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Fearful Quotes (page 83)

Everything that motivates living creatures is based onsome weakness or flaw. Hunger motivates animals. Lustmotivates animals. Fear and pain motivate animals. A Godwould have none of those impulses. Humans are driven byall of our animal passions plus loftier-sounding things likeself-actualization and creativity and freedom and love Scott Adams
When the talk about my troubles was loudest, I did the thing I've always spoken of most . I got still and listened for the answer to What is this here to teach me? The answer, first and foremost? Lay your ego down. Step out of your ego so you can recognize the truth. As soon as I did that, I was able to see the role I had played in creating "my circumstances," without blaming other people. And -- bingo! -- I realized that all the noise about my struggle was a reflection of my personal angst... Oprah Winfrey
[His] past had now risen, only the pleasures of it seeming to have lost their quality. Night and day, without interruption save of brief sleep which only wove retrospect and fear into a fantastic present, he felt the scenes of his earlier life coming between him and everything else, as obstinately as when we look through the window from a lighted room, the objects we turn our backs on are still before us, instead of the grass and the trees. The successive events inward and outward were there... George Eliot
Dan Brown quote: "open your mind my friends, we fear what we do not understand."
open your mind my friends, we fear what we do not understand. Dan Brown
I don't like anything that scares me, and I prefer to face it head on and get over it. Anyone who says they're not scared is a fool, a liar or both. I just don't want that fear in my stomach to be part of my life, so I work to eliminate it. Anderson Cooper
Anthony Hopkins quote: "Today is the tomorrow we feared yesterday."
Today is the tomorrow we feared yesterday. Anthony Hopkins
Allen Ginsberg quote: "now the Great Fear's rolled round the world and washes over..."
now the Great Fear's rolled round the world and washes over Newspaper Grey air Allen Ginsberg
Plato quote: "[T]hose who practice philosophy in the right way are in..."
[T]hose who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men. Plato
Men grant and withdraw their love according to their whims, but fear is a hand that rests on their shoulders in a way they can never shake. Thomas Friedman
Weapons are kept from women, but such a naming suggests that perhaps men fear our talents in war as well as our desire for peace. Alice Hoffman
Jack Kerouac quote: "The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the..."
The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel. Jack Kerouac
But I've grown thoughtful now. And you have lost Your early-morning freshness of surprise At being so utterly mine: you've learned to fear The gloomy, stricken places in my soul, And the occasional ghosts that haunt my gaze. Siegfried Sassoon
... we are so full of apprehensions, fears, that we don't know exactly to what it points... a great change of our psychoglocal attitude is imminent, that is certain...because we need more understanding of human nature because ...the only real danger that exists is man himself... and we know nothing of man - his psyche should be studied because we are the origin of all coming evil... Carl Jung
Necessity, they say, is the mother of invention, but fear too, is not barren of ingenious suggestions."Nice little saloon, isn't it" I said, as if noticing it for the first time."At noon I gave no orders for change of course, and the mates whiskers grew much concerned and seemed to be offering themselves to my unduly notice. Joseph Conrad
David Foster Wallace quote: "Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes..."
Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke. This can be tricky. David Foster Wallace

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