Quotes About Fear

Or how he was once found on the well regarded Rabbi's front lawn, bound in white string, and said he tied one around his finger to remember something terribly important, and fearing he would forget the index finger, he tied a string around his pinky, and then one from waist to neck, and fearing he would forget this one, he tied a string from ear to tooth to scrotum heel, and used his body to remember his body, but in the end could only remember the string. Is this someone to trust for a story?

Little was known, which made what little was known terrifying.

He was too ethical, and too much of a coward. (Sometimes it was hard to differentiate.)

At this moment in the environmental movement, we can jump from the bridge, or we can cross it. We can allow the fear that it's too late or too difficult to ensure resources for future generations to incapacitate us, or we can allow those fears to capacitate us.

He leaned down and whispered, 'Haunted.' I whispered back, 'I don't believe in the paranormal.' He said, 'Ghosts don't care if you believe in them'.

Would I jump or would I burn? I guess I would jump, because then I wouldn't have to feel pain. On the other hand, maybe I would burn, because then I'd at least have a chance to somehow escape, and even if I couldn't, feeling pain is still better than not feeling, isn't it?

I am so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything.

Life is scarier than death

Siguranta si pace la adapost de ce? - Nu stiu. Siguranta si pace la adapost de ne-siguranta si de ne-pace.

We would have been safe.

Brod was afraid any tears of her own would cause the walls of the old house to give way, so she sandbagged them behind her eyes, exiled them to someplace deeper, safer.

So much sublimation: domestic closeness had become intimate distance, intimate distance had become shame, shame had become resignation, resignation had become fear, fear had become resentment, resentment had become self-protection.

None of his colleagues or friends, or former colleagues or former friends, had died. Sometimes it amazed him that he'd managed to live forty-two years without proximity to mortality. And that amazement was always followed by the fear that the statistics would catch up with him and offer a lot of death at once. And he wouldn't be ready.

It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.

Herkes uzun yaÅŸamak ister ama kimse yaÅŸlanmak istemez.

Fear is like the wilderland - Stepping stones or sinking sand

The scariest thing about life that I have yet to face is to know whether or not I lived, for I won't know the answer until I'm dead ~By Jordan

Alguien que no se anima a ser quien es por miedo a que lo rechacen, que no se anima a sentir lo que siente porque le parece que está mal, que no se anima a pensar lo que piensa o a decirlo porque tiene miedo de ser rechazado, alguien que no corre riesgos porque no se banca las responsabilidades y que no sale a buscar lo que necesita sino que se lo pide a otro, alguien así no llega a ser una persona y, por lo tanto, vamos a tener que pensar que es un individuo.

Para volar hay que empezar asumiendo riesgos.

El tiempo es muy lento para los que esperan, muy rápido para los que tienen miedo, muy largo para los que se lamentan, y muy corto para los que festejan. Y para los que aman… para los que aman, el tiempo es eternidad. W. SHAKESPEARE

Celar es sostener la creencia de que mi amado le da a otra persona lo que solamente yo tengo derecho a querer de él. O como dice Ambrose Bierce en su Diccionario del diablo: "Celar es temer perder a alguien, que si uno perdiera por lo que teme perderlo... no valdría la pena haberlo conservado".

Siempre hay dos opciones existenciales: estamos en el amor o estamos en el miedo. Cuando estamos instalados en el miedo, tememos ser heridos y el corazón se cierra, el ego toma el control y queremos un disfrute sin riesgos. Nos volvemos posesivos, queremos todo de todos, que nos contengan, que nos tengan en cuenta permanentemente, que no nos sofoquen ni manipulen.

Yo tuve más miedo que el, porque no se trataba solo de gusto y amor, la cosa era de coraje tambien. Había que tener muchas güevas para meterse con una mujer como Rosario.

De qué otra forma se puede amenazar que no sea de muerte? Lo interesante, lo original, sería que alguien lo amenace a uno con la inmortalidad.