Quotes About Fear

the sense of being dehumanised, reduced to little more than an extension of your equipment and weaponry, the constant feeling of being used as an object, manipulated by blind, invisible hands, controlled by a force that was either malignant or stupid, the sense of being exhausted in a metaphorical and quite often literal darkness, of being exhausted, frightened, sick, sometimes so weary that you slept while on your feet like a horse. And ignorance, stupefying, brutalising ignorance.

The chill of some vague fear was upon him.

...it slays love quicker than any other one thing... Indeed, the jealous bring down the curse they fear upon their own heads. By their suspicions the jealous materialize the very thing they most dread...

There was a crash of thunder, the sky shattering right above our heads.

When you say, "The burned child dreads the fire," you mean that he is already a master of induction.

Perhaps for some, rudeness is the fear of being nice.

...the devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despot's dread of a newspaper that laughs.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind be quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there — buried under the fifty thousand thoughts the average person thinks every day. And most of those thoughts are automatic mental responses we've developed from conditioning that fill us with anxiety and fear. They are nothing more than habits, and 99 percent of the thoughts you have in a day are the same ones you had the day before.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

There is some chance of my retiring... And yet, though I thought such a proposal when first made was like a Pisgah peep of Paradise, I cannot help being a little afraid of changing the habits of a long life all of a sudden and for ever...

One cannot refuse to eat just because there is a chance of being choked.

If you treat the unknown as a minefield and never enter, you may avoid getting blasted but won't ever get to run along with the butterflies.

Tho' I fancy'd the rose, yet I dreaded the thorn.

Danger never takes a vacation.

If safety is a joke, then death is the punchline.

Better dead sure than sure dead.

The safest risk is the one you didn't take.

Scorpions are a mix of lobsters, spiders, wasps, and nightmares.

He who has been stung by a scorpion is afraid of its shadow.

There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.

I suspected skydiving was dangerous when they asked me to sign a waiver. They confirmed my suspicions when they asked me to pay in advance.

You do not need a parachute to skydive — you only need a parachute to skydive twice.

Only skydivers know why the birds sing — they never have to pack a parachute.

You know you're a skydiver when your friends look at the sky and say, "look at all those clouds," and you say, "look at all those holes!"