Quotes About Fear

All around me is cowardice and deceit.

You don't feel courageous because courage is not an emotion. There is no such thing as feeling "courageous." It is an imaginary emotion. Courage consists of doing what you said you would do even when you don't want to. In the face of danger, you have a choice to be the delegate of either your commitments or your feelings. It's as simple and as difficult as that. "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." -- Ambrose Redmoon

Almost everything is tuned to keeping the status quo shuffling along. When your life really takes off, some of your friends are very likely to perceive this as a threat because you, not they, are stepping out into a new future. They will cajole you to keep within conventional bounds, to be reasonable, to do the "right" thing.

By thinking ahead of the present position, the mind is building up a substantial fear of the future, while the physiological and biomechanical processes of the body, untended by the conscious mind here at mile six, begin to break down because of the lack of attention. When

After dinner, I become afraid despite myself. I know I should be joyous, for this reunion is the proof that love can still be outs, but I know the bell has tolled this evening. The sun has long since set and the thief is about to come, and there is nothing I can do to stop it. So I stare at her and wait and live a lifetime in these last remaining moments.

Men have a fight-or-flight response, they say. For women, it's fight or flight, or freeze. Because in the face of overpowering physical strength, our overriding instinct is to survive, to not die here. I went numb, suspending my consciousness. It was a technique I had perfected as a child during beatings.

La peur est tellement envahissante, tellement omniprésente, qu'elle en devient presque normale. Il n'en demeure pas moins que vivre sous l'emprise de la peur, même quand elle ne vous quitte jamais, est une expérience éprouvante [...].

But Minnie isn't tired. And she isn't sleeping either. She has simply run out of courage. It's not, as everyone keeps pretending, an unlimited resource. Because

So I'm to duel with a snake-hope I can manage to be a good enough impersonation of a mongoose.

Foolish man. You cannot turn me into a phantom because you are frightened. You do not dismiss a muse at whim. - Sabine Strohem

I don't think I am scared of intimacy, but I am frightened of making a mistake. offering more than I have, or expecting more than you can give. - Matt Sedon

I was frightened to go forward, but I was even more frightened of going back.

Would your fear be any less and would you see that you had been chosen to help the sun rise? -Sabine to Matthew

Do you hear what I hear, babe? Does it make you feel afraid?

I am damned,' thinks Bunny Munro in a sudden moment of self-awareness reserved for those who are soon to die.

Death looms large I guess because it should. It's the one thing that we as human beings from birth have a right to. It's the only thing we've really got, and I don't mean to sound bleak about this, but it's a unifying factor amongst us all.

A great wall of darkness moves towards him. He can see it coming. vast and imperious. It is unconsciousness and it its sleep. It moves like a great tidal wave. But before it brakes over him and he is away. Before he renders himself completely to that oblivious sleep. He thinks with a sudden terrible bottomless dread of Avril Lavigne's vagina.

No dejéis que os digan que no hay monstruos.

My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are.

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

The worst aspect of the fear the ayatollahs spread was that Western intellectuals were afraid of admitting that they were afraid. If they had been honest, they would have forced society to confront the fact of censorship. As it was, their silence made the enemies of liberalism stronger.

they illustrated an unacknowledged truth about contemporary writing: reporters, editors and artists in Britain, America and most of Europe are not afraid of politicians. They are frightened of Islamists, and do not run cartoons that might offend them. They are frightened of oligarchs and CEOs, and worry about libel and the ability of the wealthy to bend the ear of their proprietors. But they are not frightened about leaking the secrets or criticising the actions of elected governments.

Boggan got him to translate and heard how hairdressers in Baghdad had to report subversive remarks made by women under the driers. What was a hairdresser to do if her sensibly wary customers steered clear of politics? For how long could she keep telling the secret police that she had nothing to report, without running the risk of the spies marking her down as uncooperative?

Other US networks that banned images of Muhammad said they were censoring because they were liberals who wanted to display their respect and tolerance. 'No you're not,' Stone said. 'You're afraid of getting blown up. That's what you're afraid of. Comedy Central copped to that, you know: "We're afraid of getting blown up.