Sylvia Plath Quotes

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

When you say 'fear of the unknown', that is the definition of fear; fear is the unknown, fear is what you do not know, and it's genetically within us so that we feel safe. We feel scared of the woods because we're not familiar with it, and that keeps you safe.

There’s no conscious thing on the face of the world that doesn’t know dread more intimately than its own heartbeat.

Fear is a survival instinct; fear in its way is a comfort for it means that somewhere hope is alive.

I’ve never once thought about how I was going to die,” she said. “I can’t think about it. I don’t even know how I’m going to live.

This fear bears no analogy to any fear I knew before. This is the basest of all possible emotions, the feeling that was with us before we existed, before this building existed, before the earth existed. This is the fear that made fish crawl out onto dry land and evolve lungs, the fear that teaches us to run, the fear that makes us bury our dead.

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

After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.

I think to be afraid is very important. It's to save your life, too. And over the years, each of us, and all my colleagues, we developed certain antennas. I can't really say why I don't want to go right or left. It's a feeling, and I trust mostly my feelings.

In extreme danger, fear feels no pity.

Fear is a good thing. Fear is going to lead you to take action.

Fear and hatred can be the things that drive you. I don't always think of fear as a bad thing, it gives you fight-or-flight.

Fear, in evolution, has a special prominence: perhaps more than any other emotion it is crucial for survival.

Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

He had no conscious knowledge of death, but like every animal of the Wild, he possessed the instinct of death. To him it stood as the greatest of hurts. It was the very essence of the unknown; it was the sum of the terrors of the unknown, the one culminating and unthinkable catastrophe that could happen to him, about which he knew nothing and about which he feared everything.

Of the mental hazards, being scared is the worst. When you get scared, you get tense.

Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.

That which most concerns and worries you - your survival - is the only certainty you have.

And I'm scared. I'm scared for my life.

She was scared Unprepared Lost in the dark Falling apart I can't survive Without you by my side We're gonna be alright This is what happens when Two worlds collide.

One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed her and did not leave her until the night closed in catastrophe for she had no instinct for self-preservation if she was confronted by ambiguities.

she was just that shiver that makes you walk faster at night. You don't know why you do it, but some part of you remembers that the dark is never really empty. ~Anita

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

A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.