Luc de Clapiers Quotes

As a rule, men worry more about what they can't see than about what they can.

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

I felt vulnerable and very much between friends. I remember walking down the hallway and thinking I had no way of knowing what was coming, literally. This wasn't because I had some horrific bullying story, but because of a steady drip of negativity.

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

It's hard to care deeply for something that might turn on you and eat you.

The way to feel safe is never to feel secure.

We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear: fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself because it is fear, which drives men to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously.

The world's my oyster. But it worries me, all this showing off about being happy. Life is so precarious, and I know terrible things can happen. At the moment, everything is happy.

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.

It's inevitable that you feel scared when you don't have control of a situation.

Life is a very scary thing because it's unknown. Anything can happen anytime, and that is terrifying for all of us: to not to be in control.

no hour arrives so soon as the one we dread.

They lose the day in expectation of the night, and the night in fear of the dawn.

I think that fear comes about when there's things in the world that we want to change, things we're scared or angry about, and we can't change them, and so we become fearful; we develop anxiety.

I think you're not a human being unless you have doubts and fears.

Vulnerability is basically uncertainty, risk, and emotional exposure.

We spend our time searching for security and hate it when we get it.

People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised.

Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don't know the plot. They don't know their own individual plot... they don't know what's going to happen to them.

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

I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability - the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.

I always feel scared and insecure on a film set. I don't know any other way.

We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.

There's so much to be afraid of.

In Afghanistan, life is so fragile; who knows what the next week will bring? That fragility really affects the way you're able to report, and the kind of stories people will tell you.