Quotes About Fear

Nenhum governo do mundo manda mais que o medo e a culpa. O medo me fez viver, recatado e pequeno. A culpa me fez fugir de mim, desabitado de memórias.

Quem parte treme, quem regressa teme.

Por primera vez, Dios tuvo miedo de que la creación desafiase al Creador.

O medo é uma faca que corta com o cabo e não com a lâmina. A gente empunha a faca e, quanto maior o pulso, mais nos cortamos.

A guerra é uma cobra que usa os nossos próprios dentes para nos morder.

Lo que ha sucedido es que, con el tiempo, he dejado de estar a la expectativa. Y quien deja de estar a la expectativa es porque ya ha dejado de vivir. Y por eso es por lo que huyo: tengo miedo de ser devorada. No por la ansiedad que habita en mí. Devorada por el vacío de no amar. Devorada por el deseo de ser amada.

Quien vive en estas casas no es gente —rectifica el administrador. —¿No vive gente? —pregunta Gustavo—. Entonces ¿quién vive? —Ahora quien vive aquí es el miedo —responde.

No meu tempo de menino tínhamos pena dos pobres. Eles cabiam naquele lugarzinho menor, carentes de tudo, mas sem perder humanidade. Os meus filhos, hoje, têm medo dos pobres. A pobreza converteu-se num lugar monstruoso.

I learned a long time ago that there is something worse than missing the goal, and that's not pulling the trigger.

because one morning as the sun was coming up I told myself that I had to swallow up all of the fear and garbage around me, and once it was inside me I had to transform it all into candy. Becuase I know you will be able to love me for it.

Voltaire once said that God was merely a comedian playing before an audience that was afraid to laugh?

Perhaps more than the prospect of an Iranian bomb, I realized early in my term, Obama feared the impact of a preemptive Israeli strike.

society is at the mercy of a murderer without a motive

We don't 'see' odds – how likely the thing is – we 'see' consequences. That's what people would mean if they were to say 'picture the risk'. They mean picture the worst that can happen.

But caution can have unintended consequences. After the 9/11 attacks in New York, many people felt more nervous of flying and took to their cars instead. Psychologist Gerd Gigerenzer states that 1,500 more people than usual were killed on US roads over the following year.10

When you go to Washington now, you can feel a sense of fear in the air the fear to do anything, or say anything, that might affect the polls, or give the other side an advantage, or offend a special interest.

I have a tendency to sabotage relationships I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.

Nothing like a puppet to give you the willies.

Jabberwocky, causing serious mayhem.

For one, he was worried he'd get killed, which was something he generally tried to avoid.

The slave is held most securely when he is held by the chains of his own will and of his own fears, and when he is locked down by his own slavish desires for a comfortable life.

death was permanent, and should be avoided if possible.

I don't know how else to describe it. I am afraid to say: 'I believe in the dream per se.' Just as it is, just as it was, just as when I am empty of night when I haven't dreamt.

I can't really act - I'm just trying to make as much money as I can before anyone finds out.