Fear Quotes - Page 50

Do not let fear confine your life Inside a shell of doubt; A turtle never moves until His head is sticking out.

Writing is something that you don't know how to do. You sit down and it's something that happens, or it may not happen. So, how can you teach anybody how to write? It's beyond me, because you yourself don't even know if you're going to be able to. I'm always worried, well, you know, every time I go upstairs with my wine bottle. Sometimes I'll sit at that typewriter for fifteen minutes, you know. I don't go up there to write. The typewriter's up there. If it doesn't start moving, I say, well this could be the night that I hit the dust.

Belief compelled through fear is not belief, it is blind and forced obedience.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me.

And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don't know me yet.

Only the self-deceived will claim perfect freedom from fear.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Any irrational fears?no, i'm quite a rationalist. i'm not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.

If I ever felt inclined to be timid as I was going into a room hill of people, I would say to myself, "You're the cleverest member of one of the cleverest families in the cleverest class of the cleverest nation in the world-why should you be frightened?

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long.

We need writers who fear nothing. ("Our Goal")

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Any system of religion that has anything in it that shocks the mind of a child, cannot be true.

There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Fear comes with imagination, it’s a penalty, it’s the price of imagination.

God's precepts are light to the loving, heavy to the fearful.

God does not think; he creates. He does not exist; he is eternal.

Nervous means you want to play. Scared means you don't want to play.

If you wish to fear nothing, consider that everything is to be feared.

To criticise a person for their race is a manifestly irrational and ridiculous. But to criticise their religion - that is a right. That is a freedom.

Your limits are liars, you fears are thieves.

Do research. Feed your talent. Research not only wins the war on cliche, it's the key to victory over fear and it's cousin, depression.

When the lab rats hear the bell ringing, they freeze. That's what fear does to you - fear stops you dead in your tracks. Fear can keep you from harm, but fear can also rob you of your potential. Fear can rob you of an experience. Fear can rob you of happiness. Fear can rob you of real life... Darkness has a way of scaring us.