Quotes About Fear

What were the present and future to him, he who did not fear the sandstorm? Did he know what fortune and misfortune mean, and what our tortured hearts called hope?

Pero, ¿podía haber algo que infundiera más miedo que otra noche de espera, otro día de tensión, el no-suceder, el no-actuar? ¿Acaso no se había alcanzado un punto culminante, por encima del cual solo estaba el vacío?

In fear I hurried this way and that. I had the taste of blood and chococlate in my mouth,the one as hateful as the other

The mere thought of divorce terrified me. To me, divorce symbolized failure.

Ja, liebe Klara: Es ist sehr, sehr gefährlich, auch nur einen Tag zu leben.

Jun Lloyd's been four times, once in the dead of night, and he says there's blood oozing out from under the front door, because Mr. Shank's stabbing everyone—

In literature and in art, alike, this gloomy fashion of regarding Death has been characteristic of Christianity. Death has been painted as a skeleton grasping a scythe, a grinning skull, a threatening figure with terrible face and uplifted dart, a bony scarecrow shaking an hour-glass--all that could alarm and repel has been gathered round this rightly-named King of Terrors.

You've got to jump off cliffs all the time and build your wings on the way down.

Certainly, in exchange for losing the fear of taking blame for bad outcomes, you also lose the unadulterated high of claiming good outcomes were 100% skill. That's a trade you should take. Remember, losing feels about twice as bad as winning feels good; being wrong feels about twice as bad as being right feels good. We are in a better place when we don't have to live at the edges. Euphoria or misery, with no choices in between, is not a very self-compassionate way to live.

We are much more bothered by the downside potential of changing course than we are by the downside potential of staying on the path we're already on.

Chapter 5 describes why sunk costs make it so hard to walk away. I'll dive deep into the fear of waste and how the money, time, effort, or other resources we have invested in a course of action negatively impact decisions about whether to move forward

But for so many of us, that fear of falling short makes us not want to start. As Richard Thaler quipped, "If a gold medal in the Olympics is the only grade that passes, you do not want to ever take your first gymnastics class.

The next time that you find yourself saying, "I'm just not ready to decide yet," what you should actually say is "For now I think that the status quo is still the best choice." Maybe you need more information to know whether to switch. But what shouldn't stop you from quitting (or getting that information) is that it's too scary to switch because loss aversion is too intense.

By asking her if she would be happier in the new job more than 0% of the time, that helped her see that there was some certainty in changing jobs. Specifically, she had a better chance of getting to where she wanted to go faster if she switched. In that moment, she realized the devil that she didn't know was the better choice.

Quite often I would write down on a sheet of paper the date, the time, and "he's going to come," along with other sentences, fears—that he might not come, that he might not feel the same desire for me.

Réveil blême dans la nuit. Effort pour éviter de penser à lui, en vain. Désir immédiat de passer un test de détection du sida. Comme un désir de mort et d'amour, « il m'aurait au moins laissé cela

I was afraid my mother would ask me why my period was late. I was sure she kept an eye on my underwear as she sorted through the dirty linen I would bring her once a month.

I returned to my accommodation on foot. In my diary I wrote: "I am pregnant. It's a nightmare.

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death

This is the book I never read These are the words I never said This is the path I'll never tread These are the dreams I'll dream instead This is the joy that's seldom spread These are the tears... The tears we shed This is the fear This is the dread "These are the contents of my head And these are the years that we have spent And this is what they represent And this is how I feel Do you know how I feel?" ~Annie Lennox

High-tech tomatoes. Mysterious milk. Supersquash. Are we supposed to eat this stuff? Or is it going to eat us?

The thief you must fear the most is not the one who steals mere things.

And the day came when the need to remain closed became more painful than the risk to open. ANONYMOUS

Give up being safe and your power chakra will awaken more quickly.