Quotes About Fear

Senin "kamuoyu" dedi?in ?ey, bütün küçük adam ve küçük kad?nlar?n görü?lerinin toplam?d?r. Her küçük adam ve küçük kad?n?n do?ru ve yanl?? görü?leri vard?r. Yanl?? görü?leri vard?r, çünkü ba?ka küçük adam ve küçük kad?nlar?n yanl?? görü?lerinden korkmaktad?rlar. Bu korku yüzünden do?ru görü?ler dile getirilmez.

Anxiety is fear of one's self.

Monogamy doesn't work unless it rises up from the bones. Because it promises nothing but fear and tension when forced on you. It fills you up with despair where there might be joy. It shoves guilt and paranoia and self-loathing down your throat, if you don't truly want it.

I thought I loved her. But there was fear between us, truly.

I crouch beside her bed and stumble through the only prayer I know: now I lay me down to sleep and pray the Lord my soul to keep. It's a appropriate, I think. And still I feel worthless. I want to comfort her, to chase her fears into the snow. But sympathy is buried in me, like a stone in the belly of a goat. And the goat is the rare animal that will eat garbage. I hold her hand until she falls asleep, then steal fifty dollars from her purse.

It's been too long since I sat so close to a woman and my first impulse is to move away.

because there is nothing so arousing as fear and submission and the threat of violence.

Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale.

Widespread fears, even if they are unreasonable, should not be ignored by policy makers. Rational or not, fear is painful and debilitating, and policy makers must endeavor to protect the public from fear, not only from real dangers.

The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

Rational or not, fear is painful and debilitating, and policy makers must endeavor to protect the public from fear, not only from real dangers.

Damasio and his colleagues have observed that people who do not display the appropriate emotions before they decide, sometimes because of brain damage, also have an impaired ability to make good decisions. An inability to be guided by a "healthy fear" of bad consequences is a disastrous flaw.

The evidence of priming studies suggests that reminding people of their mortality increases the appeal of authoritarian ideas, which may become reassuring in the context of the terror of death. Other

However, we are not all rational, and some of us may need the security of distorted estimates to avoid paralysis.

You may know that there is really (almost) nothing to worry about, but you cannot help images of disaster from coming to mind.

Gruesome images, endlessly repeated in the media, cause everyone to be on edge. As I know from experience, it is difficult to reason oneself into a state of complete calm.

The danger is increasingly exaggerated as the media compete for attention-grabbing headlines. Scientists and others who try to dampen the increasing fear and revulsion attract little attention, most of it hostile: anyone who claims that the danger is overstated is suspected of association with a "heinous cover-up.

The stories understandably frightened the public, and those fears encouraged more media coverage, the basic mechanism of an availability cascade.

We have inherited from our ancestors a great facility to learn when to be afraid. Indeed, one experience is often sufficient to establish a long term aversion and fear.

Whenever things were frightening, it was a good idea to measure them.

Wann immer einen die Dinge erschreckten, sei es eine gute Idee, sie zu messen.

Ich habe herausgefunden, dass der Mensch bereit ist, Unbill zu erfahren, aber viel Erkenntnis entgeht ihm, weil er den Schmerz fürchtet.

Man kann dem Schrecken gegenübertreten, bis er nachgibt und sich zurückzieht.

Sweat was running down my face. The next turn wasn't too bad, and I noticed an old barn on the roadside, the roof caved-in, the windows empty holes, but I had already been distracted for too long, and the abyss came so close that I cried out. I