Quotes About Fear

I have looked evil in the eye, my friend. I am afraid to say it does not blink.

It is the most complete skin-crawling, silently screaming evocation of hell; the reinforced concrete transubstantiation of sleepless megalomania and hysterical fear.

That's all beliefs are; stories we tell ourselves to stop being afraid. Beliefs have very little to do with the truth.

It wasn't a conventional divorce trial. The king's advisers wouldn't allow that, for fear that Caroline would introduce counterevidence of her husband's adultery, of which there was plenty.

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters.The beak that grips her, she becomes.

We are not supposed to go down into the darkness of the core. Yet, if we can risk it, the something born of that nothing is the beginning of truth.

We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings. And the fear of our deepest cravings keeps them suspect, keeps us docile and loyal and obedient, and leads us to settle for...many facets of our own oppression.

if you unquestioningly accept one piece of the culture that despises and fears you, you are vulnerable to other pieces.

But it is the subjects, the conversations, the facts we shy away from, which claim us in the form of writer's block, as mere rhetoric, as hysteria, insomnia, and constriction of the throat.

A thinking woman sleeps with monsters

We stayed mute and disloyal because we were afraid I would have touched my fingers to where your breasts had been but we never did such things

There is nothing North Americans seem to fear so much as manipulation, probably because at some level we know that we belong to a deeply manipulative system.

Perhaps many white North Americans fear an overtly political art because it might persuade us emotionally of what we think we are "rationally" against; it might get us on a level we have lost touch with; undermine the safety we have built for oneselves, remind us of what is better left forgotten.

It means that most of the time I am eager, longing for the possibility of telling you. That these possibilities may seem frightening, but not destructive, to me. That I feel strong enough to hear your tentative and groping words. That we both know we are trying all the time, to extend the possibilities of truth between us. The possibility of life between us.

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

The folks who read my books are so passionate about each one of them that the people making my movies are more afraid of my readership than they are of me.

With Fellini, the fear dropped out of my work because it was such a happy experience... hanging out with Fellini, having pasta on the set with Fellini, and going out with Fellini!

People think that if you've written a book and somebody's given you a pat on the back then, you know, it's all - you're all settled, you know? You're going to be fine. I know that if I'm not confused, and really afraid, my work isn't going to be any good.

For me, I actually found that it would have been more frightening to take the conventional path.

Some gods may cross your path, but why should gods be beautiful? They could also be frightening.

If there's a black cat that crosses the street in my path, I will turn around and walk 20 minutes out of my way to not cross it.

It's an odd feeling, knowing someone is trying to kill you. On the front line, you learn quickly that if you're in the path of a bullet, you will get hit.

I have a pathological fear of confrontation. I'm working on that.

It doesn't hit you until you pull up to the hospital, and you see 'cancer' in big letters, and you're the patient. Then it all kind of comes home.