Quotes About Fear

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all his thinking, damages his personality, makes him landlord to a ghost.

I'm interested in using the iconography of nature and the American landscape as surrogates or metaphors for psychological anxiety, fear or desire

I've got no problem with octopuses. It's bugs and spiders that I don't like. Octopuses are cute, in their own 'nature did a lot of drugs' sort of way." - Becks

We are identifying with what is passing so fear comes. We are trying to make steady and permanent what is by nature impermanent.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

I am living for every day and trying to have less fear, less worry. But I have always worried about everything; it's in my nature. It's the thing that makes me suffer the most.

People talk about nature as a mother, but to me she's always been Medea, ready and willing to slaughter her children.

Fear is the mother of all gods ... Nature does all things spontaneously, by herself, without the meddling of the gods.

Mother Nature is a relentless ruthless killer. She don't give a damn if you get home to your family.

The things you fear are undefeatable, not by their nature, but by your approach.

Societies as well as people become afraid of change as they grow older. It's human nature. The young have adventures while the old sit at home and nurture their memories.

The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appalled, Shakes off her wonted firmness.

Nature is one of the best antidotes to fear.

By nature of definition only the coward is capable of the highest heroism

Nature soaks every evil with either fear or shame.

Why should we fear to be crushed by savage elements, we who are made up of the same elements?

So, those who hate, those who are violent in nature, live in a world of hate and fear and violence inside themselves, inside their minds, inside their awareness.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

I feared my own kind more than anything the natural world could ever threaten me with.

I really believe hatred is not a primal emotion, in that you can't find it in nature. It's basically some kind of distortion of fear.

I don't want to be a vampire. A lot of other people do and I think it's that dual nature - we have, you know, terrifying/intriguing.

I have always hated flying. The idea of it is an affront to nature. People are meant to stay on the ground.

By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.