Anton Chekhov Quotes

All of my pleasures are guilty, but that's just the way I'm wired.

I can't handle rollercoasters. I have no control of it. It gets to me.

Fear makes you do stupid things.

I'm sure the feeling of fear, as long as you can take advantage of it and not be rendered useless by it, can make you extend yourself beyond what you would regard as your capacity. If you're afraid, the blood seems to flow freely through the veins, and you really do feel a sense of stimulation.

I am pretty scare-able. I guess that is why I like doing horror because my imagination can take me places.

I secretly want to skydive, even though it's my greatest fear!

You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.

I've always been, like a lot of people, driven by fear. Always focusing on the fire on the rope, as opposed to what the rope is coming from.

I was kind of wild. I enjoyed myself as a young man. I was moving 100 miles per hour - on and off the field.

I'll give up smoking when I die, and I'll settle down when I die. Until then, I'm gonna have a good time.

I joke, but I'm sort of serious: I've always wanted to get into a fight. I know that sounds horrible, but I always had the desire to see what it's like.

There's something so universal about that sensation, the way running unites our two most primal impulses: fear and pleasure. We run when we're scared, we run when we're ecstatic, we run away from our problems and run around for a good time.

I confess my own leisure to be spent entirely in search of adventure, without regard to prudence, profit, self improvement, learning, or any other serious thing.

I'm not happy unless I've got a little bit of fear going.

I get it," said Link. "Even if it wrecks everything, even if you know you're gonna get busted, sometimes you gotta do it anyway." "Something like that.

Fear loves the idea of danger.

For the satiated, both sex and speed are pretty boring until the element of danger and even death is introduced.

The daimonic is any natural function which has the power to take over the whole person. Sex and eros, anger and rage, and the craving for power are examples. The daimonic can be either creative or destructive and is normally both.

In every mind where there is a strong tendency to fear there is a strong capacity to hate. Those who dwell in fear dwell nest door to hate; and I think it is the cowardice of women which makes them such intense haters.

SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles.

A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

I can be very reactionary. It's a gift and a curse.

The vehemence of emotion, stirred by grief and love within me, was claiming mastery, and struggling for full sway; and asserting a right to predominate: to overcome, to live, rise, and reign at last; yes,--and to speak.

I think I am more of a coward than anybody. It's a very weird feeling. The more I fear violence, the more I'm inclined to depict it in films.

Why haven't we, with all our cunning, experience, resolved this problem of fear completely? Isn't fear the cause of the 'me'?