Stefan Zweig Quotes

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.

If the next car passed is blue, Violet will be okay, she thought. If it's red, A will do something horrible to her. She heard a growl of an engine and shut her eyes, afraid to see what the future might hold. She'd never cared so much about anything in her life. Just as the car was passing, she opened her eyes and saw a Mercedes hood ornament. She let out a long sigh, tears coming to her eyes once more. The car was blue.

A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.

Isn't it fascinating how long a few minutes seem when you are completely alone with not a familiar face in sight?

Fear is often our immediate response to uncertainty. There's nothing wrong with experiencing fear. They key is not to get stuck in it.

It's tough sometimes for groups of people and animals to let go of that fear that can so easily bubble back up to the surface.

[I had a sense of interior panic].Always. I didn't really know what to call it for a long time, but I have a friend in Greece who used that word panic a lot, and I found myself resisting it, until I totally accepted that as a precise description of my interior condition. It was mostly panic from one moment to the next. And nothing much else was going on.

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

Nothing like fear to wash your mind clean.

Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

I'm starting to understand that fear is like cancer - you can beat it back, but if it returns, it can be worse than ever.

Ten minutes can be a long time when you're waiting with a beating heart for something you don't understand, something you don't really want to know.

Reality in strong doses frightens.

Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.

And then, when he’s been underwater so long I feel certain he’s drowned, his head pops up right next to me and I start. “Don’t do that,” I say. “What? Come up or stay under?” he says. “Either. Neither. Whatever

Sometimes I feel like there is so much to be afraid of, and sometimes I feel like there is nothing left to fear.

Another of the hard things about being in a war, grandchildren, is that although there are times of quiet when the fighting has stopped, you know you will soon be fighting again. Those quiet times give you the chance to think about what has happened. Some of it you would rather not think about, as you remember the pain and the sorrow. You also have time to worry about what will happen when you go into battle again.

The fear that things may change tomorrow... Somebody may die, you may go bankrupt, your job may be taken away. There are a thousand and one things which may change. You are burdened with fears and fears, and none of them are valid - because yesterday also you were full of all these fears, unnecessarily. Things may have changed, but you are still alive. And man has an immense capacity to adjust himself in any situation.

If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.

I'm tired of being scared, and I know you are too. Not that there isn't alot to be scared of in this world today, between the non-stop headlines about wars and nuclear power plants and terrorists and assasinations and civil unrest and economic uncertainty and political doublespeak and insane weather and an environment that's becoming unhealthier by the day. But a point comes when it's too much to deal with, and thinking about it accomplishes nothing more than sending you to bed with a cold cloth on your head.

Fear is good, for it makes us cautious and aids survival. Not so with terror. It is like slow poison, paralyzing the limbs and blurring the mind. . . Never, when in danger, ask yourself, What will they do to me? Instead think, What can I do to prevent them?

Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power

I couldn't tell if I was perspicacious or paranoid.

Suspense left my life a long time ago, now it has returned. I do not care for it.