing them, the Jews try to bypass, to elude them by clinging to the trifles of conversation: they talk, they talk . .

Panic in the face of anything—of presence, of the void, of anything. Original panic.

For it ends only to be replaced by fear

Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.

Crime in full glory consolidates authority by the sacred fear it inspires.

Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?

Life inspires more dread than death - it is life which is the great unknown.

The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion...one would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.

I have tried to protect myself against men, to react against their madness to discern its source; I have listened and I have seen--and I have been afraid of acting for the same motives or for any motive whatever, of believing in the same ghosts or in any other ghost, of letting myself be engulfed by the same intoxications or by some other... afraid, in short, of raving in common and of expiring in a horde of ecstasies.

I així, sense voler-ho, el seu excés d'amor em va encomanar un rebuig per qualsevol sentiment i fins i tot una por als acostaments emotius i vibrants cap a una altra persona. Vaig aprendre una lliçó per fugir de tot compromís sentimental: a més estimació, més perills de tota mena. No t'acostis i no et cremaràs. L'amor crema. L'amor consumeix. L'amor mata.

Time is a random thing. It is the thing that makes us older. Humans use it to organize the world. They have invented a system to try to make order from randomness. The other humans, all of them but me, live their lives by hours and minutes and days and seconds, but those things are nothing. The universe would laugh at our attempts to organize it, if it could be bothered to notice them. Time is the thing that makes our bodies shrivel and decay. That is why people are scared of it.

Race is a social construction for which there is no scientific basis; racism is the foundation of that construction...but when I am out in the world with my daughters, it is not a construction or it's consequences that I fear will hurt them. What I fear are human beings, white human beings, who are not made of theory, but of flesh and blood.