Quotes About Fear

My firstborn, Michael, nearly died in his first moments of life, and he was sickly for some weeks after. I recall clearly those anxious days, peering into his incubator. I remember aching to hold him, and yet, superstitiously, I feared that if I made that connection, if I dared to love him more than I already did, he would be snatched from me.

I'm afraid, she thought. When there's someone to cling to, I'll cling. And I'll grow weak again, like roses unable to stand free, once trained to a trellis.

Why was it that the only choices that truly mattered were the ones you felt least prepare to make?

I didn't stand up to my jailers because I realized how quickly I would have been overpowered.

Fear and bigotry don't need explaining. They simply are, like traffic jams and taxes.

Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right.

The dead weren't scary. It was the living you had to watch out for.

But I just want a little more time to be angry. My hands still feel jittery from fear and fury but now i'm supposed to manage forgiveness. Or else I'm the monster.

Tâm h?n ?úng là m?t th? bí ?n. Nó v?n thu?c v? ta mà chính b?n thân ta l?i không th? n?m b?t, th?m chí ?ôi lúc th?y s? nó.

For someone who likes to get around as much as I do, I really travel quite badly. Planes frighten me, boats bore me, trains make me dirty, cars make me car-sick. And practically nothing can equal the critical dismay with which I first greet the sight of new places.

While most people are playing it safe and doing everything they can to avoid pain, successful people know that they must face their fears and do what needs to be done regardless of how they feel. They don't necessarily like the hard work, but they're willing to do it because they like the results.

With sensitive children, physical blows or traumas aren't required to make them afraid of the dark.

how will you feel going to your grave without having tried?

the fear that now your "fatal flaw" will reveal itself fully as you fail to make the

If someone caring for you became angry or dangerous, the conscious mind buried that information as too awful to acknowledge

As you saw in chapter 2, in Rotherbart's description of how we develop, adult humans are capable of directing attention, using willpower, and deciding to overcome a fear. If your envy is strong and you decide you want to do something, you probably can.

It is painful to imagine what would have happened if I had been the sort to have shouted at Rob to shut up and get back to bed. He probably would have done just that, feeling abandoned in a dangerous world. But he would not have slept. His intuitive mind would have elaborated on the experience for hours, including probably deciding he was somehow to blame. With sensitive children, physical blows or traumas aren't required to make them afraid of the dark.

adult humans are capable of directing attention, using willpower, and deciding to overcome a fear. If your envy is strong and you decide you want to do something, you probably can.

It can be just as present in adulthood as you see friends taking on careers, travel, moves, and relationships that you would fear. Yet deep inside you also know you have the same or more talent, desire, and potential.

Alas, non-therapy relationships sometimes can't withstand the task of undoing childhood-based insecurity (the avoidance of intimacy or the compulsion to merge and fear of being abandoned).

Once we do notice arousal, we want to name it and know its source in order to recognize danger. And often we think that our arousal is due to fear. We do not realize that our heart may be pounding from the sheer effort of processing extra stimulation.

selfishness, rage. Since you were so eager to please, others could ignore your needs when, in fact, yours were often greater than theirs. This would only fuel your anger. But such feelings may have been so frightening that you buried them. The fear of their breaking out would become yet another source of "unreasonable" fears and nightmares.

However, how will you feel going to your grave without having tried?

shy, weak, or that greatest sin of all, unsociable. Fearing these labels, we try to be like others. But that leads to our becoming overaroused and distressed.