Quotes About Fear

Horror and terror lurk behind the walls provided so wisely by our ancestors.

The neglect and mistreatment that is part and parcel of poorly structured or even entirely absent disciplinary approaches can be deliberate—motivated by explicit, conscious (if misguided) parental motives. But more often than not, modern parents are simply paralyzed by the fear that they will no longer be liked or even loved by their children

But more often than not, modern parents are simply paralyzed by the fear that they will no longer be liked or even loved by their children if they chastise them for any reason. They want their children's friendship above all, and are willing to sacrifice respect to get it. This is not good. A child will have many friends, but only two parents—if that—and parents are more, not less, than friends.

the chaos forever lurking beneath our thin surfaces of security.

people are generally very loath to talk publicly—it is a common fear, often severe enough to interfere with career progression4

Modern parents are terrified of two frequently juxtaposed words: discipline and punish. They evoke images of prisons, soldiers and jackboots. The distance between disciplinarian and tyrant or punishment and torture is, indeed, easily traversed. Discipline and punish must be handled with care. The fear is unsurprising. But both are necessary. They can be applied unconsciously or consciously, badly or well, but there is no escaping their use.

Algo parecido suele ocurrirles a las personas que desarrollan un trastorno de ansiedad como la agorafobia. Quienes la padecen pueden llegar a sufrir tal angustia a causa del miedo, hasta el punto de no volver a salir de casa. La agorafobia es la consecuencia de un bucle de retroalimentación positiva.

Así, las emociones negativas, por desagradables que resulten, nos protegen. Sentimos dolor, miedo, vergüenza y asco, y así evitamos sufrir daños. Y se trata de sentimientos que solemos sentir a menudo. De hecho, sentimos más emoción negativa ante una pérdida de un valor determinado que la positiva que experimentamos si conseguimos algo de ese mismo valor. El dolor es más contundente que el placer y la ansiedad, más que la esperanza.

But even what is terrible in actuality often pales in significance compared to what is terrible in imagination. And often what cannot be confronted because of its horror in imagination can in fact be confronted when reduced to its-still-admittedly-terrible actuality.

What if she had continually and honestly risked

Forty days is a long time in the underworld of dark assumptions, confusion and fear—long enough to journey to the very center, which is Hell itself.

Listen, guys, fucking around with midgets ain't no joke. Pound for pound they're stronger than grizzly bears, and, if you want to know the truth, they happen to scare the living shit out of me. So before I approve this midget-tossing business, you need to find me a game warden who can rein in the little critter if he should go off the deep end. Then we're gonna need some tranq darts, a pair a handcuffs, a can of Mace—" Wigwam

No wonder I worried about talking dirty; talking in general seemed to escape me.

Victor, back there in that basement, when the zombies were… were… moving around on those tables…. Twitching? And dead? You didn't even blink. This is nothing like those zombies. No shit. Because this time, you're scared—beyond scared. You're terrified. And whatever's got you scared? I don't want any part of it.

I didn't argue. I don't do confrontation any better than I do basements, or shots of Jägermeister.

I've never found anything good in a basement. Ever.

This hypothetical person I have never met who didn't want to threaten a tarantula should stop moving their hand around," Yuri said urgently. "But…it's…touching…meeeeee.

Recognizing protective behavior is an important stage of exploration. Protections are strategies we use to keep our unconscious fears from consciousness.

The light that you discover in your life is proportionate to the amount of the darkness you are willing to forthrightly confront (from the debate between Jordan Peterson and Slavoj Zizek)

Or maybe...their biggest fear is that they will get close to you again, and you'll go and drop dead.

Others...are so sure the world is full of nothing but bullies that they become bullies themselves, trying to hit everyone in the world first. But a life of getting in the first shot isn't a life. Not really, anyway.

el miedo es algo malo y perverso que limita la libertad. Quien tiene miedo no vive

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