Fearful Emotions Quotes

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

I don't like rides. I take everything in life quite literally, and so I genuinely feel terrified on rides and liable to vomit at any moment, and I hate to vomit even more than I fear rides. So, all this to say, I don't have a favorite ride. I don't go on rides. Well, that's not true. A few years ago I had a beautiful, romantic moment on the Ferris wheel at Coney Island, known as the Wonder Wheel, and so I guess that's my favorite ride, though even that, to be frank, terrified me.

Bella: "Should I be afraid?" Edward: "Terrified."

Sounds like the blues are composed of feeling, finesse, and fear.

Fear is not an unknown emotion to us.

The mechanism of modern business is so delicate that extreme care must be taken not to interfere with it in a spirit of rashness or ignorance. Many of those who have made it their vocation to denounce the great industrial combinations which are popularly, although with technical inaccuracy, known as "trusts," appeal especially to hatred and fear. These are precisely the two emotions, particularly when combined with ignorance, which unfit men for the exercise of cool and steady judgment..

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

Acting is bloody scary.

My biggest fear is the ocean. It's a great big, powerful sea toilet.

Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them.

Are you afraid, Tessa?

I spent my childhood watching every scary movie that Hollywood ever made. And I think that gave me the best education for storytelling. It also made me want to reproduce the scary moments that I felt, sitting in a theater at the age of 5.

There are times when fear is not our enemy. There are times when fear is our truest, sometimes only, friend.

Where do one's fears come from? Where do they shape themselves? Where do they hide before coming out into the open?

Even in ordinary times there are very few of us who do not see the problems of life as through a glass, darkly; and when the glass is clouded by the murk of furious popular passion, the vision of the best and the bravest is dimmed.

It was a terrifying feeling. And if it was love, he wanted none of it.

If you're frightened, you're out of luck.

Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not.

Are you scared?’ asked Mr. Ibis. ‘Not really.’ ‘Well, try to cultivate the emotions of true awe and spiritual terror, as we walk. They are the appropriate feelings for the situation at hand.

Fear is cruel and mean.

We mostly feel fearful because we feel powerless. We feel powerless, I contend, because of a style of thinking that splits information in two poles that makes us lose all the operative information we need to solve the problem.

Her grief was so big and wild it terrified her, like an evil beast that had erupted from under the floorboards.

They can become very irritated. They can become very aggressive. Not all Alzheimer's patients are that way, but many are. My mother was very difficult. She had extreme mood changes and would become fearful.