Quotes About Fear

When you're lost in the Wild and you're scared as a child, And Death looks you bang in the eye, And you're sore as a boil it's according to Hoyle To cock your revolver…and die. But the Code of a Man says: "Fight all you can," And self-dissolution is barred. In hunger and woe, oh, it's easy to blow… It's the hell-served-for-breakfast that's hard.

Whether the idea was taken from the Spanish Inquisition whose methods it so resembled or from the example of the Russian secret police, whether it sprang from Himmler's own zealotry, it was a deliberate policy designed to suppress by fear all actual or potential opposition or even criticism of the regime.

Höss found himself going hot and cold and trembling as he was forced to watch from the front rank; it affected him far more than the first execution he witnessed.

Hitler's power came from his ability to sense the fears and hopes of his audiences and give them back in heightened form.

Most falls aren't free -- there is always the tension, it seems to me, between what you are falling from and what you are falling to.

But would she ever recover fully inside? How would she handle being alone in the house? Would she ever again be able to hear someone walking up the garden path without that twinge of fear and panic? He didn't know. The psyche regenerates itself, too, sometimes. We're often a damn sight more resilient than we'd imagine.

He was at an age when every odd ache or pain brought a little more fear than it had before, when colds lingered and settled on the chest.

People were never supposed to live in cities. They gathered together since they were scared and then living like that only made them more and more afraid.

Animals, like humans, make in life the mistakes that will ultimately lead to their death, either physically or on a spiritual and emotional level. People and animals that stay on the same paths in life will eventually wear themselves into ruts. Soon the ruts become so deep that the people can no longer see over the sides. They see neither danger, or beauty, only the path before them because they fear losing their security and are afraid to enter the land of the unknown.

The other terror," he says, "the other terror that scares us from self-trust is our consistency. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall.

Rather than thinking that genuine religious experience is always comforting, the sense that there is one who can see into the very depths of our being can cause us to turn and run from God. Such repulsion and fear arises from the actual experience of God, for to feel naked and ashamed before God presupposes some kind of relation with God.

When, out of fear, we avoid conflict and appease people, we are false peacemakers. For

One of our greatest obstacles in knowing God is our own lack of self-knowledge. So we end up wearing a mask—before God, ourselves, and other people. And we can't become self-aware if we cut off our humanity out of fear of our feelings. This fear leads to unwillingness to know ourselves as we truly are and stunts our growth in Christ.

Rational fears keep you alive, irrational fears keep you from living.

I sometimes feel a bit afraid about the commercial world with, on the one hand, the imperatives of getting it done because the customer needs it next week and, on the other hand, the sheer breadth rather than depth of the systems that we build.

When Equus leaves - if he leaves at all - it will be with your intestines in his teeth.

Attaining a state of flow can be quite rare because there are many barriers to freeing our minds. Csikszentmihalyi identifies negative forms of perfectionism, fear, self-doubt, and self-censoring as primary obstacles to flow.

El miedo es la posibilidad de ganar la libertad.

Fear is the possibility of freedom.

Solange man leidet, lebt man doch wenigstens. Ich fürchte mich nicht vor dem Sterben. Ich habe Angst vor dem Tod - einfach, weil dann alles zu Ende ist.

Wolf! Right here and now!

Most people will tell you growing up means you stop believing in Halloween things - I'm telling you the reverse. You start to grow up when you understand that the stuff that scares you is part of the air you breathe.

What would be frightening about me jumping out of the bush wearing a pig mask is not the sudden surprise, not me, and not the pig mask, but that the ordinary world had split open for a moment to reveal some possibility never previously considered.

Wolves and those who see them are shot on sight.