Peter Straub Quotes

That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.

Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with.

I'm generally known as a happy person, but years ago, I suffered from panic and anxiety. I've learned to manage the fear and pain.

"They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave."

Fear is a hard thing to deal with. I feel it quite strongly. If I think something is important enough, I'll make myself do it in spite of fear. But it can really sap the will. I hate fear, I wish I had it less.

I'm starting to understand that fear is like cancer - you can beat it back, but if it returns, it can be worse than ever.

She walked fast, to keep ahead of her fear.

Fear can infect us early in life until eventually it cuts a deep groove of apprehension in all our thinking. To counteract it, let faith, hope and courage enter your thinking. Fear is strong, but faith is stronger yet.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

Fear is natural. Be with it.

'House of Leaves' is certainly about the unsettling nature of fear - and it was my aim to address that - but it's also about recovering from fear.

A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterward.

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world.

You should have a fear of some things. That doesn't mean it incapacitates you from your ability to figure out a way to deal with it.

In all the difficult decisions that I made through the course of running Loudcloud and Opsware, I never once felt brave. In fact, I often felt scared to death. I never lost those feelings, but after much practice, I learned to ignore them. That learning process might also be called the courage development process.

Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship; or taking the new job; or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.

I don't believe in letting fear dictate what you do, but that doesn't mean you don't feel afraid or frightened. I think it's normal and healthy to be afraid in situations.

I am not brave. I am very weak. I am trying to overcome my problems. I do cry, I do break but I think that's normal.

I don't operate on fear, and I don't let fear control me.

Fear mustn't take control of us.

So I don't really suffer too badly from fears - I'm quite happy to engender them in other people though!

Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.

Anxiety is loves greatest killer.