Quotes About Fear

El miedo, del latín metus —dijo—, se mete en la persona por sí mismo, o por la acción de un tercero, en tanto que fobia es un sufijo que nosotros los... aplicamos específicamente a los temores íntimos proyectados a un objeto exterior.»

The truth about eros is terrifying.

Being aware of your fear is smart. Overcoming it is the mark of a successful person.

Anxiety is experiencing failure in advance.

I fear that a life of death has made me numb to both.

I feel rather like a rabbit that has taken a fox for its pupil.

In a way, it was the beginning of something I'd long feared: that vampires would become part of the popular culture. That people would be too busy worshiping them or imitating them or even laughing at them—and forget to fear them.

I'm not interested in what you know," said Herod. "I'm interested in watching you scream." "Then you're going to be disappointed." "We'll see," said Herod with a smile.

10 PLACES TO NEVER, EVER, EVER GO UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES Rooms lit by a single hanging light bulb. Rooms lit by nothing. Any graveyard that isn't Arlington National Cemetery. Summer camps whose annual counselor murder rate exceeds 10 percent. Maine. "The old_____________." Hotels/motels that aren't part of giant international chains. Upstairs. Downstairs. Any log cabin anywhere on the face of the earth.

fearing lest it might seem disrespectful to his memory for me to be on good terms with anyone with whom my father had once vowed to castrate.

Mary is roused to great anxiety by these rumors (but then, she is roused to great anxiety by a great many things).

It's no wonder we're always getting' mistaken for queers. Look at us—a bunch'a proper men, never growin' old, 'angin' about in the dark, bitin' other men on the neck. They don't fear us 'cause we got claws and fangs; they fear us 'cause they think we're comin' after their sons.

I have no more fear of hell, for I have this day seen it with my own eyes.

Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.

This house … is clean. —POLTERGEIST (1982)

That was horrifying. Fear had blinded me to this but the situation had changed. What if I were found out? Exposed. Prosecuted. Disbarred. My life would crumble. I would have no job, my prospects would be dismal, and it was impossible to know how Spaulding would react. And the only person whose opinion mattered, the only one, was Spaulding.

It doesn't matter that Bush scares the hell out of me. What matters is that he scares the hell out of a lot of very important people in Washington who can't speak out, in the military, in the intelligence community.

The mathophobia endemic in contemporary culture blocks many people from learning anything they recognize as 'math,' although they may have no trouble with mathematical knowledge they do not perceive as such.

But how could you know the limits of your courage if you never put it to the test?

The reason why darkness terrifying for us, he reflected, is that there remains in us the instinctive fear the primitive man had when there was as yet no light.

in the distance across the dark fields I saw a flame. With the rainy season, the fireflies had long since disappeared. What then could this be? The flame flickered, now brightly, no dimly, and sometimes it glowed like a halo, as if it had sunk deep into water. I was frightened by this flame. For in my heart I, too, carried a flame.

Together, those inaccurate messages, through lifelong repetition, have created every negative belief you have about yourself today. Your self-doubts, your imagined inadequacies, most of your fears, and everything you believe incorrectly about who you are today, are the result of the repetition of inaccurate messages to your brain.

You know, I think we Indians are afraid to show and celebrate our happiness, lest things change around. But I feel that it's okay to be sad and okay to show when you are happy.

Often I don't say hello to people for fear that they may not remember me.