Quotes About Fear

I'd always been scared of people with tertiary education and high intellects in case they found me wanting. I thought they viewed me as just a welder who knew a few jokes.

I've never done acid, finding it hard to go willingly to a place that could be frightening, hellish, and totally beyond my control. A place much like high school.

The best I could say about third grade was that it was a more or less continuous state of dread.

Everyone is in awe of the lion tamer in a cage with half a dozen lions - everyone but a school bus driver.

My heart beats, echoes into the cold streets where nightmares and darkness begin to meet.

Any time I got in emotional turmoil, I felt sick all the time, like at any minute I would die.

The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.

I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.

Fear and its accompanying emotional reactions have become part of the public mindset. Such reactions, while often legitimate, are also being exploited with increasing frequency for political ends.

When people are afraid, they make emotional decisions.

I'm afraid my voice is going to break. I am afraid she is going to hear how much this hurts.

Serial murders are just the worst stories. It can take an emotional toll on you.

Emotional Freedom is a must-read for anyone who's tired of feeling frustrated, lonely, or stopped by fear.

I knew there were no such things as death cooties. Unfortunately, that's an intellectual fact. And death cooties are an emotional reality.

Research shows that happy people look for opportunity while others see only crises. Surrendering fear is healthy!

When civilization stands at the edge of a cliff, a step forward doesn't make much sense.

I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.

Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.

You must also realize that the stuff of excellence-truth, real scientific truth-can be elusive... It is too often covered by the heavy fog of fear and hidden by the darkness of your detractors.

He lived in terror of, well, becoming ordinary.

It's kinda like being on a roller coaster. If you don't get on the ride, you won't experience the adventure.

Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

Nobody can have your psychedelic experience for you; you just have to screw your courage up and raise the cup to your lips or smoke the pipe or whatever it is and face what's in there.

Words are capable of making experience more vivid, and also of organizing it. They can scare us, and they can comfort us.