Quotes About Fear

Whatever the evolutionary basis of religion, the xenophobia it now generates is clearly maladaptive.

Dream and Ne-Yo understand what women go through, what we feel, what we talk about, what we're scared of, and I think that their records show that clearly as well.

As an actor, there's always that fear. You don't know where the next job's coming from, so you say, 'I'll do that, I'll do that, I'll do that'. Your choices are not always clearly thought out, and you can end up taking mis-steps.

Fear warps our understanding of reality and even our ability to see reality clearly.

When I was young, I was clever enough to know that if I got married or had children, I would be eaten.

To move past fear is a cliche.

I do not climb really dangerous stuff.

Stand at the base and look up at 3,000 feet of blankness. It just looks like there's no way you can climb it. That's what you seek as a climber. You want to find something that looks absurd and figure out how to do it.

I know I'm not a cutting-edge free climber. Free soloing, I'm comfortable to 5.10-plus or 5.11a. But if I was a grade higher I could do some amazing things.

Annapurna was a special situation. It was a lifetime dream to finish that route. When I started climbing the South Face, I really expected not to come back alive.

The art of climbing is to go where you go knowing that you could die, but you don't die. That is adventure.

Part of me is afraid to get close to people because I'm afraid that they're going to leave.

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.

We're only human, and fear can eat away at you the closer you get to a big fight.

For so long, for my whole life I didn't have to but I lived in the closet.

I was a closet stutterer.

I think as far as I've been able to understand from my friends that I went to college with and things like that is that it almost seems like Russian Roulette when you're coming out of the closet to your parents.

Coming out of the closet doesn't always mean liberation.

Players do not come out of the closet because they are afraid. We have to appear hard and strong, but we are afraid of what people will say about us. Of course, I have nothing against anyone. I respect everybody.

At some point, I came out to a lot of friends and some family, but then I went back in the closet when I started working as an actor in America.

I feel there is this looming cloud over my life.

I'm scared of clowns.

I hate clowns.

I really didn't want to expand the negative vision of clowns because clowns are not intrinsically scary.