Quotes About Fear

Fear is a basic human instinct and an indicator of the gravity of a situation. It becomes an asset if it is effectively controlled. It becomes a weakness for a man if he lets it to prevail over him."

Vision without action is daydream. Action without vision is nightmare.

whites called in from around the country to say they were afraid to disagree with a black person for fear of being thought racist.

Jokainen on valmis mihin tahansa josta ei jää kiinni.

Unelmissa me elämme elämämme etukäteen, kun sitten näemme kaiken valheeksi, emme uskalla kumota sitä.

Love is like jumping out of an airplane with no parachute. But there's no need to be frightened, because that plane is still on the ground.

Nothing, Everything, Anything, Something: If you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something.

I wish my stove came with a Save As button like Word has. That way I could experiment with my cooking and not fear ruining my dinner.

It's scary to be a woman on a blind date. For all she knows the man she is meeting up with could be a rapist, a murderer, or, God forbid, a politician.

I'm not courageous. In fact, when I shadow box I wear boxing gloves that are outfitted with flashlights.

Of women who choose not to have children, most are undermothered and fear they won't know how. Sometimes they fear they will "mess up" their kids like they feel they have been messed up. (Although let's not forget that there are other important reasons someone may choose not to become a parent.)

It is as if, even within the privacy of our own minds, we are afraid to criticize her. We are protecting the image of mother inside, protecting our fragile relationship with her by denying anything that might unsettle it, and protecting ourselves from the disappointment, anger, and pain that we've kept out of consciousness.

Without our caretaker's protection, our only protection is to stay small and build defensive structures into our personality.

Another way to talk about this thin-skinned quality is to say that trauma tends to make you more reactive. Reactivity here means having a bigger reaction than the situation calls for, whether it is more fear, more insecurity, more anger, more mistrust, or more of any other emotion. We all get reactive at times, yet those who are caught in trauma-related disorders become reactive a lot of the time.

I mean snorted MacAfee as he went on. It's not a lie, I am not calling Tyrus rex a liar I would never do that. I would never call that man anything derogatory, if only because he can kill you like 6000 different ways if he wanted to man, imagine that, it makes you wonder you know, like how many ways have he forgotten to kill people think about...

Let me tell you: Theroux would shit himself.

Dead girls in the rear-view mirror may appear more real than they are.

Truly dreadful sounds ensue. The sounds of human disassembly.

makes these thoughts rise from primeval depths. You find yourself fearing what countless ancestors feared before you, ever since the first ambiguous shadow was cast upon a cave mouth's wall. The

The irrational fear gene lives on in us all. It's irritating, but these things need to be handled the same way as when you've taken a bad drug. Simply tell yourself how these crazy thoughts and anxieties are just down to the drug, nothing else. Then arm yourself, just in case. Damn

Hell," Tony Bonelli tells me, "is having no control." Tony's

Bravado may feel like a shield, but when you're telling yourself lies, it becomes a prison.

Death is never as distant as we believe it to be, and it will never come willingly.

Like anyone who goes to college, you're leaving a familiar surrounding and a comfortable environment and your friends and everything, and you're starting fresh. It can be pretty daunting.