Quotes About Fear

You have to conclude that your country has run amuck, that the people responsible are insane, that you can not trust your leaders, your President, your general, your parents, your friends, your neighbors, your co-workers, your police, your town, your state, your country, anymore because it is liable to turn upon you for no reason at all, except that for its own security it needs a scapegoat, any scapegoat including you, and there is no appeal possible.

Fear is always a good motivator.

The irony of it all is that we in the developed world are the prime polluters, the most destructive of people on the planet, yet although we have the money and the means to prevent the Earth crossing the deadly threshold that will make global change irreversible, we are hampered by fear.

The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant.'—Psalms 25:14.

The bond of our common humanity is stronger than the divisiveness of our fears and prejudices. God gives us the capacity for choice. We can choose to alleviate suffering. We can choose to work together for peace. We can make these changes and we must.

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.

The abandonment depression is first experienced at an age when the young child cannot reflect on it or articulate what is happening. The child simply feels that the flow of life is cruelly disrupted and that he teeters on the verge of annihilation should the vital support of the mother be lost or withheld.

V življenju se nam neštetokrat zgodijo posebna naklju?ja oziroma so?asnosti - tista hipna sre?anja in dogodki, ki v sebi nosijo potencial, da nam popolnoma spremenijo življenje. Mnogo takih trenutkov zgrešimo, ker se morda preprosto prestrašimo tega, kar bi odkrili o sebi, ?e bi se prepustili tej izkušnji.

In the scientific world, "fear" is usually called "skepticism.

You are young, and rich, and have friends, and at such an age I know it is hard to die!

I still don't like going to bed alone.

There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.

About life: "It is not complicated unless I make it so. It is not difficult unless I allow it to be. A second is no more than a second, a minute no more than a minute, a day no more than a day. They pass. All things and all time will pass. Don't force or fear, don't control or lose control. Don't fight and don't stop fighting. Embrace and endure. If you embrace, you will endure.

I would like to be soft and warm. I would be terrified to be that way. I could be hurt if I were soft and warm. I could be hurt by something other than myself. It is harder to be soft than it is to be hard. I could be hurt by something other than myself.

It scares me shitless," I admitted. (The "scared shitless" metaphor derives from the physiological fact that animals in stressful situations-an antelope pursued by a lion, for example-involuntarily defecate to shed excess weight, thus speeding their flight.)

The most dangerous men on earth are those who are afraid they are wimps

The recognition of his carelessness filled Mr. Lecky with fear and anger. In the dusk his eerie heart could anticipate the hours of terror which he had laid up for himself. Sounds, real or imaginary, the silences and secrets of the night, the working of his own mind, skilled in cruel illusion and rich in evil fancy, would find him without recourse.

Who taught us to bow our heads while waiting for trains? to touch lumber without regret and sing privately or not at all? To invest the season with forgiveness and coax from it a hopeful omen? Lord knows the hope would heal this little fear. But who taught us to fear?

Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.

Fear is a huge thing for older people.

Sometimes we act in order not to see.

But now I'm beginning to care again—a little—and it hurts—it's really more convenient not to have any hopes and fears.

Fear of our own depths is the enemy.

Death is only one way of dying; living partially, living fearfully, is our more common, daily collusion with death.