Quotes About Fear

What the deer feels in the second she sees the hunter with his gun I seemed to feel for long stretches of hours and days. I was poised for flight like any creature might be but where I was to flee I didn't know.

Angst ist ein schlecht dressierter Kampfhund, den man nicht an der Leine halten kann, wenn er Blut wittert.

Anxiety eats into the soul and hollows people out from the inside. It also feeds on human time

His memories were like pieces of furniture in an empty house whose previous owner had shrouded them in dust sheets. Until yesterday he'd tried to tear the dust sheets off. Today he was afraid they might be concealing some terrible truth

Manchmal blubbert es, und du denkst, gleich machst du dir in den Schlüpper, doch dann ist es nur Aftersausen?" - Gerlinde

Reinhard Messner hatte einmal nach einer Nahtoderfahrung beim Abstieg vom Mount Everest gesagt, der Vorgang des Sterbens wäre das Leichteste. Schwer wäre es nur vorher. Solange man noch Hoffnung besaesse.Waere aber der feste Entschluss zum Sterben getroffen, ginge alles ganz leicht.

Anxiety eats into the soul and hollows people out from the inside.

Just as the battered wife stops the police from arresting the husband who beats her, Timmy's love for his mother and fear of losing her was much greater and stronger than his fear of further abuse

That's probably the most ridiculous sentence that a man like you could come out with. You always had a choice. You just weren't brave enough to pay the price for your decisions

Despite the imminence of her death and even though she had no idea how it would happen, she no longer felt afraid. This must be what Catholics understand by the purifying power of confession. Deep down inside her, in the shadowy world of her consciousness, she'd always sensed that her life would come to a terrible end. It must do, if an entity existed that ensured justice was done

Los ahuyentó, ni siquiera los expulsó, pues ya ante el primer indicio de amenaza y espanto todos, empezando por el káiser, desaparecieron sin hacer el más mínimo ruido ni dejar el menor rastro, más o menos como, más adelante, entre 1932 y 1933, lo harían los dirigentes de la República. Los políticos alemanes, empezando por los de derechas hasta llegar a los de izquierdas, tienen muy mal perder.

terror, de modo que ninguna de las dos

La población, en definitiva, debía acostumbrarse a vitorear y a ponerse en pie aunque no tuviese ningún motivo real para ello. A su vez, esto fue razón suficiente para que –¡psst!–, todos los días y todas las noches por medio de látigos de acero y taladros percutores se causara la muerte de quienes no participaban con bastante energía. Así que vitoreemos y ululemos con los lobos, heil, heil! Además se le acababa cogiendo el gusto.

La gente comenzó a participar, primero sólo por miedo. Sin embargo, tras haber tomado parte una primera vez, ya no quisieron hacerlo por miedo –eso hubiera sido cruel y despreciable–, así que terminaron incorporando el convencimiento político necesario. Éste es el mecanismo emocional básico del triunfo de la revolución nacionalsocialista.

La razón más sencilla y, con sólo profundizar un poco, la más intrínseca en la mayoría de los casos fue el miedo. Golpear para no pertenecer al grupo de los golpeados.

Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not.

It's fun to go to the movies and be scared.

Shouldn't we fear life? Who steers a safe boat? Around us sorrow swells like a heaving ocean; we can see how the hungry waves lick the ship's sides, how they climb to board her. No safe anchorage, no solid ground, no steady ship, as far as the eye can see; only an unknown sky over an ocean full of trouble!

Ouvira muitas vezes falar do fim do mundo, mas sempre imaginara que este se manifestaria por uma tempestade terrível e um abalo de terra que precipitaria as montanhas nos mares e faria transbordar a água dos lagos, inundando vales e planícies, exterminando todos os seres vivos. Nunca pensara que o fim do mundo pudesse dar-se deste modo, com o céu a cobrir, a esmagar a terra, matando as pessoas por asfixia.

When we met, we were serious and old beyond our years, but then we began to grow backward and now we are two weary, frightened children.

Great minds may have cold hearts. Form but no color. It is an incompleteness. And so they are afraid of any woman who both thinks and feels deeply.

The fearful face usually betrays great guilt.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

There are more things, Lucilius, that frighten us than injure us, and we suffer more in imagination than in reality.