The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.
Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.
Hillary Clinton was asked if she wiped the disc she was using for her email; she said, 'Do you mean with a damp cloth?' This, to me, is frightening.
I have a paralyzing fear of snakes.
I'm still afraid of things, obviously - we're human. But I like that feeling of being afraid.
The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
When we're threatened, it's very easy to appeal to our basic natures.
To expect ... the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never did and perhaps never will happen. Men, who are familiarized to danger, meet it without shrinking; whereas troops unused to service often apprehend danger where no danger is.
Humor is an almost physiological response to fear.
Chimps act the way they feel unless they are afraid of reprisal if they do so. But that doesn't apply to humans.
Normally, we push away the things we're scared of.
She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation.
It made our hair stand up in panic fear.
It's easy for me to say, "Oh yeah, that's the self-saboteur move that most artists pull whenever they're afraid."
If you kill someone, it shows that you are afraid of that person.
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
What we do not know, we often fear. What we do not understand, we fear. And what we fear becomes a threat.
We have a tendency in life to be afraid of our oppressors.
You might not think a hippo could inspire terror. Screaming “Hippo!” doesn’t have the same impact as screaming “Shark!” But I’m telling you—as the Egyptian Queen careened to one side, its paddle wheel lifting completely out of the water, and I saw that monster emerge from the deep, I nearly discovered the hieroglyphs for accident in my pants.
Some people think that I would be afraid of them, but I'm never, ever afraid of an animal. I just get excited, and some that are dangerous, I think, 'Ooh, what's going to happen?' and things like that.
Death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit.
I don't believe in letting fear dictate what you do, but that doesn't mean you don't feel afraid or frightened. I think it's normal and healthy to be afraid in situations.
Nerves are good. They keep you alive.
When I was a kid, I used to love it when one of my friends would jump out from behind a door and try to scare me. I always did the same thing in response.
I suddenly remember something I've been told about fear. That amid a hail of machine gun fire you notice the existence of your skin.
