Fear and Anxiety

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

All moanday, tearsday, wailsday, thumpsday, frightday, shatterday till the fear of the Law.

Because I do not hope to turn again

Life is a gamble at terrible odds—if it was a bet, you wouldn’t take it.

Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates for a secret doubt.

What difference does it make if the thing you’re scared of is real or not?

Live your life so that the fear of death can never enter your heart. When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the morning light. Give thanks for your life and strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. And if perchance you see no reason for giving thanks, rest assured the fault is in yourself. Tecumseh Shawnee Chief

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.

But what am I?

 

Never seek to tell thy love Love that never told can be; For the gentle wind does move Silently, invisibly. I told my love, I told my love, I told her all my heart; Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears— Ah, she doth depart. Soon as she was gone from me A traveler came by Silently, invisibly— Oh, was no deny.

I sit in one of the dives On Fifty-second Street Uncertain and afraid As the clever hopes expire Of a low dishonest decade: Waves of anger and fear Circulate over the bright And darkened lands of the earth, Obsessing our private lives; The unmentionable odor of death Offends the September night.

What of October, that ambiguous month, the month of tension, the unendurable month?

‘Freedom from fear’ could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

No matter how hard you fight the darkness, every light casts a shadow, and the closer you get to the light, the darker that shadow becomes.

I know perfectly well the cynic is a coward. He foresees all barrenness so that barrenness can never surprise him.

I hate that dreadful hollow behind the little wood.

 

Our lives, our liberty, and our property are never in greater danger than when Congress is in session.

He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer.

but beginning of Terror we’re still just able to bear, and why we adore it so is because it serenely disdains to destroy us. Each single angel is terrible.

I have always been scared of you, With your Luftwaffe, your gobbledygoo. And your neat mustache And your Aryan eye, bright blue. Panzer-man, panzer-man, O You—

Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?

My mother groaned! my father wept.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.