Quotes About Fear

Religion is obsessed with nature, because religion fears nature. Thus, religion attempts to reign in and control nature, including the nature of human sexuality.

Religion is obsessed with nature, because religion fears nature.

Therefore, the work you must do to rid yourself of a Mind Parasite, is to stop feeding it your anger, jealousy, fear, sadness, shame, guilt and embarrassment.

Emotion is an instinctive response aimed at self-preservation.

If you find yourself in enough trouble to be staring death in the face, you've gotten there by a well-worn path.

I am constantly surrounded by a display of natural wonders...It is beauty surrounded by ugly fear. I write in my log that it's a view of heaven from a seat in hell. (survivor after 53 days at sea)

With the illusion that we have dominion over the earth we conclude we have nothing to fear.

For example, when children do not get the connection they need, they grow up both seeking and fearing connection. When children do not get their needs met, they do not learn to recognize what they need, are unable to express their needs, and often feel undeserving of having their needs met.

Regardless of age, Connection types, at some level, often feel like frightened children in an adult world. Because of their inadequate sense of self, they often try to anchor themselves in their roles as scientist, judge, doctor, father, mother, etc.

In a healing cycle, connection to our body, emotions, and life force allows for greater connection with others, and in turn, connection with others supports greater connection to ourselves. The connection that has always been our deepest desire is now no longer our greatest fear.

As we experience the development of personal agency, we come to see that the rejection we fear from the world has already happened.

Attuned parents support increasing age-appropriate independence and autonomy. Highly anxious parents undermine their children's developing need for independence because of their own unresolved fears. They prevent their age-appropriate movement toward autonomy in order to "protect" their children.

Individuals with the Attunement Survival Style have difficulty attuning to their own needs; knowing, allowing, and expressing their needs is associated with humiliation, loss, and fear of rejection. Many individuals with the Attunement Survival Style become caretakers.

This survival style's deepest longing for connection is also its deepest fear.

Wellington, examining the roster of officers assigned to him for the 1810 campaign in Portugal, said, "I only hope that when the enemy reads the list of their names, he trembles as I do.

As the two young men prowled through the black neighborhood, they were not looking for any black man in particular. Their victim could be young, old, fat, skinny, weak, strong. They didn't care. They weren't afraid. They had a gun. All that mattered was that he was the right color.

He wasn't happy unless he was going so fast that one misstep would send him riding shotgun in heaven.

Only the brave know how to forgive…. A coward never forgave; it is not in his nature.

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.

There's a beast in all of us, you know,' Jasper said. 'No,' Tessa said. 'Yes, a monster right inside of us all,' Jasper said. They wondered what theirs looked like. They faced each other and blinked while making faces to try to capture the phantom.

The most self confident aces began to wonder when their turn would come.. Faced by the empty chairs of men you had laughed and joked with at lunch. And, miraculously, you were still there. Until tomorrow..

One day soon, this body will be old; and not too long afterward, it will turn into dust. This thought frightened her, made her think of how insignificant she was, made her realize that she alone gave her life significance.

oh my god, she couldn't help thinking. I have hairy legs and I'm going to die alone.