Cyril Connolly Quotes

I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.

Most of the things I do are inspired by things that frightened me when I was young.

I suppose fear is like a drug. A little bit isn't that bad, but you can get addicted to the consumption and distribution of it.

There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear.

I think that fear comes about when there's things in the world that we want to change, things we're scared or angry about, and we can't change them, and so we become fearful; we develop anxiety.

People react to fear, not love; they don't teach that in Sunday School, but it's true.

People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.

I feel like the majority of the fear that I had or that we have we hold from other people. They're like people that we trust; they're their fears. All of a sudden we think that they're our fears.

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

The way you conquer fear is to feel it all the way, and then you'll find out that there's nothing there - it's just emotion.

The most common reason we stumble into the delusion of powerlessness is that we're afraid of what other people would do or say or feel if we were to act as we wanted.

That's part of your life lesson to be afraid. The bigger question is how you deal with being afraid. Do you have to summon courage or something else to live with that fear without letting it take you over?

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

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego's fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

Our thinking and our behaviour are always in anticipation of a response. It is therefore fear-based.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.

For me, personally, when I'm afraid of something - when you're afraid of something, normally you try to go away, you try to avoid it. Instead of avoiding it, to overcome your fear, I believe you need to embrace it.

Show business is, essentially, a fear-based industry.

I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.

Somewhere after you have few successful films, there is a fear of losing what you have got. It is very easy in the beginning, as you are a risk taker, have nothing to lose, and there is no perception about you.

People are afraid of failure - they don't like to work so hard and have people keep saying, 'No.' I think that's what people fear most.

The truth is that I'm more afraid of marriage than of death.