Quotes About Fear

The trouble with being a hypochondriac these days is that antibiotics have cured all the good diseases.

No one from the beginning of time has had security.

I didn't want to pray to God 'cause I didn't want him to know where I was.

Big Brother is watching you.

I was and I always shall be hampered by what I think other people will say.

For me, writing is the only thing that passes the three tests of metier: (i) when I'm doing it, I don't feel that I should be doing something else instead; (2) it produces a sense of accomplishment and, once in a while, pride; and (3) it's frightening.

Any life truly lived is a risky business, and if one puts up too many fences against the risks one ends by shutting out life itself.

Life has no romance without risk.

It is only by risking ... that we live at all.

To be alive at all involves some risk.

To live without risk for me would be tantamount to death.

Danger itself is the best remedy for danger.

Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

All reformations seem formidable before they are attempted.

Our safety is not in blindness, but in facing our danger.

Of course people are afraid. But honestly facing that fear, seeing it for what it is, is the only way of putting it to rest.

An individual dies ... when, instead of taking risks and hurling himself toward being, he cowers within, and takes refuge there.

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

In order to find the edge, you must risk going over the edge.

The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny.

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile ... initially scared me to death.

Security is not the meaning of my life. Great opportunities are worth the risks.

Security is mostly superstition. It does not exist in nature.