Quotes About Fear

Braveness, for me, is running into my basement with no socks on. There are huge spiders down there!

I reckon my fear landscape would be me having to jump out of a plane or having to skydive. I would see that as one of the scariest things ever. And then also, I'm really not a fan of spiders and bugs.

Spiders - hate 'em.

I'm not a fan of spiders... I tend to avoid them as much as I can.

I'm petrified of spiders, I've just never liked them.

I don't have a love for spiders.

But I'm more interested in why people are frightened by Jaws and why Jaws was such a hit than saying Spielberg's my main influence.

You've got to feel a little nervous when you first meet Spielberg. The guy's an apparition.

This filing spike is a result of bad information being pushed on people, and then they file for bankruptcy out of fear.

That film 'Memento' creeped me out. I was looking over my back through the whole thing. I get more creeped out than scared and spill popcorn all over the place.

I won't go up in a plane, but if a play crashes, I'll jump into the next one that comes along and take it up for a spin.

The famous pilot season literally sends shivers down my spine.

I think one of the basest of all things is fear. Fear erodes the individual. Fear erodes the nation, the spine of the nation.

The chance of messing up and falling significantly increases when you're flipping through the air three times while spinning and trying to grab your skis.

We live, in North America in general, if I'm given the indulgence of selling us down the river, in a culture of fear of this connective sense of spirit.

I just don't want to believe in ghosts, ghouls and spirits.

Ironically, it is when we identify with our spirits rather than our bodies that we are most powerful on the material plane. Our overidentification with the world does not give us power within the world so much as it diminishes our power here. It makes us frightened and nervous and full of anxiety.

I was always inclined towards spiritualism but was afraid that I would become a sanyasin if I pursued it actively.

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

Gospel music played a huge part of my life. I was too scared to audition for the choir, but through my own music, I was also able to find spirituality for myself.

Each time you choose not to act on a frightened part of your personality, you create authentic power - and you grow spiritually. The frightened parts of your personality come less frequently and with less intensity, and the loving parts fill more and more of your consciousness.

Spiritually, I understand that Trump is an innocent child of God. And before he was a Presidential candidate, I found him to be a kind of entertaining American character. But he is not entertaining anymore; he is frightening. He has been elected to the Presidency of the United States and yet he acts like he is mocking the job.

I write about all the horrible things that can happen to kids as a way of keeping those things from happening to mine. Write the books, spit three times over your shoulder and you're safe.

I was scared when I went to Conde Nast. I had heard horror stories about how they used you up and then spit you out and went on. But there was this great history of photography that had been done there.