Ernest Thompson Seton Quotes

People die of fright and live of confidence.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Is it worse to be scared than to be bored, that is the question.

Fears and lies intensify consciousness.

Neither comprehension nor learning can take place in an atmosphere of anxiety.

I think everybody has had emotional distress, but yes, I think I'm pretty stable.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.

I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.

The abandoned infant's cry is rage, not fear.

Most men, I think, wonder about their courage. How would they act in combat? Under torture?

Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods, if you would keep your spirits up. Deal with brute nature. Be cold and hungry and weary.

Fear and Guilt are the only enemies of man.

No one is ever hurt. Hurt is in the mind.

Fear is the workout we give ourselves imagining what will happen if things don't work out. . . . Worry is our effort to imagine every possible way to avoid the outcome that is causing us fear, and failing that, to survive the thing that we fear if it comes to fruition.

A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.

Panic was the worst thing. When you panicked, you couldn't see possibilities. Then came despair.

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.

Farid had brought an invisible guest with him. Fear.

I remember being in intensive care, looking at the clock and thinking 'don't go to sleep, don't go to sleep'. I can laugh about it now but I was petrified.

He was just hungry, Papa. He's going to die. He's going to die anyway. He's so scared, Papa. The man squatted and looked at him. I'm scared, he said. Do you understand? I'm scared. The boy didn't answer. He just sat there with his head down, sobbing. You're not the one who has to worry about everything. The boy said something but he couldn't understand him. What? He said. He looked up, his wet and grimy face. Yes I am, he said. I am the one.

Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.

It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one’s own body... On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues that you are fighting for are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralysed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth.

Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.

FEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'.

Think if you want to stay alive. Fear will kill you if you don't control it.