Quotes About Fear

A key and a strangler - this is all a simple tale requires.

To manufacture fear you have to mobilize a large portion of the people to accept it exists. That takes work. Blood must be shed. Terrorism, if you will. But to counterfeit fear? That's much easier. All you have to do is silence those who call fear into question.

The soviets were terrified of God. … The less a government deifies itself, the more it should be respected.

people fear what they do not understand.

Like he always said, if flying was so safe, why'd they call the airport a terminal?

Until a Christian struggles with the issue of freedom, he or she will remain frightened, obsessive, and bound.

I believe that half the unhappiness in life comes from people being afraid to go straight at things.

Worry is not true thought. Worry is a misuse of the imagination.

as you continue in action, the fear dissolves, like a fist full of salt in the river.

The lesson Rett taught me was one I've never forgotten. Whenever I'm afraid of something coming up, I will find a way to do something that's even harder or scarier. Once I do the harder thing, the real thing becomes fun.

we ourselves do that each day. We use our crayons (our imagination) to scare ourselves instead of to create.

Personality freezes us in a safe and secure pattern of being that we probably finished making up somewhere in junior high school. Most of our "permanent" personality was shaped from fear: fear of embarrassment, fear of losing face, fear of appearing uncool.

In just the same way, fear is merely the absence of love. If you can bring enough love, there is no more fear.

If you focus on the pain, and think of nothing but the pain, you will not get anywhere," Doug pointed out. "You have to accept the pain for what it is, and then focus completely on what you want. The more you focus on what you want, the less the pain matters." Owners focus on what they want. Victims focus on what they fear. And both positions are pure internal invention.

Whenever I'm afraid of something coming up, I will find a way to do something that's even harder or scarier. Once I do the harder thing, the real thing becomes fun.

When you say you fear death you are really saying that you fear you have not lived your true life.

Owners of the spirit are beautiful losers. They risk all. They are losers because they have lost all fear of embarrassment. They have lost all inhibition. They have lost all concern for what other people might think.

Owners focus on what they want. Victims focus on what they fear. And both positions are pure internal invention

The moment that we hold some solidified idea about Reality- rather than relying on direct perception of the world- we inevitably give rise to anxiety and fear.

There are two kinds of knowledge … One consists of beliefs, opinions, conjectures – having an idea of something. (…) But this is not the true knowing. (…) We think that our beliefs and ideas can be relied on to give us satisfaction. … In fact, they're … our primary source of anxiety and fear, because they're always subject to contradiction and doubt.

In fixing] on the idea of a universe full of separate, unchanging, persistent things … [w]e also necessarily conceive that each thing must die, must one day come to an end. … [W]hen that thing is the imagined 'I', this prospect naturally terrifies us.

Saber qué hacer y tener el valor para hacerlo son dos cosas diferentes.

How many people have never raised their hand before?

My fear represented the failure of the human system. It is a sad truth of our creation: Something is amiss in our design, there are loose ends of our psychology that are simply not wrapped up. My fears were the dirty secrets of evolution. They were not provided for, and I was forced to construct elaborate temples to house them.