Quotes About Fear

How can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointment can bring?

Poor little babies are so afraid of pain that they spurn the myriad sweet wonders of life so that they might protect themselves from hurt. How can you respect that sort of weakness, how can you admire a human who consciously embraces the bland, the mediocre, and the safe rather than risk the suffering that disappointments can bring?

There's nothing like the word dangerous to generate interest: it's irresistible to young males, scary to most young females.

The problem here, Gwen, is that the more desperate you are to achieve financial success and the tighter you hold on to what you've got, the greater your chances of losing it. Money's like love in that respect.

It seems like with you everything leads back to the subject of death. Sure and show me the person's road that does not lead to death. we try to divert our attention, to pretend 'tisn't so, but the very air we breathe is vulture's breath. Please don't be insinuatin' your man is morbid. I dwell on death in order to defeat it.

When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life that is almost as deep-seated as the fear of death. Indeed, the resentment of life and the fear of death are virtually synonymous. Does it follow, then, that the more people ask of living, the less their fear of dying?

this is not the first time that intimidation by typewriter has caused me to consider the pen.

The odd thing was, Dickie longed to experience that feeling. It wasn't any kind of death wish: there was not a suicidal cell in his body. rather, it seemed that the very sensation, the inner force that made Dickie's scrotum tighten, his throat constrict, and his eyeballs swim in dizziness also made him want to tumble into the precipitous void. And ultimately, his fear of longing to fall was greater, more disturbing, than his fear of falling.

Real courage is risking one's clichés.

The odor of frying bacon, sausage links, and ham tiptoed on little pig feet all the way to the north end of the second floor. Inevitably, the odor made her simultaneously ravenous and nauseated. She hated the sensation. It reminded her of pregnancy. Every Sunday morning, Leigh-Cheri awoke to a pan of fried fear.

Death is not a resident of the house. 'Death' is merely the name we give to certain rooms of the house, rooms that we, the so-called 'living,' fear for the simple reason that we have not passed through them.

In order to tame death, they refuse to completely enjoy life. In rejecting complete enjoyment, they are half-dead in advance - and that with no guarantee that their sacrifice will actually benefit them when all is done.

private and primitive and a bit on the funky and frightening

The reptile brain is the dragon within us.

Whatever became of the moment when one first knew about death? There must have been one. A moment. In childhood. When it first occurred to you that you don't go on forever. It must have been shattering, stamped into one's memory. And yet, I can't remember it.

Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.

GUIL: A scientific approach to the examination of phenomena is a defence against the pure emotion of fear

As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it.

He could not put down a word without suspecting that it might be the wrong one and that if he held back for another day the intermediate experience would provide the right one. There was no end to that, and Moon fearfully glimpsed himself as a pure writer who after a lifetime of absolutely no output whatsoever, would prepare on his deathbed the single sentence which was the distillation of everything he had saved up, and die before he was able to utter it.

Los sentimientos son libres pero rara vez los hombres se atreven a obedecer esa libertad. Me

Kad u glavi imamo re?enice, mislio sam, još uvek nemamo odlu?nost i da ih stavimo na papir. Re?enice nas plaše, najpre nas plaši misao, onda re?enica, naposletku to što tu re?enicu možda više nemamo u glavi kada ho?emo da je zapišemo. Vrlo ?esto neku re?enicu prerano zapišemo, neku, opet, prekasno; re?enicu moramo da zapišemo u pravom trenutku, ina?e je zauvek izgubljena.

He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being."19

When fear rules, obedience is the only survival choice.

Here I am not the one to throw out. No one steals my warmth and shoes because I am small. No one handles my backside. No one whinnies like sheep or goat because I drop in fear and weakness. No one screams at the sight of me. No one watches my body for how it is unseemly. With you my body is pleasure is safe is belonging. I can never not have you have me.