Quotes About Fear

A guilty man runs when no one's chasin' him.

A snake-bit man is afraid of a rope.

Fear the man who's feared of you.

Drinkers hate to lose one of the gang. It's an implied threat that maybe they might be next.

Nightmares are the dress rehearsal for the dread awaiting.

I think we too often make choices based on the safety of cynicism, and what we're lead to is a life not fully lived. Cynicism is fear, and it's worse than fear - it's active disengagement.

And it made me nervous, because I'm the kind of person who should be kept away from romance, the way certain people should be kept away from guns or sharp knives.

The public's abiding fascination with flaying saucers, C.G. Jung suggests, 'may be a spontaneous reaction of the subconscious to fear of the apparently insoluble political situation in the world that may lead at any moment to catastrophe. At such times eyes turn heavenwards in search of help, and miraculous forebodings of a threatening or consoling nature appear from on high.

A sound of cornered-animal fear and hate and surrender and defiance… like the last sound the treed and shot and falling animal makes as the dogs get him, when he finally doesn't care any more about anything but himself and his dying.

The Polito form is dead, insect. Are you afraid? What is it you fear? The end of your trivial existence? When the history of my glory is written, your species shall only be a footnote to my magnificence.

Terror has to be random...that's how to really break people, when they don't know what rules to follow to keep them out of trouble.

What's that?' The one who'd hassled Kohn turned at a noise. He found his cheek meeting a gun muzzle. Muffled sounds came from all around. 'Your worst nightmare,' said a voice from the darkness, about a metre away. 'A yid kid with an AK and attitude .'

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

But it also taught me that it is easier to overcome people's judgments than to overcome our own self-judgment, the fear we internalize.

The decision to play it safe, to take the path of least resistance, can seem irresistible, particularly if you have your own doubts and fears about the alternatives.

What is true is that if you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

Women still have an uneasy relationship with power and the traits necessary to be a leader. There is this internalized fear that if we are really powerful, we are going to be considered ruthless or pushy or strident—all those epithets that strike right at our femininity.

Me dio miedo dejar el laboratorio —dice— pero no tanto como la perspectiva de quedarme en él. Mi consejo es que si estás pensando en dar este tipo de salto, lo mejor es que hagas como un lemming y saltes.»

veces, equivocarse significa simplemente equivocarse. Pero si no estás preparado para equivocarte, nunca se te ocurrirá nada original.

If you're not prepared to be wrong, you'll never come up with anything original.

We stigmatize mistakes. And we're now running national educational systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make -- and the result is that we are educating people out of their creative capacities.

We so want to be right and so trust that our desire to be right is something that God would surely bless. Yet the desire to be right comes with a price: the fear of being wrong. And so, in a counter-intuitive way, this focus on being right seems to be the porridge we settle for when we exchange our birthright because we're famished and fear that father won't feed us.

In the opening paragraph Goldi commits felony breaking and entering. Why does she do it? Why does she risk five to ten in the slammer or death by bear claw?

A person's what they fear and what they love.