Quotes About Fear

The side of me that feared fire and longed for ice, that cringed at noise and hungered for silence, that shied from touch and desired to numb itself into nothing.

This side of passion was my first perversion. The tendency toward excess veered out of control into bulimia, that state of fear and desire, that violent crashing back and forth between hunger and the abortion of hunger, between taking in and throwing back what is most needed and instinctively desired: food. The bread of life.

the elements of myself that not so much want to die, but are afraid to live.

We can be so afraid lost inside in search of a mother And yet we go about shouting "justice" and hurting one another.

To fully express the true self is at best a calculated risk.

At least, when it comes, the black night of death will not frighten a creature still blind from being born. That is some comfort, is it not?

Ahbear! Ahbear!" "Ahwoooooooooooooooooo!

Ahbearrrrrrrrrrrr!

Ahbearrrrrrrrr!

As soon as whatever provisional well of confidence dries up, I will feel like a frightened motherless child. And I will—what? Lessee, I'll beg friends to assure me I'm fascinating, that my soul is complex so I can once more conduce to irony. An abyss opens up.

She's strong! And scary...I bet she's single...I'd put money on it..

She's strong! And scary...I bet she's single...I'd put money on it..

It's foolish to fear what we've yet to see and know.

Nachts II Die Nacht, In der Das Fürchten Wohnt, Hat auch Die Sterne Und den Mond.

In all societies, public rhetoric involves some measure of lying, and history -- political history and art history -- is made when someone effectively confronts the lie. But in really scary societies all public conversation is an exercise in using words to mean their opposites -- in describing the brave as traitorous , the weak as frightening , and the good as bad -- and confronting these lies is the most scary and lonely thing a person can do.

A constant state of low-level dread made people easy to control, because it robbed them of the sense that they could control anything themselves. This was not the sort of anxiety that moved people to action and accomplishment. This was the sort of anxiety that exceeded human capacity.

I keep eating for fear I will be hungry.

Cruelty is softened by fear, not pity.

While there's life, there's fear.

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

Existen dos cosas que es menester cortar: el temor a lo futuro y la memoria de las molestias pasadas: éstas ya no me atañen, aquél aún no.»

Love is What We Are Born With. Fear is What We Learn. Hovsep Kazezian - www.Hkazezian.com

War, I concluded, paralyzes people's power of judgment.