Jean-Paul Sartre Quotes

No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.

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

If you can't swim, the idea of being in nine feet of water is terrifying, much less the ocean.

The idea of dancing is the only thing that scares me.

When you're working on a lake and it's dark and cold out and you can't see what's underwater, it is freaking scary!

At the heart of any terror is the fear of losing what we find meaningful.

I got this idea about being afraid to let go of something and being afraid of sinking into a state of almost anesthesia, where you have to trust other people. Just the paranoia of it all. And it seemed to suit the frenetic track. So I just wrote it out and, you know, said it.

With such riches as I have in life, you're always nervous. Being Irish, you're waiting for something to knock it sideways.

I don't have control over what's on screen, and that's terrifying.

Running at night used to frighten me. Part of it was simply safety, the question of whether level ground would truly appear under each tentative footstep, and whether the temporary but complete blindness suffered while running toward headlights was, in fact, concealing death.

On stage, I am in the dark.

I'm terrified to go in lakes because you can't see the bottom, and not knowing what's there watching you is really scary to me.

I'm scared of a lot of things.

Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.

A house is kind of scary.

Hemingway has expressed with genius the terrors of the modern man at the danger of losing control of his world

Kissing is kind of scary.

With every film that you do, you're always so nervous. You feel exposed because you know people will see this eventually. You sort of have to put all that out of your head. What will be will be. But it's nerve wracking.

Once you know how completely and suddenly the earth can open up at your feet and the worst can happen, it also, paradoxically, leaves you more afraid of everything else.

Going under the water and staying under the water for periods of time gives me claustrophobia.

I am not a fan of being under water.

I have never bought a swim suit because of my fear for water.

I'm a little bit scared of everything. It's kind of funny. Whenever people ask me how I'm feeling, I'm like, 'I don't know. I'm scared. I'm nervous.'

I'm scared of the water, and I hate the sea. I'd be all right if it was clear and I could see what was underneath. But it's the not knowing what's there that freaks me out.

I'm always surprised to rediscover that there's something kind of scary about life; and that the feeling we have that we're in charge is probably ill founded.