Exaggerated Fears Quotes

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

The real meaning of the word paranoia is--- a man or person who has the ability to link events that seemingly are not connected.

It is this unquiet self-love that renders us so sensitive. The sick man, who sleeps ill, thinks the night long. We exaggerate, from cowardice, all the evils which we encounter; they are great, but our sensibility increases them. The true way to bear them is to yield ourselves up with confidence to God.

I think people are going to return to sanity when they see how ridiculous many of these charges are, and how the predictions are not borne out.

I think that what people imagine they're going through is much worse than what they are going through.

Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.

I'm a paranoid person. And I think - I'm the kind of person that can come up with lots of negative scenarios. But I remembered thinking that seemed like - that was a stretch even for me.

I think people are exaggerating the fears of a Donald Trump presidency because they're coming off a campaign where they're very disappointed.