Edna O'Brien Quotes

Fear is something I try not to absorb.

If you do not do the thing you fear, the fear controls your life.

Fear is a friend who's misunderstood

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.

Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I'm too afraid to and have to eat it anyway.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

Fear is such a huge thing that holds us back.

Fear is often our immediate response to uncertainty. There's nothing wrong with experiencing fear. They key is not to get stuck in it.

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.

Fear is the mind-killer.

Now that I knew fear, I also knew it was not permanent. As powerful as it was, its grip on me would loosen. It would pass.

I’m really afraid of spiders and my own feelings.

Because fear kills everything," Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination.

Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.

Because people are afraid of fear, they give up acre after acre of their own life.

To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.

Fear is a sprit that really can stop you from living.

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

I am Constantly afraid, but it's a big driving force in my life. I'm more likely to try and tackle a fear than let it control me.

You can't be afraid. You can be sad if you like. You can be angry. But it's the fear that'll freeze you in place.

Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.

Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.

Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.

I have learned to take the part of me that is very fearful and work on that. There is space for that in my life. I have learned to give myself a bit more freedom between 'action' and 'cut.' I come by all that fear honestly, like most humans have. I can't bring it with me to work, so in that way, the work feels quite liberating.