Quotes About Fear

No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.

I was young and angry enough not to feel that, though this wasn't courage: young and angry is not the same as brave.

You can fall out of your own safe life that quickly, and nothing you thought you knew will ever be the same again.

One forgets the fear of heights when one cannot fall

She hissed, right there behind my ear, and I had the horrible idea she was spitting maggots into my hair. Why maggots were a problem when I was about to be dead, I didn't know, but the idea completely grossed me out. "In the womb I heard you die, for no one lives when a banshee cries." I wasn't just going to die. I was going to be rhymed to death. That simply wasn't fair.

Where your fear is, there is your task.

Is it worth the lion's while to terrify the mouse?

For the hero, fear is a challenge and a task, because only boldness can deliver from fear. And if the risk is not taken, the meaning of life is somehow violated, and the whole future is condemned to hopeless staleness, to a drab grey lit only by will-o'-the-wisps.

I swayed between fear, defiance, and nausea, and was wholly the prey of my passion. I could not and did not want to listen to the depths. But on the seventh night, the spirit of the depths spoke to me: "Look into your depths, pray to your depths, waken the dead.

At first we cannot see beyond the path that leads downward to dark and hateful things—but no light or beauty will ever come from the man who cannot bear this sight. Light is always born of darkness, and the sun never yet stood still in heaven to satisfy man's longing or to still his fears.

A great work of art is like a dream; for all its apparent obviousness it does not explain itself and is never unequivocal. A dream never says: "You ought", or: "This is the truth." It presents an image in much the same way as nature allows a plant to grow, and we must draw our own conclusions. If a person has a nightmare, it means either that he is too much given to fear, or else that he is too exempt from it;

Whenever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fear and many run away….The risk of inner experience, the adventure of the spirit, is in any case alien to most human beings. The possibility that such experience might have psychic reality is anathema to them.

If we do not have the depths, how do we have the heights? Yet you fear the depths, and do not want to confess that you are afraid of them. It is good, though, that you fear yourselves; say it out loud that you are afraid of yourselves. It is wisdom to fear oneself.

Acesta este pasul pe care Zarathustra nu l-a putut face: pasul c?tre "omul cel mai urât", omul adev?rat. Împotrivirea ÅŸi frica fa?? de el dovedesc cât de mare este puterea de atracÅ£ie ÅŸi de seducÅ£ie a ceea ce este inferior. Separarea de inferior nu este o soluÅ£ie.

Anyone who takes the sure road is as good as dead.

We all feel that the opposite of our own highest principle must be purely destructive, deadly, and evil. We refuse to endow it with any positive life-force; hence we avoid and fear it.

Anyone who takes the sure road is as good as dead. It

In fact, the terrors that stem from our elaborate civilization may be far more threatening than those that primitive people attribute to demons. The

Whoever protects himself against what is new and strange and thereby regresses to the past, falls into the same neurotic condition as the man who identifies himself with the new and runs away from the past.

Such a revolution of one's world, and of the world in general, threw its shadows ahead

Have you noticed that all your foundations are completely mired in madness? (..) Madness is not to be despised and not to be feared (..) Be glad that you can recognize it, for you will thus avoid becoming its victim.

Exist? mult mai mulÅ£i oameni care se tem de inconÅŸtient decât ne-am aÅŸtepta. Lor le este fric? de propria umbr?.

Since nobody is capable of recognizing just where and how much he himself is possessed and unconscious, he simply projects his own condition upon his neighbour, and thus it becomes a sacred duty to have the biggest guns and the most poisonous gas. The worst of it is that he is quite right. All one's neighbours are in the grip of some uncontrolled and uncontrollable fear, just like oneself.

We had forgotten that God is terrible...Christ taught; God is love. But you should know that love is also terrible.