Quotes About Fear

As a young person, to already have the courage to face the pitiless glare, to overcome the fear of death, and to regain respect for death – this is the task of this young generation.

On the deepest level, problems such as war and starvation are not solved by economics and politics alone. Their source is prejudice and fear in the human heart — and their solution also lies in the human heart.

Aspirations inspire us, while expectations simply lead us into cycles of hope and fear: hope that what we want will happen; fear that it won't.

Driving is so dangerous I haven't got the guts to do it sober.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they aren't after you.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he is on.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

Be bold, be bold, but not too bold, Lest that your heart's blood should run cold.

Little pig, little pig, let me come in." To which the pig answered: "No, no, by the hair of my chiny chin chin." The wolf then answered to that: "Then I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow your house in." So he huffed, and he puffed, and he blew his house in, and ate up the little pig.

I've never believed in seeking perfection at the risk of losing everything.

Love and fear. Everything the father of a family says must inspire one or the other.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

When one has too great a dread of what is impending, one feels some relief when the trouble has come.

For worldly success, we need virtues that make us loved and faults that make us feared.

Hate and fear can poison the body as surely as any toxic chemicals.

Fear and anxiety are not biologically wired. They do not erupt from a brain circuit in a prepackaged way as a fully formed conscious experience. They are a consequence of the cognitive processing of nonemotional ingredients. They come about in the brain the same way any other conscious experience comes about but have ingredients that nonemotional experiences lack.108

Fear and other emotions are based on assumptions, presuppositions, and expectations; they are constructed in the brain from nonemotional ingredients.

In line with contemporary learning theory, emotional processing theory holds that new information does not replace old information in the fear structure but instead creates a competing memory that suppresses the old memory.75

It also enables us to fill in the blanks of our future self. The way we fill in those blanks is an important element in our overall outlook on life. Fearful, anxious people see troubles ahead and lead their lives dwelling on worst-case scenarios that often do not come to pass. They believe that worrying gave them the power to execute plans that prevented the bad things from happening in the past. But

To be rid of fear, the theory goes, one has to overcome habitual avoidance and be reexposed to the fear-arousing stimulus, experience the fear, and then learn, via extinction, that the stimulus is not really the portent of a harmful outcome. The

The fear structure is viewed as a program (in the sense of a computer program) for escaping or avoiding danger and includes several kinds of stored propositions: It includes propositions about threats—when the threat signal (CS) occurs, a bad thing (US) follows; propositions about physiological changes—when the CS occurs, I sweat and my heart beats faster; propositions