Quotes About Fear

By the time I'm nine I know the world is a dangerous place. I've heard whispers about razorblades in apples, about Charlie Manson and his family. But no one is offering any clear information.

I have a hard time with extreme imagery. Like I can't watch horror movies or anything like that.

Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've finished what I've undertaken.

Look, of course people are scared of entitlement reform because every time you put entitlement reform out there, the other party uses it as a political weapon against you.

I have had a very difficult time with stage fright; it undermines your well-being and peace of mind, and it can also threaten your livelihood.

Every adult in the world has some sense that he or she might be obliterated at any time by these weapons that we have created.

Every time I went on stage I was so terrified I almost threw up.

For me, the problem of time is linked up with that of death, with the thought that we inevitably draw closer and closer to it, with the horror of decay.

A people who's primary aims are driving, shopping, and television are subject to terrorism at any time.

I had a hard time publishing my books in the beginning of my career, because editors were afraid what people would think of THEM, personally, if their name was associated with me

I'm interested in man's march into the unknown but to vomit in space is not my idea of a good time. Neither is a fiery crash with the vomit hovering over me.

Women aren't physically afraid of men; women are genetically afraid of men. It's happened for such a long time.

The future may be an enemy. Time can turn happy days and nights into nothing.

Anything will worry me. I may not get a check for the light bill off in time and I just get to worrying. I'm a worrywart.

Seek opportunity, not security. A boat in the harbor is safe, but in time its bottom will rot out.

It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets are those that are animated by both fear and greed at the same time.

From the moment you are in that cell, when they tell you you're going ot be electrocuted, you contemplate it all the time. It never leaves your mind, and they never let it leave your mind.

If you put a large switch in some cave somewhere, and a sign on it saying, "End-of-the-World Switch. PLEASE TO NOT TOUCH," the paint wouldn't even have time to dry.

Well, I had nightmares when I was doing the Klan story all the time. I had a recurring nightmare of basically being exposed as a Jew inside the Klan compound.

Every time you almost die, I almost die myself.

We're living in a fearful time. Since 9/11 people have become more afraid than before, because of terrorism. There's a lot of confusion about evil, where it's all coming from.

If you're not terrified, you're not going to win. You have to ride right up to the edge of control and not make any mistakes that cost you time.

Being nervous is a waste of time.

When someone isn't seen for a long time, Well, folk soon begin to imagine the worst.