Quotes About Fear

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

You seemed so desperate, like you might drown if someone didn't save you.

Here you are...A beautiful girl with nothing to be ashamed of...And yet you are afraid to look at me. Someone has been cruel to you...Or perhaps life has been cruel. I don't know sir I said, Though of course I knew perfectly well.

In the instant before the door opened, I could almost sense my life expanding just like a river whose waters have begun to swell; for I had never before taken such a drastic step to change the course of my own future. I was like a child tiptoeing along a precipice overlooking the sea. And yet somehow I hadn't imagined a great wave might come and strike me there, and wash everything away.

Most nights I lay on my futon I was sick with anxiety, and felt a pit inside myself as big and empty as if the world were nothing more than giant hall empty of people.

dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes consume us completely.

I won't say I'd never wondered what might happen if she should die; I did wonder about it, in the same way I wondered what might happen if our house were swallowed up in an earthquake. There could hardly be life after such an event.

Tuga je vrlo neobi?an osje?aj, tako smo bespomo?ni kad se s njome suo?imo. To je nešto poput prozora koji se otvara po vlastitoj volji. Soba se hladi, a mi možemo samo bespomo?no drhtati.

The world was simply too cruel; how could I survive?

Mamita! -exclamé-. ¡Yo no puedo ir en avión! -Si estás sentada en él cuando despega, no podrás evitarlo.

Zato snovi mogu biti tako opasni:oni tinjaju poput prigušene vatre,a ponekad se vatra rasplamsa i potpuno nas proguta.

Tuga je vrlo neobi?an osje?aj, tako smo bespomo?ni kad se s njome suo?imo. To je nešto poput prozora koji se otvara po vlastitoj volji. Soba se hladi, a mi možemo samo bespomo?no drhtati. Me?utim, prozor se svaki put otvori malo manje, pa još manje i jednog se dana pitamo gdje je nestao.

Everyone knows that a wounded tiger is a dangerous beast.

Granny, as I went on to learn, was more terrified of fire than beer is of a thirsty old man.

So let me tell you, Nicky, there's nothing wrong with being scared to death. It can happen to the best. What counts is hanging on, somehow staying in control and doing what you know you should.

Zo komt elke angst in de wereld, zomaar, omdat iemand op een dag besluit te geloven dat er een gevaar bestaat.

Later begreep ik dat er mensen bestaan die van het koesteren van dromen juist onrustig worden. Stel je toch voor dat iedereen zo dacht, dan zou er nergens meer gedanst worden.

At the level of ego-psychology', wrote Mowrer in his survey on 'Motivation' in the Annual Review for 1952, 'there may be said to be only one master motive: anxiety.

Hay dos clases de valentía: la del valiente y la del cobarde

But the revival of a dynamic psychology which reinstated the academic respectability of such terms as curiosity, exploratory drive, purpose, only came about when experimental evidence showed that even in the rat the urge to explore may prevail over hunger and fear.

Let either of you breathe a word, or the edge of a word, about the other things, and I will come to you in the black of some terrible night and I will bring a pointy reckoning that will shudder you. And you know I can do it; I saw Indians smash my dear parents' heads on the pillow next to mine, and I have seen some reddish work done at night, and I can make you wish you had never seen the sun go down! - Abigail

There is prodigious fear in seeking loose spirits

If she is innocent! Why do you never wonder if Parris be innocent, or Abigail? Is the accuser always holy now? Were they born this morning as clean as God's fingers? I'll tell you what's walking Salem—vengeance is walking Salem. We are what we always were in Salem, but now the little crazy children are jangling the keys of the kingdom, and common vengeance writes the law!

Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the veils of illusion as it disappears.