Quotes About Fear

when you don't know how to keep a man you lose everything, (…)

Lei riteneva di fare una cosa giusta e necessaria, io ero lì solo perché c'era lei. Saliamo lentamente verso il più grande dei nostri terrori di allora, andavamo a esporci alla paura e a interrogarla. Alla quarta rampa Lila si comportò in modo inatteso. Si fermò ad aspettarmi e quando la raggiunsi mi diede la mano. Questo gesto cambiò tutto tra noi.

Suurin osa äideistä suhtautui kalseasti vapaana juokseviin koiriin. He siirsivät muut ahdistuksenaiheensa eläimiin.

Na druhou stranu jsem v sobÄ› nechtÄ›la nebo nedokázala nechat zakoÃ…â"¢enit nikoho. Za ?as pÃ…â"¢ijdu i o možnost mít dÄ›ti. Žádná lidská bytost se ode mÄ› neodtrhne s dÄ›sem, s nímž jsem se já odtrhla od svojí mámy jen proto, že se mi nikdy nepodaÃ…â"¢ilo se k ní pÃ…â"¢imknout definitivnÄ›.

dull things of every day, she was afraid of the silence of

She was submissive, she gave in immediately out of fear of not being liked, it depressed her that she had given in.

At the time I also considered myself a lowly, abject woman. I was afraid, as I said, that it was precisely my female nature that kept me from bringing the pen as close as possible to the pain I wanted to express. For a woman who has something to say, does it really tkae a miracle — I said to myself — to dissolve the margins within which nature has enclosed her and shower herself in her own words to the world?

I there first felt the impact of time, the force that was pushing me toward forty, the velocity with which life was consumed, the concreteness of the exposure to death: If it's happening to her, I thought, there's no escape, it will happen to me as well.

I felt that in me fear could not put down roots, and even the lava, the fiery stream of melting matter that I imagined inside the earthly globe, and the fear it provoked in me, settled in my mind in orderly sentences, in harmonious images, became a pavement of black stones like the streets of Naples, a pavement where I was always and no matter what the center.

connection between anxiety and ugliness unexpectedly consoled me.

Am meisten fürchten müssen wir uns vor der Raserei verängstigter Menschen.

I thought: yes, Lila is right, the beauty of things is a trick, the sky is the throne of fear; I'm alive, now, here, ten steps from the water, and it is not beautiful, it's terrifying; along with this beach, the sea, the swarm of animal forms, I am part of the universal terror.

Literary genres are safe areas, solid platforms. There I can place a pale sketch of a story and practise with calm, wary pleasure. But really I am waiting for my brain to get distracted, to slip up, for other I's — many — outside the margins to join together, take my hand, begin to pull me with the writing where I'm afraid to go, where it hurts me to go, where, if I go too far, I won't necessarily know how to get back.

Everything in the world was in precarious balance, pure risk, and those who didn't agree to take the risk wasted away in a corner, without getting to know life.

I would always be afraid: afraid of saying the wrong thing, of using an exaggerated tone, of dressing unsuitably, of revealing petty feelings, of not having interesting thoughts.

No se imaginen cosas que no existen, que no van a acabar bien

Reviento lenta y penosamente por el deseo de verte, regresa pronto (…) Me da miedo caer en medio del abismo. Te amo atrozmente, que horroroso aquí sin ti, a pesar de que me dejas sola todo el día...

Sicherheit erzeugt Angst vor dem Unsicheren.

Der Herdeninstinkt schätzt ja überhaupt das Mittlere hoch ein. Er preist es als wertvoll. Sie glauben, sie seien stark, weil sie die Mehrheit bilden. In der mittleren Schicht gibt es keinen Schrecken, keine Furcht. Aneinanderdrängen sie sich um der Illusion von Wärme willen. Mit nichts ist man im Mittleren allein, mit sich selbst schon gar nicht.

Seek and you shall find the repulsive things you secretly hope to find.

Erica tem receio que tudo fique como está e tem receio que algo se possa vir a alterar. Luta violentamente para conseguir respirar, uma espécie de ataque de asma, e depois não sabe que fazer com tanto ar.

Pride works in direct opposition to internalized oppression. The latter provides a fertile ground for shame, denial, self-hatred, and fear. The former encourages anger, strength, and joy. To transform self-hatred into pride is a fundamental act of resistance.

I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.

He who is obsessed by death is made guilty by it.