Quotes About Fear

We have an illusion of security, we don't have security.

To effectively create the image of an enemy you have to show first of all that the enemy is extremely dangerous, but on the other hand less than human.

If I could edit Google Images, then I wouldn't be as scared of the Internet.

Boys, particularly, like stories where they can have images in their imagination, where they can go to scary places and experiment with what can happen.

Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.

Kids have got such active imaginations and they're scared of so many different things.

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

I haven't even imagined having a kid yet. It's actually kind of one of my biggest fears, but that's OK.

There's always something to think about in terms of problems that are dark and important and immediate and scary.

If there is any form of contagion that is adaptive, it is the immediate response to the fear of others. If others are fearful, there may be good reason for you to be fearful too.

It's clear to you immediately that you can have anything you want when you have cancer.

I immediately doubt things if I become satisfied with them. Being satisfied by something is a real danger for me. I hope I never lose that. That would be death.

It is curious how, from time immemorial, man seems to have associated the idea of evil with beauty, shrunk from it with a sort of ghostly fear, while, at the same time drawn to it by force of its hypnotic attraction.

I enjoy it immensely, but I'm not comfortable on stage as a person.

The countries where you have the most fear of immigrants are the countries where you have the least immigration.

Fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

I would hate to be immortal forever.

Even when you're 22 and you feel immortal, you know in your heart you're not.

I'm not immune to being daunted.

There's nothing like impending death to rouse you from existential boredom.

I want women to be comfortable with being imperfect. I immediately see how girls are afraid to try things that they won't be good in. And women stay with the things they're good at even if that's not what they're put on this earth to do.

I am not comfortable telling people I am trying stand-up because to me that implies confidence. I'm - well, I'm not.

When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves.

9/11 was a hugely overblown event that only assumed its overarching importance a) because it was done to the United States and b) because of the way the U.S. reacted.