Peter McWilliams Quotes

Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple.

The only difference between 'fear' and 'excitement' is what we label it.

It's amazing how much of a bodily experience being scared is. It doesn't take very long of hyperventilating to feel like you're going to pass out. It's one of those things where being scared is more of a physiological response that you can pretty easily manipulate. So in those types of scenes, it just takes a lot of energy.

I know when things are going to get me a little nervous, because nervous to me feels good.

I tend to be emotional when... I breathe.

Hate is crystallized fear, fear's dividend, fear objectivized. We hate what we fear and so where hate is, fear will be lurking.

I don't feel I'm angry. I feel as though I'm describing something true. If I had stabbed my husband, I could understand being called "angry." If I had an affair with my husband's best friend and written about that experience, I could see the anger. But I'm not doing that.

FEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'.

Rilla's heart skipped a beat — or, if that be a physiological impossibility, she thought it did.

I grant you that frustration is a very mild form of fear, yet it is fear nonetheless.

Anxiety and fear are cousins but not twins. Fear sees a threat. Anxiety imagines one.

You can't be afraid. You can be sad if you like. You can be angry. But it's the fear that'll freeze you in place.

I think fear is a very healthy motivator.

The word "jealousy" is often used as if it were synonymous with envy; but I think the distinction worth preserving. Jealousy is predominantly concerned with the fear of loss of something one possesses, envy with the wish to own something another possesses. Othello suffers from the fear that he has lost Desdemona's love. Iago suffers from envy of the position held by Cassio, to which he feels entitled.

Fear and stress - one creates the other.

Once fear enters your life - it will take you in one of two directions: empowerment or panic.

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

Every act of perception has an emotional coloring.

The face she made at me was probably meant for a smile. Whatever it was, it beat me. I was afraid she'd do it again, so I surrendered

Of all the passions, fear weakens judgment most.

Horror causes men to clench their fists, and in horror men join together.

Fear is the anticipation of the pain in the future. Anger is the remembrance of pain in the past. Hostility is wanting to get even.

And still as an adult like I do as well, you know what I mean like I literally just cried in the first interview that I had today. Like, I'm just a very emotional human.

Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration

His anger was as great as mine, but hot where mine was cold.