Quotes About Fear

This is the way the world ends, not with a bang but a gasp.

Tell you something, my friend — if I worked hard and really wanted it, there might be a real Rembrandt on my wall someday. Sure. In a job like this, there is nowhere to go but up. In a way, that's the scary part...

The idea of ghosts gave his child's mind no trouble at all... According to the Bible, God Himself was at least one-third Ghost.

A crazy certainty had arisen in his mind: a hand - or perhaps a claw - was going to swim up from the grayness of the Kindle's screen, grab him by the throat, and yank him in.

Sometimes human places, create inhuman monsters.? Stephen King, The Shining

We poor humans are wired up to always think the worst is gonna happen because it so rarely does.

Tim Stoutheart was afraid, too," I said. "But he went on. I expect you to do the same.

What if death drives us insane? What if we survive, but it drives us insane? What then?

Dark, don't catch me here.

But fascination is fear's twin brother

I suspect that fright, like pain, is one of those things that slip our minds once they have passed. What I do remember is a feeling I'd had before when I was down here, especially when I was walking this road by myself. It was a sense that reality is thin. I think it is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and light and motion to hide that thinness from ourselves.

and now he knew what it was like to be on the inside, caught in a web woven from your sickest fears and most traumatic experiences. There was no way to retreat from it, and no way to cut through it

I'd jump out of her mouth some night while she's snoring and run the fuck away.

Stephen King (Author)

the poet Rainer Maria Rilke surmised, "Perhaps everything that frightens us is, in its deepest essence, something helpless that wants our love."[4] In Jung's view the presence of shadow figures in dreams indicates that the ego model of the self is incomplete. When the ego intentionally accepts the Shadow, it moves toward wholeness and healthy psychological functioning.

Approach illness as an experiment in staying present, in opening your heart in hell. Discuss how we fear our hidden pain even more than death, and how noting and mindfulness brings that pain to the surface where it can be healed.

fear leans backward into the last safe moment while desire leans forward toward the next possibility of satisfaction. Each lacks presence.

Pity arises from meeting pain with fear. Compassion comes when you meet it with love.

Healing is to reoccupy those parts of ourselves abandoned to pain; to enter with mercy and awareness those areas withdrawn from in fear.

There have been so few moments when life was all it was cracked up to be. So much that might have been different had the heart not been obstructed by fear.

While there is risk in trusting other people, there's far greater risk in not trusting them.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing. —Helen Keller, from The Open Door (1957)

HAVING THUS CHOSEN OUR COURSE, WITHOUT GUILES AND WITH PURE PURPOSE, LET US RENEW OUR TRUST IN GOD, AND GO FORWARD WITHOUT FEAR AND WITH MANLY HEARTS." —Abraham Lincoln, Address to Congress, July 4, 1861

Finally, in more serious situations, man humor confronts fear and prepares the heart for action. It's a tool for dealing with danger, quieting panic, and calling comrades to prepare to charge. Call it gallows humor. Call it foxhole humor. Wherever it happens, it is how men use the sometimes crass but always funny comment to force a laugh and encourage their brothers-in-arms.