Leonora Carrington Quotes

Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it.

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

Oh, I'm full of fear. I care about things; therefore, I have fears. I like to think that I'm brave, which is different. Brave means you're able to admit that you care. If you care, you are vulnerable.

There's always doubt and fear. If you're a human being, everybody's got it.

We all have fears! Don't lie! We all have fears.

I think to be courageous, you have to be afraid. For me, it feels very courageous when I go skiing because I'm very, very afraid to ski. It's dangerous! I feel very scared. But when I'm acting, I don't feel very scared.

People say to me all the time, 'You have no fear.' I tell them, 'No, that's not true. I'm scared all the time. You have to have fear in order to have courage. I'm a courageous person because I'm a scared person.'

Fear paralyses you - fear of flying, fear of the future, fear of leaving a rubbish marriage, fear of public speaking, or whatever it is.

If you worried about falling off the bike, you'd never get on.

I'm not scared of anything in particular, but I am motivated by a fear of failure as opposed to a need to succeed.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

When you're fearful, you stumble.

I realized that I was afraid to really, really try something, 100%, because I had never reached true failure.

I knew I wasn't a baseball writer. I was scared to death. I really was afraid to talk to players, and I didn't want to go into the press box because I thought I was faking it.

When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.

Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

We feel a lot of pressure about looking silly or appearing weak, whatever that means, or being a failure. You have to keep in your head: what's the worst that can happen?

I honestly think I'm the kind of person that is driven by fear of failure rather than striving for success. I tend to go to bed scared and wake up terrified.

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Fear is the culprit that robs us of our greatest lives. And although it's mostly made up or a learned behavior from our past, almost everybody I've ever met in my life struggles with fear.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

To back away from fear is the worst thing you can do. Fear shows.