Asne Seierstad Quotes

Fear is the foundation of safety.

Virtually everything is dangerous if you are afraid.

The personal threat is something that's always been a part of our lives.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

Why should he who is scared be careful?

I believe there is no other difference between those who are called courageous and those who are branded craven than that the second are fearful before the danger and the first after it. No one can be much frightened, certainly, during a period of great and immanent peril -- the mind is too much concentrated on the thing itself, and on the actions necessary to meet or avoid it. The coward is a coward, then, because he has brought his fear with him; persons we think cowardly will sometimes amaze us by their bravery, if they have had no forewarning of their danger.

The pervasive attitude is that it's crazy to invite more danger into your life.

Bella: "Should I be afraid?" Edward: "Terrified."

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

He that's secure is not safe.

I expected to be shot at any moment and if they had done I would have understood, that they couldn't take risks with someone foolhardy or so unpredictable.

I don't like going into the basement. I'm always afraid that something's going to blow up.

The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.

There's two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

Speech and silence. We feel safer with a madman who talks than with one who cannot open his mouth.

It's hard to care deeply for something that might turn on you and eat you.

Considering how dangerous everything is, nothing is really very frightening.

The sense of danger is never, perhaps, so fully apprehended as when the danger has been overcome.

Do not fear what has blown up. If you must, fear the unexploded.

In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

A person's fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.