Fear and Anxiety

If you don’t have confidence, you’ll always find a way not to win.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.

We cannot put off living until we’re ready. Life is fired at us point blank.

We understand why children are afraid of the darkness, but why are men afraid of the light?

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

Believe in yourself. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. You must do that which you think you cannot do.

We should not let our fears hold us back from pursuing our hopes.

Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.

There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

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

Eternity’s a terrible thought. I mean, where’s it all going to end?

There is no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.

The awful shadow of some unseen Power

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

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Boredom is … a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

I have always been scared of you,

Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It creates the failures. It makes others feel as you might when a drowning man holds on to you. You want to save him, but you know he will strangle you with his panic.

Against the threats

The cares that infest the day

Come to the edge.

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