Fear Quotes - Page 83

It is tormenting to fear what you cannot overcome.

The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.

I am the One, and I see all. But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all human beings, even those with functioning eyes. They are blind to their folly, to their ignorance, to their history, to the future that they will make for themselves. A future born of self-loathing.

That was how it was, sometimes. You put yourself in front of the thing and waited for whatever was going to happen and that was all. It scared you and it didn't matter. You stood and faced it. There was no outwitting anything. When Almondine had been playful, she had been playful in the face of that knowledge, as defiant as before the rabid thing. Sometimes you looked the thing in the eye and it turned away. Sometimes it didn't.

When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish

Persecutors are almost always former Victims.

Persecutors, like Victims, act out of fear. The may seem fearless, but actually Persecutors are almost always former Victims.

I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.

The gunshot holds no fear!

I think fear neutralizes alcohol, weakens its anesthetic power. It's good for small fears; your boss, your wife, your bills, your dentist; all right then to take a drink. But for big ones it doesn't do any good. Like water on blazing gasoline, it will only quicken and compound it. It takes sand, in the literal and the slang sense, to smother the bonfire that is fear. And if you're out of sand, then you must burn up.

It's just some instinct as old as fear: you seek the dark when you hide, you seek the light when the need to hide is gone. All the animals have it too.

The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.

When you teach them-teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what you know is right.

Enthusiasm is the inspiration of everything great. Without it no man is to be feared, and with it none despised.

What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.

Hope and fear cannot alter the seasons

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves.

No child is ever born afraid. Fear is a learned behavior.

I don't agree with everything Madonna's done but she is fearless.

Whenever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fear and many run away. . . The risk of inner experience, the adventure of the spirit, is in any case alien to most human beings. The possibility that such experience might have psychic reality is anathema to them.

There are people who are so cautious that they are careful not to waste their fear.

When you're fearless, you take more risks because you're less conscious of failure or what can go wrong.

The greatest fear comes when God is a stranger.

Human life, its growth, its hopes, fears, loves, et cetera, are the result of accidents

Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.