Quotes About Fear

He imagines the plane exploding as it touches down, ignited by one of its glints, in a ball of red flame shadowed in black like you see on TV all the time, and he is shocked to find within himself, imagining this, not much emotion, just a cold thrill at being a witness, a kind of bleak wonder at the fury of chemicals, and relief that he hadn't been on the plane himself but was instead safe on this side of the glass, with his faint pronged sense of doom.

The eddies his breath set in motion were destroying the smoke sculptures I was erecting. The pipestem was warm on my lower lip and I thought of lip cancer. I often think about how I will die, what disease or surgical procedure will have me in its tarantula grip, what indifferent hospital wall and weary night nurse will witness my last breath, my last second, the impossibly fine point to which my life will have been sharpened.

Ever since his heart attack there is a gnawing in his stomach whose cause he can't locate until he realizes it is the terror of being trapped inside his perishing body, like being in a prison cell with a madman who might decide to kill him at any moment

He doesn't know, what to do, where to go, what will happen, the thought that he doesn't know seems to make him infinitely small and impossible to capture. Its smallness fills him like a vastness.

The impact of an attacking tiger can be compared to that of a piano falling on you from a second story window. But unlike the piano, the tiger is designed to do this, and the impact is only the beginning.

To say a tiger is an outside animal is an understatement that is best appreciated when a tiger is inside.

Fear is not a sin in the taiga, but cow­ardice is [..].

I never rewatch the great films of my favorite directors because I'm afraid they won't hold up.

If I could pick my own death, it would be on a roller coaster that jumps the tracks and careens into a packed crowd at a cotton candy stand at a state fair.

I look out through the eyeholes and feel exactly the way Michael Jackson's son Blanket must have felt

How blest was the created state Of man and woman, ere they fell, Compared to our unhappy fate: We need not fear another hell.

Whilst wretched Man is still in Arms for fear For fear he armes, and is of Armes afraid.

a line from Søren Kierkegaard appeared on the first page to which I flipped: "There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming." I

The man who is afraid to risk failure seldom has to face success.

I am afraid of some math, science, and engineering problems, but I know I can at least read the chapters through and perhaps the fear will go away at some point in the future as I attempt the work and ask the experts.

I didn't respond to that. I'm not scared of heights. I'm just scared of falling from heights.

My number one fear is heights. Well, not so much the heights but the falling from heights. Actually the falling isn't that bad (I have a strong heart), it's the sudden stops that are painful. Believe me — I experienced it once.

The only really frightening thing about Cinnamon Hill belongs in the realm of the living and serves to remind me that some of them-just a few of them, a tiny minority-are much more dangerous than all the dead put together.

I don't think anybody's necessarily ready for death. You can only hope that when it approaches, you feel like you've said what you wanted to say. Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.

expect in many growed-up men you'd call sensible there's a little boy sleepin'—the little kid they onced was—that still keeps his fear of the dark.

But it had grown into something else, something that thrilled me even as it frightened me, made me feel that I had finally cracked through the pane of smudged glass, broken the surface of the sea. I finally felt like something other than an observer in my life.

To, co vypadá jako slabost, je ve skute?nosti vaÅ¡e síla. A to, co vypadá jako síla, je ?asto slabost, snaha skrýt strach. Je to jen hra nebo fasáda, aÃ…Â¥ p?sobí sebepÃ…â"¢esvÄ›d?ivÄ›ji na ostatní, nebo dokonce i na vás.

But if you don't see and accept things as they actually are, you won't know how to act. Or you might be overwhelmed by fear, and that fear might cloud the mind just when you most need clarity and equanimity, or at least, if clarity and equanimity seem elusive, just when you need to be aware of the fear so that you can find ways to work with it rather than have it work against you.

Prayer is the best way to face any problem, to crush every fear and to release every pain