Quotes About Fear

In my ArtI have butone fear:that we willfail to befearless.

Galleries are frightening places, places of evaluation, of judgement.

The more horrifying this world becomes the more art becomes abstract.

The terror of art lies in the representation of the hidden reality with its shattering effect.

Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.

What developed in my early days was the attitude to start attacking the thing I was scared of

Fear is a primal emotion in medicine. Every doctor can tell you of times when she or he was terrified; most can list more episodes than you might wish to hear. [...] It may be sublimated at times, it may wax and wane, but the fear of harming your patients never departs; it is inextricably linked to the practice of medicine.

Giving patients the information that they need—not necessarily the standard of care in 1964—goes a long way toward relieving the anxiety and fear that worsen pain. But what was impressive was the magnitude of the effect. The group with the extra discussion needed half the amount of pain medication that the control group needed.

Don't make decisions out of fear. They never get yo anywhere you want to go.

It was frightening to realize how fast things could go wrong.

Courage is not the absence of fear or despair, but the strength to conquer them.

I am afraid of other things, of a world that allows a travesty to exist like the one we just lived, where brother betrays brother and nothing is safe or true or right. We allowed that to happen. We gave our country away. We allowed evil to exist and to prosper.

I fear that once you put weapons in men's hands, they don't let go of them easily.

what she had feared, and exactly the opposite of what he had promised two weeks before. He felt like a

madman and a monster.

Oh sweet girl, he said, feeling his heart go out to her, giving her everything he had tried to keep from her, and suddenly he knew what had been wrong between them. He had never dared to lover her.

dreading the trip. I've never seen so much medicine and

la vida era vivir, no acurrucarse en un rincón demasiado asustada, cansada o decepcionada como para moverse o probar nada nuevo.

daunted by the group. She said hello

impending doom when the terrorists had released the video of Jack. It was as though her body knew that

maybe sometimes it's riskier not to take a risk. Sometimes all you're guaranteeing is that things will stay the same.

Take the stupidest thing you've ever done. At least it's done. It's over. It's gone. We can all learn from our mistakes and heal and move on. But it's harder to learn or heal or move on from something that hasn't happened; something we don't know and is therefore indefinable; something which could very easily have been the best thing in our lives, if only we'd taken the plunge, if only we'd held our breath and stood up and done it, if only we'd said yes.

the frightening truth about desire it's on but i don't know whether i want to be her, fuck her or borrow her clothes.

The insane conspiracy theories that motivate people who commit antisemitic violence reflect a fear of real freedom: a fondness for tyrants, an aversion to ideas unlike their own, and most of all, a casting-off of responsibility for complicated problems. None of this is a coincidence.