Quotes About Fear

I was set down from the carrier's cart at the age of three; and there with a sense of bewilderment and terror my life in the village began.

There are two types of problems: the ones we pay attention to so that we can come up with solutions, and those from which we run away.

The only sharks I'm afraid of are the ones that wear three-piece suits and write memos.

Barely halfway back, exhaustion sets in. What if I don't make it? An edge of panic gets intercepted by a calmer inner voice: Look behind you.

I took up windsurfing to explore my own courage.

knock, knock. who's there? it's cancer. cancer who? cancer of the section right behind your belly button that you have been trying to pass off as the pinch of ovulation. but it's not. it's cancer. it's me.

Come on, give me a shimmy!" Ruby screeched from the couch as she ground out one cigarette and then lit another. "You're fighting a battle of good and evil with your dog pimp! Your only weapon is the shimmy! There is power in the shimmy! Make him fear your shimmy! Now, goddamnit, show me your war shimmy!

That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate.

Sometimes I think that my best writing comes from exposing my fears and vulnerabilities and hoping that nobody notices it's about me.

I've begun to have those stupid dreams. You know the ones where you show up for the final exam and haven't cracked a book all semester?

Todas las preocupaciones de su vida pasada le parecían insignificantes e intrascendentes en comparación con el carácter definitivo de la muerte. Era una sensación sobrecogedora que quitaba la facultad de pensar, de moverse, de dirigir las extremidades para avanzar hacia la siguiente eventualidad

Sometimes we must do things, plenty scared or not. To be able to say afterward,`I was plenty scared`makes a man a bigger man, not a smaller one.

Les dolía el corazón de amor y miedo

Anxiety is an extension of the dynamics of fear. It's the feeling of fear without an awareness of the object of your fear. All you know is that you're fearful, but you can't specify exactly what you are afraid of. You just worry about everything.

Something I learned long ago. It is not necessary to know what a person is afraid of. It is enough to know the person is afraid.

Conscience was chiefly fear of society, or fear of oneself.

I wonder which was more frightened among old tribes -- those bursting out of their darkness of woods upon all the space of light, or those from the open tiptoeing into the forests.

Sex is really only touch, the closest of all touch. And it's touch we're afraid of.

I have dreamt that all my teeth fell out but my tongue lived to tell the tale

Oh no I have not lain on Beauty Rests like this afraid to rise at night for fear that I might somehow miss some movement beauty might have made

Nadie está intentando matarme con engaños».

Do not trust the Horse, Trojans/ Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks even bearing gifts. —Laocoön in Virgil's Aeneid

Fear of black rebellion among planters was deep and long-standing. 7 It began in the first years that African slaves were brought ashore, but in 1739, an incident of unprecedented ferocity caught every slaveowner in its grip.

So I can only conclude that American democracy inherently does not want good leadership. We always passed over the very great men we had like Daniel Webster, John Calhoun, Henry Clay, John Fremont, and the people after the Civil War like Carl Shurz. We pass them up because we don't want first-class men in that position, we want somebody who is a stupid bum like us. We're afraid of good leadership until a time of crisis