Quotes About Fear

Some cues -for instance, snakes, spiders, and heights- readily elicit fear in ourselves and other primates. It should not surprise us to discover that we instinctively avoid certain cues that have long been associated with such dangers as falling and dangerous animals.

Psychiatrists are supposed to help their patients get in touch with things they are trying to avoid.

Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?

Readers don't want to read about somebody else having powerful emotions. . . . Readers want to become somebody else for a few hours, to live an exciting life, to find true love, to face down unimaginable terrors, to solve impossible puzzles, to feel a lightning jolt of adrenaline.

It's not helpful if we spend every day dreading tomorrow ~Jai

when trying to make a decision, I often think of the worst-case scenario. I call it "The Eaten By Wolves Factor." If I do something, what's the most terrible thing that could happen? Would I be eaten by wolves?

Fear turned to awe when I met my coach, Jim Graham, a hulking, six-foot-four wall-of-a-guy. He had been a line-backer at Penn State, and was seriously old-school. I mean, really old-school; like he thought the forward pass was a trick play. On

I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.

Humans who have been subjected to a lifetime of irrational bigotry on the part of a mainstream society can be excused for harboring unreasonable fears.

When a London gay switchboard's lines broke down because they were so overwhelmed with AIDS calls, telephone company employees refused to fix them because they were afraid of contracting AIDS through the wiring.

Rage is fear untethered by caution.

Anger is a common derivative of fear.

It is impossible to do math and be frightened at the same time.

Fearful people always find reasons to confirm their worst fears.

(C)(P) FEAR- IS THE DRIVING FORCE WHICH FUELS THE EBB AND FLOWS OF ALL THAT IS- AMERICAN SOCIETY. IT IS GENERATIONAL, AND WILL NOT GO AWAY ANYTIME SOON BECAUSE IT IS EMBEDDED WITHIN THE FABRIC AND MINDS OF THOSE WHO ALLOW IT TO GROW AND FESTER. CANCER MAY HAVE A CURE, BUT RACISM DOES NOT.

**(C)(P)- I COINED AND CREATED THE TERM-POSTURAL CEREBRATION- WHICH REFERS TO THE- UNCONTROLLED ACTIONS- OF THE MIND/BRAIN AT CERTAIN TIMES OF DAY OR NIGHT WHICH ARE CAPABLE OF CAUSING ANXIETY ATTACKS, PARANOIA, FEAR, AND HYSTERIA.MANY PEOPLE SUFFER THIS NOT KNOWING WHAT CAUSES IT..LIKE A MIND RACING OUT OF CONTROL. MY RESEARCH CONTINUES.

My dad always tell me to make decisions from love and not from fear.

Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.

We need to talk," she sputtered. Adam winced. He was sure there weren't any other words in the world that would strike fear into a man of any species as quickly as those four. A man never said them.

Communists and Muslims are not the enemies to fear in this land, Fly. It is the food consumption that will eventually blow up in everyone's faces.

Living was no longer the grief behind him, but the anxiety ahead.

When men don't fear God, they give themselves to evil.

This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.

The Bible says that it is through the fear of the Lord that men depart from sin (Proverbs 16:6). If they don't fear God, they will be complacent about their eternal salvation (Matthew 10:28).