Samuel Johnson Quotes

Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

Fear is a good thing. Fear is going to lead you to take action.

Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.

Fear and hatred can be the things that drive you. I don't always think of fear as a bad thing, it gives you fight-or-flight.

Fear will keep you alive in a war. Fear will keep you alive in business. There's nothing wrong with fear.

Self-Preservation is a full-time occupation.

[F]ear is a great ally.

This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed. This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.

They look at me and I kind of back up in case they go for my throat.

When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.

Self-defence is Nature's eldest law.

I think to be afraid is very important. It's to save your life, too. And over the years, each of us, and all my colleagues, we developed certain antennas. I can't really say why I don't want to go right or left. It's a feeling, and I trust mostly my feelings.

Fear–fear of war, fear of invasion, fear of plague and famine, that make it simply not worthwhile constructing things, or planting trees, or even planting next year's crops...

In extreme danger, fear feels no pity.

I've never experienced complete terror, knock on wood, or running for my life or any of that.

There is an innate fear that runs within Israeli society of all that we see and hear around us, and you know what? It's a natural reaction of human beings.

I don't want to be going to bed at night thinking that people want to harm us, or my family, because that's when the lioness comes out.

Death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit.

I don’t wanna die, man. They’re not playing. Have you seen how many of them are out there? One just took a shot at me, so unlike you morons, I’m hiding. Hiding is nice. (Vik)

Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.

Life will defend itself no matter how small it is.

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

At the very last moment, Nature would force you to blink your eye. Nature will protect her own.

That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have.