Lawrence Block Quotes

Remember that the enemy is just as frightened as you are and probably more so. They are not supermen

I'm very sensitive and I'm quite a soft person, and I cry a lot when things upset me.

Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere - and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity and weakness and fear and anxiety because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are.

Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.

The human mind is never better disposed to gratitude and attachment than when softened by fear.

I have never met an aggressive person who wasn’t a fearful person.

Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.

I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability.

I'm very sensitive in real life. I cannot not cry if someone around me is crying. I will start to cry if someone is crying, even if it's not appropriate. I have that thing in me, a weakness or sensitivity.

A lot of interviewers are looking for the dark side. They want to know about the depths of your despair and fear.

I get a little scared sometimes. A lot of things scare me.

I have my share of insecurities, hopes and fears.

When anything bad happens, my insecurities come flooding out.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

I mean you pull the curtain away, and you see I'm just as insecure and neurotic and scared and vulnerable as anybody, you know.

They hate whom they fear.

I'm really, really emotional.

I want to investigate what scares me and worries me.

That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.

I don't think you're human if you don't get nervous.

Today fear, the most corroding of influences, is the moving cause ...

You can't 'work through worry and fear rationally,' because fear isn't rational!

The premise for me has always been that it's vulnerable people who do violent things. And the more vulnerable they feel, often, the more violent they are. But I think, you know, that's an idea that comes from history, from classical theater, for me.

I get really frightened easily.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.