Quotes About Fear

But that's what bravery is, my dear. The overcoming of fear. If you're not afraid, it doesn't count.

Fearfulness, contrary to all other vices, maketh a man think the better of another, the worse of himself.

One thing I knew about the novelist's task: when in doubt, write; when empty, write; when afraid, write. Nothing is more impenetrable than the blank page. The blank page is the void, the absence of sense and feeling, the white light of literary death.

We fear storms and wild beasts, but we do not censor them. If we must guard ourselves from evil influences we thereby admit their seductive appeal.

what proof is there that dupery through hope is so much worse than dupery through fear?

Great is he, who conquers the frightful. Sublime is he, who, while succumbing to it, fears it not'.

Epicurus also taught that wisdom was the greatest virtue, for through it we could learn which pleasures to seek and which to avoid. Moreover, he professed that no one could be completely happy unless they lived a virtuous life, not because virtue was good in itself, but because it led to pleasurable consequences and the absence of pain and fear.

You see the shadow. Snap! You are frightened—and running. That's the "availability heuristic," one of many System 1 operations—or heuristics—discovered by Daniel Kahneman, his collaborator Amos Tversky, and other researchers in the fast-growing science of judgment and choice.

They are afraid. They would, today, keep secret a thousand things that, yesterday, they would have told one another freely. Freedom. Where is it now? We are driving it into limbo—their kind. To limbo.

La difusión de la imagen visual de ese enemigo en carteles y en portadas de revista, en la televisión , en cine y en Internet, hace que esa imagen se fije en los recovecos de nuestro cerebro primitivo, en el sistema límbico, donde residen las potentes emociones del miedo y el odio. El efecto Lucifer

I have seen sights and travelled in countries you cannot imagine. I have been afraid and I have been in danger, and I have never for one moment thought that I would throw myself at at a man for his help.

These people no doubt became more common in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, and judging from La Fontaine, those who tried to cheat death were found primarily among the old: He who most resembles the dead is the most reluctant to die. Eighteenth-century

I say "courage," but it may be something else. Those who have not taken this step, who have not come to terms with themselves, are not necessarily frightened, they are perhaps helpless, disoriented, lost as one is in the middle of a forest that's too dark or dense or vast.

I know that what I've written has probably given the impression that I was a haughty young boy, a bit too delicate for the world (and no doubt I was, at least in part). But looking back on it, I think it was simply a fear of crowds, their movements, the inherent potential to transform into a mob, that pushed me toward this misanthropy.

I am taken aback by this excess precaution; in another context I would have found it ridiculous. But I understand the fear and panic he carries with him. I know how strong this fear is and also that it can't only be fear of being caught. It's a fear of himself too. A fear of what he is.

And then, he asks me to take him. He says the words, without shame, without ordering me to either. I obey him, though I'm afraid. I know that it can hurt if the other person doesn't know how to do it, that the body can resist.

It's the most simple words that destroy us.

T. me laisse parler. À la fin, il dit : c'est comme ça, il n'y a rien à discuter (je crois même qu'il dit : négocier). Si tu préfères, on arrête. Si tu ne supportes plus. Là, maintenant, tout de suite. Je dis : non, on n'arrête pas. La terreur de le perdre l'a emporté sur toute autre considération. La dépendance.

Those who have not taken this step, who have not come to terms with themselves, are not necessarily frightened, they are perhaps helpless, disoriented, lost as one is in the middle of a forest that's too dark or dense or vast.

And when you've been hurt once, you're afraid to try again later, in dread of enduring the same pain. You avoid getting hurt in an attempt to avoid suffering: for years, this principle will serve as my holy sacrament. So many lost years.)

Je redoute la menace qui se précise, qui s'attaquerait à l'enfance.

Je comprends à l'expression de son visage que le mien doit dire l'épouvante. Il me sourit faiblement. Il me dit : « Ça va aller. » Et moi, je sais déjà que ça n'ira pas.

A dozen incidents of this kind made everyone realise that the monsters had never left them, that they had simply fallen asleep for a while, and that now their slumbers were over.

Vä?šina ?udí nemá potuchy o svojich temných stránkach, a predsa ich majú vÅ¡etci. Odhalia ich ?asto okolnosti, vojny, hladomor, revolúcie, genocídy. A ke? sa ?udia po prvý raz v skrytosti svojho vedomia nad nimi zamyslia, z?aknú sa ich a nasko?ia im zimomriavky.