Philip Sidney Quotes

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

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.

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

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

The worst sorrows in life are not in its losses and misfortunes, but its fears.

In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear?

I didn’t know it would be like this,” he says in a whisper. And then: “I’m scared.

Isn't the fear of pain next brother to pain itself?

It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.

Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he’d said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself.

It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul.

The depressed person was in terrible and unceasing pain, and the impossibility of sharing or articulating this pain was itself a component of the pain and a contributing factor in its essential horror.

Fear / a motor, / pumps me around and around / until I fade slowly.

Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong... But it might.

Somehow the anticipation of pain can be even more troubling, more a misery than the pain itself.

I just never really thought there could be something worse than death.

Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

God, I am afraid he won't give me his answer today. If only somebody would help me - it is all so terribly depressing.

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

I would wake up in Moscow or somewhere else, my heart beating fast, feeling bitter and helpless.

Now is the age of anxiety.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

I shudder when relating it.