Quotes About Fear

If you don't answer my questions, I'll hurt you. I am authorized.

What they got, really, was a cross-section of American paranoia, of hidden prejudices rising to the surface. Whatever diverged from the mainstream was suspect.

Pacing from room to room and in each window a different version of a framed woman unable to rest, set against a sky full of beating wings and abandoned directions. Her five chambered heart filling with the panic of birds, asking: What? What if not this?

I thought: please don't grow familiar. I think I said it out loud: Please don't let me love you that horrible way. The

In the feeble glimmer of that light, we spent a sleepless night, all thinking of the same thing, the death that was concealed across the threshold of the coming dawn. Although the wind blew in through the cracked windowpanes, we thought that we would suffocate. "Enemy" planes flew overhead. The eerie wail of sirens went through the camp. Finally, the pale day broke.

One internee told me that he had been in their barrack while they waited for the trucks. The children were sitting on the floor, wide-eyed and silent. He asked one lad, "Well, how are you, Janeck?" With a thoughtful expression on his face, the child answered, "Everything is so bad here that it can only be better 'over there.' I am not afraid.

He saw it. Not in front, or behind him, just somewhere out in the darkness. It was huge and powerful. The whiteness of its fur gleamed in the light of the snow. 'Wolf, in the name of the Polish border I beg you to spare my life,' he said into the darkness. The wolf stopped behind him, wondering.

The inn looks quite luxurious, but their host explains that as the plague has racked up victims, people have grown more and more afraid to leave their homes, terrified to purchase things from those who have been stricken.

The old method for dealing with bad dreams is to tell them aloud above the toilet bowl, and then flush them away.

Mert minél tisztább, minél élesebb a tudat, annál több benne a rettegés. (...) Ha nem tudunk róla, hogy létezünk, megszabadulunk az id?t?l és a haláltól.

Being healthy is an insecure state and does not bode well. It's better to be ill in a quiet way, then at least we know what we're going to die of.

Las personas -que también son en sí mismas un proceso- tienen miedo de todo lo inestable y mutable. Por eso, imaginaron algo que no existe -la inmutabilidad- y decretaron que todo lo eterno e inmutable es perfecto. Le atribueron la inmutabilidad a Dios. Y de esta forma perdieron la capacidad de comprenderlo

No, I wasn't going to refer to cowardice. What I was going to say was, that a man contemplating suicide should bear in mind that his act is usually paid for by others. It is not just his personal affair. Everyone who takes his or her own life increases the fear in all his progeny of committing the same act during a period of depression. In fact, every blood relation he possesses gets a drop of the same poison. Nice parting gift.

In the end we only regret the chances we didn't take.

Maybe we'll evolve to a point where fear as an experience is no longer instinctual, but rather an emotion we use to enrich our understanding of why our human ancestors killed each other when they could have loved each other. One day we'll be holding hands instead of grudges; we'll eliminate our territorial circuits and know what love is. One day we'll be holding hands instead of M-16s.

His advice to me is basically to just love what you do and don't let the fear of failure stop you.

The fear of bad outcomes motivates both climate activists and their foes, but the precise details don't matter. Both sides see themselves as averting a future that they don't like more than creating one that they do.

There is another future quite different from it, which is the future we imagine, prompted by fears or hopes or lazy presumptions of regularity. Such projected futures are easy enough to construct in imagination, but ontologically they are shallow; they make little claim on our belief — even though they often market themselves at astonishingly high prices!

Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.

I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

The very minute a thought is threatened with publicity it seems to shrink towards mediocrity.

Ignorance breeds fear. Tell people the truth. Trust them to keep their heads.

Don't be silly, you only catch what you fear to catch", and, fearing nothing, he saw himself immune.

They have,' she said, 'the uniformity of their insecurity.