Quotes About Fear

I think any time you hear that you're about to paralyze yourself, or even worse, it's just scary because you start to realize how precious life is.

I think, as journalists, we sometimes are afraid to enter into the emotional lives and the complications of the lives of the people we write about - we don't really have the space and the room to deal with those things. But as a novelist, that's precisely what you're writing about.

I've always performed. From the time that I was little, I was pretty precocious and always gravitated toward performing arts. But I was scared at first, deciding to do it for a living. So, initially, I majored in journalism, and I was pretty miserable.

I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.

I would hate now to be married. It does occur to me on occasion that, if I fall and hit my head, there will be no one to make the phone call. But who wants to think about that disaster, I'd prefer not to.

I would prefer to be a little nervous, because when you stop being nervous is kind of when you stop caring.

I am not finding pregnancy much of a joy. I am afraid of childbirth, but I am afraid I can't find a way of avoiding it.

I think that what scares me more than getting fat during pregnancy is the responsibility of a child.

My entire pregnancy with Major, I was nervous about enduring another long labor.

The older I get though, the more scared I am about the pregnancy situation. I don't want to be too old that I can't enjoy it.

I like trying to get pregnant, I'm not so sure about childbirth.

Everybody thinks for one moment when they're pregnant that they're actually carrying the spawn of the devil.

I get quite bad anxiety and it's come back a bit while I've been pregnant. I don't know why I have it - it's just general life anxiety.

My mother had a lot of phobias. She's pregnant with me and she was a very phobic person. So I was born into phobia, basically.

When I found out I was pregnant, I was 22. It was really scary because I was working the music thing, and with a kid coming, you just can't live that life with a child.

I had a terrible dream when I was pregnant; I dreamt the baby had a ventriloquial mouth, but there was no hand hole; I had to flick the mouth down to get words out.

In the summer of 1956, my mother was pregnant with me, which caused my father to confess his fear that I was going to be too much of a burden for him because he had a history of depression.

Being pregnant is a marvellous experience. Before, I was afraid about the idea of giving birth, but now, I'm really looking forward to it.

I gave birth to my son when I was 39, in 2011, as my contracts didn't allow me to get pregnant. I was scared that if I get pregnant, it will be the end of my career.

Worse than finding out you're pregnant at 17 is having to tell your mum and dad.

The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.

I find that the prejudice in this country to color is very great, and I sometimes fear that it is on the increase.