Quotes About Fear

First, and perhaps most importantly, despair and pessimism are in our very natures. We're wired to seek out bad news over good, and to always fear the worst. So bad news seizes our attention, while good news is often ignored.

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I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." —J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb upon seeing the first test detonation (quoting from Hindu scripture)

Lucretius said, 'fear begets gods,' and he was right.

Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result." —Winston Churchill

Winston Churchill had once famously pointed out that nothing in life was as exhilarating as being shot at without result.

Probably a serial killer, she thought to herself.

An unknown threat lurking in the shadows can wear a man down faster than a known one.

It was a tale as old as time. Boy meets girl. Boy purchases girl to protect him. Boy and girl fall in love. Boy prays that girl won't let him die horribly as he puts his UFO-questing nose where various parties don't want it to be.

We had been trying for a hint of amusement, but were failing miserably. Apparently, dread wasn't an easy emotion to displace

We're our own worst enemy.

True courage is being scared out of your mind, having everything to lose, and acting anyway.

If your ancestors heard the rustle of a friendly breeze far away in the tall grass, and ran away, mistaking the breeze for a lion, this cost them very little. But if they heard the rustle of a lion in the tall grass, and mistook it for a friendly breeze, this would cost them their lives. Seeing potential bad news behind every harmless breeze is a survival instinct.

Then said the brave Horatius, The Captain of the Gate, "To every man upon this earth, Death cometh soon or late. And how can a man die better Than facing fearful odds. For the ashes of his fathers, And the temples of his Gods.

Fairy tales do not tell children that monsters exist. Children already know that monsters exist. Fairy tales tell children that monsters can be killed." —G.K. Chesterton, (English writer and philosopher)

Fairy tales do not tell children that monsters exist. Children already know that monsters exist. Fairy tales tell children that monsters can be killed." —G.K. Chesterton,

First, people are born to worry. That's how we made it to the top of the food chain. Constant anxiety is the curse that comes with consciousness, with sentience. We're the only species smart enough to fear not only actual, present threats, but also a myriad of imagined threats. Worse, we're the only species burdened with the knowledge of our own mortality. And this makes us the most neurotic animal on Earth.

Because monsters under the bed did exist, after all. Psychopaths like Sena.

Those without a conscience, without a soul, had a huge advantage over those burdened by ethics, self-doubt, and decency, as they were capable of epic displays of betrayal and duplicity, without fear, guilt, or remorse ever entering the picture.

When a stampeding herd of cattle were coming your way, it didn't much matter what had caused the stampede. You only had to know that no argument would alter its course, no persuasion would save your life if you were standing in its path. Recinos

Cowards die many times before their death. The valiant never taste of death but once." —Shakespeare (Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene II)

I am become death, the destroyer of worlds." —J. Robert Oppenheimer, father of the atomic bomb upon seeing the first test detonation

the president began dictating what became his famous declaration of hope for "a world founded upon four essential human freedoms" - freedom of speech and expression; freedom of religion; freedom from want; and freedom from fear. These were, he said, not a vision for "a distant millennium" but "a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation.

Action cures fear, inaction creates terror.