Quotes About Fear

There's a lot of fear - in fact, teachers and parents are calling it the Trump effect. Bullying is up. A lot of people are feeling, you know, uneasy. A lot of kids are expressing their concerns.

In this age of censorship, I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced-writers' voices, teachers' voices, students' voices-and all because of fear.

If you say "I'm going to be an actor, but I'll get a teaching degree just in case," when things get hard, you'll just be a teacher and that's how you get stuck.

Crosses?" "Definitely" "Why?" "Because they're evil, soulless, bloodsucking fiends?" "So was my sixth-grade gym teacher, but he wasn't afraid of a cross.

I'm very superstitious... I never shout at magpies, walk under ladders or put my shoes on the table.

When in doubt or danger, run in circles, scream and shout.

As technology advances in complexity and scope, fear becomes more primitive.

People think that knowing the future can help you prepare for what is to come - but often it only makes you powerless.

beauty is nothing but the start of terror we can hardly bear, and we adore it because of the serene scorn it could kill us with

The hours are slow in passing as they always are when you are waiting in fear for you know not what: I am reminded of the moments before the coming of a cyclone, when you have barricaded yourself into your dwelling and have nothing else to do but wait. The moments will not pass, the air hangs still and heavy; it is as though time itself has been slowed by the friction of fear.

Terror is an emanation of virtue.

It was not that he was a man of unusual courage—far from it. But he knew also that fear was not—contrary to what was often said—an instinct. It was something learned, something that accumulated in the mind through knowledge, experience and upbringing.

I thought of all the hours that i has spent at passport and visa counters, and the stark terror that an immigration officer's frown could still send through me.

Anyone willing to change," Shmuel said, "will always be considered a traitor by those who cannot change and are scared to death of change and don't understand it and loathe change.

Maybe they feared that a knowledge of languages would expose me too to the blandishments of Europe, that wonderful, murderous continent.

Agnon himself was an observant Jew who kept the Sabbath and wore a skullcap; he was, literally, a God-fearing man: in Hebrew, fear and faith are synonyms. There are corners in Agnon's stories where, in an indirect, cleverly camouflaged way, the fear of God is portrayed as a terrible dread of God: Agnon believes in God and fears him, but he does not love him.

Because the dark, the parents said, the dark is full of things it is definitely better not to meet.

Tuttavia, nessuno in paese usciva mai di casa quando era buio. Perché il buio, dicevano i genitori, il buio è pieno di cose che è decisamente meglio non incontrare.

Kad su moji prijatelji otkrili da se družimo, po?eli su me nazivati izdajnikom. Nakon mnogo dana polako sam pronašao utjehu u misli da je izdajnik u o?ima fanatika onaj koji se usu?uje promijeniti. Svaka vrsta fanatizma, u svako vrijeme i na svakome mjestu, izražava gnušanje prema promjeni, strahuje od nje te sumnji?avo vidi promjenu zapravo kao izdaju koja izvire iz mra?nih i podlih pobuda.

When you are a pessimist and the bad thing happens, you live it twice. Once when you worry about it, and the second time when it happens.

People pay an enormous price to avoid mild embarrassment

Everything I've ever done that's valuable is something I was afraid to try.

Unlike Western parents, reminding my child of Lord Voldemort didn't bother me.

In my head there's a broken balcony I fall off of when I speak.