Quotes About Fear

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn't have that kind of personality, and it's a terrifying thing to say.

What I don't understand is how women can pour hot wax on their bodies, let it dry, then rip out every single hair by its root and still be scared of spiders.

According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.

A recent survey stated that the average person's greatest fear is having to give a speech in public. Somehow this ranked even higher than death which was third on the list. So, you're telling me that at a funeral, most people would rather be the guy in the coffin than have to stand up and give a eulogy.

Tina hit that tingle in the back of his head, the fuse that usually stayed damp, the one that got lit on those rare occasions when he met a woman who actually scared him. It was sort of like sex, but harder to find.

Just wanting Nora- wanting something that wasn't a drug- was such a novelty, such a world-changingly unlikely circumstance, I was afraid to breathe for fear it would all turn out to be some near-death hallucination.

At times, feeling the wind on my brow, I went numb with horror. In my imagination I saw armies of ants and cockroaches calling to one another and scurrying toward my head, to some place under the top of my skull, where they would build new nests. There they would proliferate and eat out my thoughts, one after another, until I would become as empty as the shell of a pumpkin from which all the fruit has been scraped out.

Hot Tinder: swans don't fear death Kai: cuz of their freakish swan strength Hot Tinder: they sing when it comes

Me asomo a la ventana, con temor de ver lo que no quiero ver.

El aire cruza rozando sus mejillas, el sudor frío se escapa de su ser, huye desesperado.

imposible negar los sentimientos de miedo, arrepentimiento, angustia, soledad, clandestinidad que siempre nos acompañaron.

While their beneficence ensured no one they approved of ever went hungry, sick or homeless in Lilydale, they also used their influence to control the local population, harass those who stepped out of line and create a culture of fear that had neighbors telling on neighbors.

You aren't having something taken from you. Trust me, I know that feeling and this is not it. You are surrendering something. You fear it, so you'll just let it go. Throw it away like it means nothing when it's obvious it means everything.

I had discovered that Lucy, despite her tough demeanor, was actually quite insecure; she really needed to be dominated.

When I think about what my future holds, it is a bit like looking into the sun. I flinch away, or I don't and my eyes get burned down a bit, like candles, and then I can't see for a while.

One is expecting something , and can't say what — yet when one sees it , one knows what one knew , what one knew and couldn't say . It is this way with death . It is in our nature to feel the extent of it when we face it , and to have it fall away the moment we turn

there is also an underlying, less specific fear - what some might call an ontological or existential anxiety - that shrouds our days and seeps into our dreams. We feel empty and seek meaning. We feel empty and seek meaning. We yearn and know not what we yearn for. There is a black hole at the center of our understanding that engulfs and crushes our every attempt to explore it. Something is missing.

So here we are today with a new conversation. When University of Georgia plays Georgia Tech, it's uniform color versus skin color. We have - we've overcome that level of racial fear.

At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division.

There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps... then turn around and see somebody white and feel relieved.

George Bush keeps saying that terrorists keep attacking us because we have freedom here in America. So what, the solution is to take away our freedoms and they won't attack us?

Being brave isn't about being unafraid. It's about functioning through the fear.

All that is bad and dreaded is projected into the other, and all the anxiety is seen as the product of external attack rather than one's own subjective state . . . [which] the fear of the other's omnipotence as well as the need to retaliate by asserting one's own omnipotence.

Americans now fear outliving their assets more than they fear dying.