Quotes About Fear

Carol wanted her with her, and whatever happened they would meet it without running. How was it possible to be afraid and in love, Therese thought. The two things did not go together. How was it possible to be afraid, when the two of them grew stronger together every day? And every night. Every night was different, and every morning. Together they possessed a miracle.

Each person carries around in himself a terrible other world of hell and the unknown. It is an enormous pit reaching below the deepest crater of the earth, or it is the thinnest air far beyond the moon. But it is frightening and essentially "unlike" man as he knows himself familiarly, so we spend all our days living at the other antipodes of ourself.

Was life, were human relations like this always, Therese wondered. Never solid ground underfoot. Always like gravel, a little yielding, noisy so the whole world could hear, so one always listened, too, for the loud, harsh step of the intruder's foot.

I do not understand people who like to make noise; consequently I fear them, and since I fear them, I hate them.

Miss Highsmith is the poet of apprehension rather than fear. Fear after a time, as we all learned in the blitz, is narcotic, it can lull one by fatigue into sleep, but apprehension nags at the nerves gently and inescapably. We have to learn to live with it.

If she ever had an impulse to tell Carol, the words dissolved before she began, in fear and in her usual mistrust of her own reactions, the anxiety that her reactions were like no one else's, and that therefore not even Carol could understand them.

They sat in silence until the howl of a distant coyote made her shiver. He sings for his mate, Cade reassured her. Does he think the sound of his loneliness will attract her? Lily asked wryly. I'm sure it is the beauty of his song. His voice contained almost a hint of a chuckle. I'm sure that's what he thinks. Her scoffing hid an undertone of bitterness, and Cade was silent for a while. Men often hide their fears with actions, he finally said. By

As Lord Tennyson so truly says: Put down the passions that make earth Hell! Down with ambition, avarice, pride, Jealousy, down! Cut off from the mind The bitter springs of anger and fear; Down too, down at your own fireside, With the evil tongue and the evil ear, For both are at war with mankind!

You can always tell when a town has gone bad. People gather in little groups, talking in low voices. Their postures are taut and awkward. They have the look of those who have been brushed by brutality and do not know how to cope with it—a look of shame, as if they had somehow caused the violence that frightens them.

As the years went by, I gradually discovered that ninety-nine per cent of the things I worried about never happened. For

Few people are logical. Most of us are prejudiced and biased. Most of us are blighted with preconceived notions, with jealousy, suspicion, fear, envy and pride.

The way to develop self-confidence, he said, is to do the thing you fear to do and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

articulate, and at ease in expressing their ideas on a one-to-one basis, become tongue-tied and terrified when faced with even a small audience. Businesspeople have been stymied in their careers because they fear speaking up

Nature also rushes in to fill the vacant mind. With what? Usually with emotions. Why? Because emotions of worry, fear, hate, jealousy, and envy are driven by primeval vigor and the dynamic energy of the jungle. Such emotions are so violent that they tend to drive out of our minds all peaceful, happy thoughts and emotions.

Todos los hombres tienen temores, pero los valientes los olvidan y van adelante, a veces hasta la muerte, pero siempre hasta la victoria. Ese era el lema de la Guardia Real en la antigua Grecia.

if you are a chronic worrier, you may be stricken some day with one of the most excruciating pains ever endured by man: angina pectoris.

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My life," he said, "has been full of terrible misfortunes, most of which never happened." So has mine—so has yours.

Worry is like the constant drip, drip, drip of water; and the constant drip, drip, drip of worry often drives men to insanity and suicide.

And he also lost his fear of individuals and of his superiors.

As much as we thirst for approval, we dread condemnation.

El miedo causa preocupación. La preocupación pone a uno tenso y nervioso, afecta a los nervios del estomago, cambia los jugos gástricos de normales a anormales y frecuentemente provoca ulceras estomacales. Las ulceras del estomago no vienen de lo que se que come. Vienen de lo que está comiendo a uno.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

Todos los hombres tienen temores, pero los valientes los olvidan y van adelante, a veces hasta la muerte, pero siempre hasta la victoria." Ése era el lema de la Guardia Real en la antigua Grecia.