Fear Vs Reality Quotes

The threat is usually more terrifying than the thing itself.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't.

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. But you can't tell the difference when you have no real information. Fear can create even more imaginary obstacles than ignorance can. That's why the smallest step away from speculation and into reality can be an amazing relief...The Reality Solution means: Do it before you're ready.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

Although fear in the right dosage and under the right circumstance protects us ... imaginary fear offers straitjackets instead of lifejackets, nooses instead of safety nets.

It is worse to apprehend than to suffer.

No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils.

What you are afraid of is never as bad as what you imagine. The fear you let build up in your mind is worse than the situation that actually exists.

I mean you look back at American history and American culture, it's pretty striking. I mean this has been the safest country in the world forever, and the most frightened country in the world.

For all things are less dreadful than they seem.

The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears.

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

There is a huge difference between a dog that is going to eat you in your mind and an actual dog that's going to eat you.