Quotes About Fear

Once danger becomes its own reward, risk moves from a threat to be avoided to a challenge to be risen toward.

Sooner or later, there's always a Jaws: a mental hurdle we can't clear, a decision too dangerous to attack head on. In those situations, sideways is forward.

Treat fear like a playmate," suggests Ulmer. "This transforms the emotion from a problem to be solved into a resource to be savored.

Most of our fears and most of our anxieties don't exist in the present

When Felix walked off the project," says Walshe, "it was the darkest moment in his life. But a phobia—that's deeply rooted fear. To face that, to come back, to trust strangers with his life, to put himself back into position to do something no one else had ever conceived of? I've seen plenty of astounding feats of human performance, but emotionally, Felix's journey is the farthest I've ever seen an athlete come.

The true challenge is how you continue doing it, after you've ridden the biggest wave, crossed the longest distance. You set up challenges that are more than what you ever did before. And by getting through it, you get the sensation you've completed something. And if it's dangerous, then other things that scare you, the experience will strengthen you for those situations.

But, seriously, when in history did fear of death ever come between a man and his drugs?

Most people are so afraid of dying they never live.

Hallucinogens then do the same job as religion - they provide proof of unity, which is still the only known cure for fear of death.

Dr. Weiss stood. There are two things you need to know right off the bat: The first is that it takes great courage to admit fear or that you need hep. Just by being here, you've proven that you have the courage. And the second id that we never get what we wish for - ever. He shrugged. We get what we work for. He looked into David's eyes. Are you prepared to put in the work, David McClain?

Language-lovers know that there is a word for every fear. Are you afraid of wine? Then you have oenophobia. Tremulous about train travel? You suffer from siderodromophobia. Having misgivings about your mother-in-law is pentheraphobia, and being petrified of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth is arachibutyrophobia. And then there's Franklin Delano Roosevelt's affliction, the fear of fear itself, or phobophobia.

The whole point of international terrorism is to shock the world with the most horrific spectacle imaginable.

People dread losses more than they look forward to gains, that they dwell on setbacks more than the savor good fortune, and that they are more stubd by criticism then they are heartened by praise.

By exploring the political and moral colorings of discoveries about what makes us tick, we can have a more honest science and a less fearful intellectual milieu.

This isn't the first time we've been warned of certain ruin. The experts have predicted civilization-ending aerial gas attacks, global thermonuclear war, a Soviet invasion of Western Europe, a Chinese razing of half of humanity, nuclear powers by the dozen, a revanchist Germany, a rising sun in Japan, cities overrun by teenage superpredators, a world war fought over diminishing oil, nuclear war between India and Pakistan, and weekly 9/11-scale attacks.

Nuclear power presses a number of psychological buttons—fear of poisoning, ease of imagining catastrophes, distrust of the unfamiliar and the man-made—and the dread has been amplified by the traditional Green movement and its dubiously "progressive" supporters.

Solzhenitsyn recounted a party conference in Moscow that ended with a tribute to Stalin. Everyone stood and clapped wildly for three minutes, then four, then five . . . and then no one dared to be the first to stop. After eleven minutes of increasingly stinging palms, a factory director on the platform finally sat down, followed by the rest of the grateful assembly. He was arrested that evening and sent to the gulag for ten years.278

It's often said that with climate change, those who know the most are the most frightened, but with nuclear power, those who know the most are the least frightened.

To take another low-death/high-fear hazard, rampage killings in American schools claim around 35 victims a year, compared with about 16,000 routine police-blotter homicides.25 Yet American schools have implemented billions of dollars of dubious safety measures, like installing bulletproof whiteboards and arming teachers with pepperball guns, while traumatizing children with terrifying active-shooter drills.

Not surprisingly, many people have a fear of flying, but almost no one has a fear of driving. People rank tornadoes (which kill about fifty Americans a year) as a more common cause of death than asthma (which kills more than four thousand Americans a year), presumably because tornadoes make for better television.

All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love.

Love is a dangerous commodity-fraught with peril.

Our deepest fear is judgment. Our deepest longing is love. The gospel of grace removes the one and provides the other.

Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.