Quotes About Fear

I see Canada as a country torn between a very northern, rather extraordinary, mystical spirit which it fears and its desire to present itself to the world as a Scotch banker.

If there is nothing left to desire, there is everything to fear, an unhappy state of happiness.

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool.

I don't have any desire to learn. I feel it's like a voodoo, that it would spoil things if I actually learnt how things are done.

Never underestimate the desire to bolt.

We've all had that fear, that despair of losing someone, or this fierce desire because it's not reciprocated. The less reciprocation there is, the more desire we have.

Nothing makes us more cowardly and unconscionable than the desire to be loved by everyone.

When had my fear of broken plates gotten so grandiose? My desire for extravagant moments so small?

The desire to gain wealth and the fear to lose it are our chief breeders of cowardice and propagators of corruption.

There is nothing else for people to do. They do not think. They feel no passion, no hatred, no sadness; they feel nothing but fear, and a desire to control. So they watch, and poke, and pry.

All I desire for my own burial, is not to be buried alive; but how or where, I think, must be entirely indifferent to every rational creature.

Like art, political action gives shape and expression to the things we fear as well as to those we desire. It is a creative process, drawing on the power to imagine as well as to act.

Plot is merely the mechanism by which your character is forced up against her deepest fears and desires.

Wonder has no opposite; it springs up already doubled in itself, compounded of dread and desire at once, attraction and recoil, producing a thrill, the shudder of pleasure and of fear.

Dreams surround our desires with ugliness and dread.

The desire to create literature leads to frights, grunts, and coy looks.

Dying for dark - the darker the worse. Strange.

Do not fear the fire within you, burning brighter than any star it attracts only those whose flame feeds off the very air that you breathe. Let passion be the inferno that engulfs your soul.

We should never allow our fears or the expectations of others to set the frontiers of our destiny.

To step toward your destiny, you have to step away from your security.

Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.

Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will.

To step toward your destiny, you may have to step away from your security.