Quotes About Fear

The children become pawns and are deprived of a loving parent, taught to fear and hate their father.

Eureka! I remember now, I accidentally came upon my parents having sex, and the trauma that I've long repressed has caused my inordinate fear of being nailed shut in a cello case.

Lately I've been tempted to leave my profession and do something else and that desire scares me. And what would you do? Anything. I don't know, write, read, maybe just study, take lessons, find out what I really want, who I really am. Maybe I'm a dilettante, is it that bad?

I dined alone and went to sleep, keeping one eye open all night lest Milt Rosen roll over onto my side of the bed. I was prepared to let out a piercing shriek.

No es que tenga miedo de morir, es que no quiero estar aquí cuando ocurra.

He couldn't bear the thought that she would want to go to an orgy, much less with or without him.

I still experienced some moderate feelings of anxiety—like when you're buried alive.

Why did you go towards the monster when he wanted to eat you up instead of running away? Now he's swallowed you. Today you're still a monk, but tomorrow you'll be a turd.

Pasa uno tanto tiempo junto la miedo que le agarra confianza

La locura es aquella enfermedad que sólo nos amenaza cuando ya sus uñas se han alojado en las entrañas, de modo que pelear contra ella es también despedazarnos el vientre, oprimirnos los pulmones, perder el miedo a la muerte como se pierden la inocencia y el amor.

Siempre creyó que un novelista debe estar a la altura de sus historias, y desde siempre le aquejó el temor de nunca ser lo suficientemente bravo

Me daba miedo amar y no sabía ser amada, si quieres que lo ponga en plan de melodrama. No sé por qué le tengo tanta tirria a la palabra amor.

We're all going to die, but does that mean we have to be buried alive?

When your own life is threatened, your sense of empathy is blunted by a terrible, selfish hunger for survival.

It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.

Slice a pear and you will find that its flesh is incandescent white. It glows with inner light. Those who carry a knife and a pear are never afraid of the dark.

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.

I was more afraid that in a few words thrown out he might destroy something that I loved. What if his words had the effect of polio on me? What a terrible disease that must be if it could kill God in a man.

animals don't escape from somewhere but from something

I have read that there are two fears that cannot be trained out of us: the startle reaction upon hearing an unexpected noise, and vertigo. I would like to add a third, to wit, the rapid and direct approch of a known killer

Quickly you make rash decisions. You dismiss your last allies: hope and trust. There, you've defeated yourself. Fear, which is but an impression, has triumphed over you.

fear...is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life...you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.

Much hostile and aggressive behaviour among animals is the expression of social insecurity.

Strach to jedyny prawdziwy przeciwnik ?ycia.