William Faulkner Quotes

... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.

It is fear that is the greatest cause of misery in the world.

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.

Fear is the mind-killer.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

Being frightened of things is worse than the things themselves.

The things we fear the most have already happened to us.

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

Anyone who's suffered from panic attacks knows how frightening they are.

The fear's as bad as falling.

Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.

Fear is a friend who's misunderstood

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

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

Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.

Underneath the stress is fear, and the biggest is our own personal fear of failure.

Fear was my main emotion until I started taking anti-depressant medication. And I was one of the people where, as I got older, the fear got worse and worse. So I can really relate to an animal getting, you know, scared and traumatized.

FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION.

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.

For many years we have suckled on fear and fear alone, and there is no good product of fear.

Sometimes I think we're exposed to things we shouldn't be exposed to too early. I think that sets the tone to a person's whole life. Trauma.

You cannot get PTSD from reading a book or from hearing a story, even repeated stories over and over.

It's a universal truth that no parent wishes to acknowledge that the fear and phobias we are in thrall to in adulthood almost invariably connect back to childhood experiences.

Fear has governed my life, if I think about it.