Ugo Betti Quotes

Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.

I think that fear comes about when there's things in the world that we want to change, things we're scared or angry about, and we can't change them, and so we become fearful; we develop anxiety.

At the heart of any terror is the fear of losing what we find meaningful.

There is a fascination with fear. It grabs our attention.

Bad news sells because the amygdala is always looking for something to fear.

What scares me? Oh, now that's a big question. I don't know what scares me - cockroaches, nuclear apocalypse. Fear is an interesting thing. It has a place in all of our lives. I try to be as fearless as possible. I don't always succeed, but I like to think I try.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

Monsters just outside our peripheral vision are scarier to contemplate than monsters miles away or in someplace only a fool would set foot in.

We hope vaguely, we dread precisely; our fears are infinitely more precise than our hopes

For me, what usually makes a horror sequence scary is the journey not the destination.

There's always doubt and fear. If you're a human being, everybody's got it.

People are scared of the unknown.

I feel like fear is a very real thing, a very ubiquitous thing, and it can be very subtle.

Fear comes from your past observations. That fear settles inside you. It becomes your psyche. Something triggers it and it fuels that subconscious. There is no logic to it.

I'm driven by fear.

You'll learn that the most worthwhile exercises are preceded by this very human phenomenon, fear. Marriage, parenthood, relationships.

Fear is sort of like jealousy. It's an unnecessary emotion.

We fear something before we hate.

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

What is stronger, fear or hope?

I did a lot of research on a couple different things. One was, how do people handle hating themselves and hating others? And hatred is a secondary emotion, I think; it always springs from something else ... usually fear, that's probably what it is. So I looked a lot at that.

All humans have fear, and those of us who are fortunate have faith.

Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.