Quotes About Fear

We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.

That doomsday idea is in everybody's subconscious.

I absolutely love writing about the things that scare me, the things that keep me up at night. I don't quite know why. Perhaps because so many things do scare me, and this is my subconscious way of trying to exercise some control over things that go bump in the night!

My fear is with the onset of mainstream interest in extreme sports that diversity will be subdued and eventually snubbed out within our great outdoor community. Shouldn't we question when the leaders of our community try to manipulate our culture into a mono crop?

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Death is not my best subject.

I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.

What they were giving me seemed incredibly real to me, so I'd react to it in a very real way. That was frightening for me, especially because of the subject.

I think there's a lot of anxiety about being seen as a bad parent. There's still a lot of subjects that I think people aren't entirely comfortable being honest about.

Horror movies can be very interesting because they can deal with intangible subjects that are full of emotion.

I think a lot of kids are interested in two science subjects: dinosaurs and aliens. The reason is almost genetic; we're hard-wired to be interested in things that might be a little dangerous.

A novel - it's also a way of attacking subjects that you cannot confront in the eye.

All major cities are the same. People have the same sensibilities and they get afraid of the same subjects, groaning at the same things.

It's really scary or it's easy to generate fear around an idea or around an -ism when you don't provide any substance to it.

Someone told me that they didn't want to take a flu shot because they didn't want to put a foreign substance in their body. What do they think they do at dinner every night?

When considering real-world issues, particularly those that touch on science and technology, it is harder to speak in platitudes or rely purely on emotion or fear. Substance, or its lack, becomes harder to mimic or mask, which is why I wish we had a true televised presidential debate on these subjects.

Everybody talking about being afraid of being boring is boring. You have to go for the real substance of life after awhile.

Somehow, married or single, we'd rather anesthetize ourselves with love substitutes than go for the real thing, because let's face it: The real thing is pretty scary.

I'm kind of intimidated by the big screen - I often keep my performances much smaller and much more natural and subtle.

I feel like fear is a very real thing, a very ubiquitous thing, and it can be very subtle.

I had panic attacks as a little girl, and they were not subtle.

The reason people get afraid of writing real, honest journalism and fiction, and the reason corrupted people and demagogues are afraid of journalism and fiction and poetry across the world, is because it is a subversive form.

The Bay of Pigs was an operation the United States endorsed. That was a preventive operation. We were afraid that Castro was going to subvert the hemisphere.

If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.