Quotes About Fear

There is a reason that Russian troops in both Moscow and Beslan acted in ways that maximized bloodshed; they actually aimed to maximize the fear and the horror. This is the classic modus operandi of terrorists, and in this sense it can certainly be said that Putin and the terrorists were acting in concert.

The truth of the matter is that we are careening into our darkest moment yet, and we look ridiculous doing it.

It was a stunning blow to learn that there was no warrant for my arrest, much less an international all-points bulletin. I had lived for years like a hunted animal, while no one at all was looking for me, not even back home. That's injustice for you.

This is death during wartime and it is capricious as shit.

we are also creatures with a fear of approaching others because we are afraid of the unknown and cannot totally predict how a stranger will respond to our approach, or to the first words that pour out of our mouths. This oxymoronic fact made me wonder why and how can we get past this strange awkwardness or discomfort. After

The stories can push people to want to go see Africa, for example, or can totally scare them and steer them away from getting anywhere near Africa. It depends on what kind of an impact you want your stories to have on the listener.

We get nervous or anxious when talking to new people. It is because people are generally uncomfortable with the unknown. You

story of a philosopher who runs when a bear charges him and his friend.

It's no good, you'll never outrun a bear," says the logical friend.

Nancy Wexler fears that science is now in the position of Tiresias, the blind seer of Thebes.

The fear of God reigning in the heart is the beauty of the soul.

But honestly, isn't that adulthood in a summary? Constant feelings of pure, overwhelming dread?

I realize how utterly amazing it is that we're all able as humans to go about our daily lives without constantly obsessing over the fact that each of us will almost certainly be in a sterile bed someday, medicated and slowly dying. This officially marks the most depressing thing that has ever crossed my mind.

All the stuff she says on the radio. It's just fear. The world is leaving people like her behind, and it scares the shit out of her.

Generally speaking, it's difficult not to be at least mildly terrified of a girl who might, at any moment, take her shirt off.

I realize how utterly amazing it is that we're all able as humans to go about our daily lives without constantly obsessing over the fact that each of us will almost certainly be in a sterile bed someday, medicated and slowly dying. This officially marks the most depressing thing that has ever crossed my mind.

Generally speaking, it's difficult not to be at least mildly terrified of a girl who might, at any moment, take her shirt off. But

Stevenson threw back his head and made a slow murmuring sound, If only I could secure a violent death. Pardon? What a fine success! Stevenson continued, spurring Jack into a canter as he lost himself in his thoughts. I wish to die in my boots, you see, Mr. Porter. To be drowned, to be shot, to be thrown from this horse into a ditch, Mr. Fergins--aye, to be hanged, rather than pass through the slow dissolution of illnesses!

His life was a suicide. He gave up his soul for fear, little by little, until there was nowhere left in the universe but hell.

He began to understand why some people feared the dark so much. The sheer helplessness of not knowing what was right in front of you was terrifying.

Holy shit, she thought. The dragons are throwing cars at me!

Human fears are very often irrational constructs of the mind.

Such terrifying powers we possess, but what a sorry lot of gods some men are. And the worst of it is not the cruelty but the arrogance, the sheer hubris of those who bring only violence and fear into the animal world, as if it needed any more of either.

A helpless elephant hunted by sharpshooters waiting by the water hall, a deer fleeing the hunter or dying on a highway, a pig or lamb or calf trapped amid the bedlam, - they cannot draw a meaning from their hardship, or find refuge in God, or pray for deliverance. That still leaves the enduring of it, the deprivation and fear and panic and loneliness. We know those feelings too.