Fearful Situations Quotes

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

Whenever you avoid alarming situations, you almost always increase your anxiety about them.

And when you're alone there's a very good chance you'll meet things that scare you right out of your pants There are some, down the road between hither and yon, that can scare you so much you won't want to go on.

A lot of people live in fear because they haven't figured out how you're going to react when faced with a certain set of circumstances. I've come to terms with this by looking deeply into whatever makes me fearful - what are the key elements that get the hairs up on the back of my neck - and then figuring out what I can do about it.

What makes a nightmare nightmarish is the sense that something is happening that should not be. While nightmares are the most convenient reference point for this sense of the impossible, the unthinkable, as something that is actually happening, it is not restricted to our sleeping hours.

It is scary, sometimes, Tomas admitted. But the scary bits are what make you brave.

There's not too many things I'm afraid of, but I'm not too brave when it comes to sitting in a chair getting my teeth drilled.

Learning how to think in the midst of fear is a lesson that everyone needs to learn.

The best way to confront your fears it to stop avoiding the situation you're most afraid of.

To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.

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

I have had a life in which I have had to face every big fear, and it has not been pleasant.

Nobody is born without fear. We are all born into this world screaming and crying, a bloody mess. We're afraid of failing. What differentiates people is that some of them tend to deal more with fearful situations and understand that it's hurting them in life. That by becoming fearful they're maiming themselves and they learn to move past these fears.

Do the scary thing first, and get scared later.

I'll play a happy character, but most characters are driven by a pain or a fear. They are driven by something deep down, and most people are like that in the sense. And so, that's what interests me.

Establish character - otherwise, it is difficult to connect with what is frightening.

I didn't for a moment doubt the choice, but if life is ever fearsome, it is truly fearsome then.

I'm afraid of those cows,' protested poor Dora, seeing a prospect of escape. 'The very idea of your being scared of those cows,' scoffed Davy. 'Why, they're both younger than you.

So many things have happened to me in my life that I could be phobic about.

When tempted, the shortest and surest way is to act like a little child at the breast; when we show it a frightful monster, it shrinks back and buries its face in its mother's bosom, that it may no longer behold it.

When I am scared of something, I run towards it, instead of away from it.

Balconies scare me, and I would never do a shoot on one. I am afraid of heights.

He who runs away from a fearful calamity, a foreign invasion, a terrible famine, and the companionship of wicked men is safe.