J. R. R. Tolkien Quotes

We are only troubled by the fears which we, and not nature, give ourselves, for they add to the state in which we are the passions of the state in which we are not.

There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear.

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents

How much more suffering is caused by the thought of death than by death itself.

True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had haunted my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Of all the sense of hearing acute.

Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

I don't know if you have ever been the object of someone's obsession - but if it's not of your desire, it is horrible. It is really awful.

When someone follows you all the way to the shop and watches you buy toilet roll, you know your life has changed.

I wake up every morning in a cold sweat, regardless of how well things went the day before. And put that I said that in a somewhat but not completely tongue-in-cheek way.

The emotions in all true anxiety dreams are next to unbearable.

I'm very emotional; I think I may go mad in several years' time.

Someone told me a woman bought a dog so she could take it to the same park where I go running, but I'm hoping that's rubbish.

The root of the problem I have is anxiety, and it's all derived from something - I'm just going to say it, some kind of sadness. It manifests in so many different ways and it affects people differently.

... madness entered my veins.

Whenever I go back to London, I have this horrible feeling that something bad will happen, and I won't be able to get back to America. It's a nightmare feeling.

The worm of paranoia begins to eat into even the hardest adversary.

Stalking is a crime that can paralyze an otherwise productive person with fear.

True horror, I think, deals with dread and menace and gets under your skin.

Bullying made me feel insecure, alone, ugly, powerless, and hopeless at times.

People were following me home in cars, singing outside my window at my flat. I couldn't go to pubs or supermarkets or walk down the street. It was bizarre, but that was my life.

I was going out with a few girls and we were in a local. A girl started shouting 'Gogglebox' at me and became really intimidating. I left but I lay awake crying, wondering if the girl knew where I lived.

I'm even a little afraid of the dark. If I'm alone in the dark I'll sometimes feel that there's a presence behind me and I'll even be afraid to turn around, but then if I do get the courage to turn around, I'll just be scared that whatever was there has just jumped over to the other side of me.

Every time I leave the house or we go anywhere, there is a paranoia. We always have to watch for specific cars and specific signs that we're being photographed.