John Dryden Quotes

True enough, nature has endowed me with a fair measure of patience and composure, yet I should be lying if I told you that, having seen the reporter off on his way to make his deadline, I fell peacefully asleep.

I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.

Keep a meter on your fear. Fear can cripple you.

Let’s talk, you and I. Let’s talk about fear. The house is empty as I write this; a cold February rain is falling outside. It’s night. Sometimes when the wind blows the way it’s blowing now, we lose the power. But for now it’s on, and so let’s talk very honestly about fear. Let’s talk very rationally about moving to the rim of madnessand... and perhaps over the edge.

There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness.

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. it does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us unfit to face evil when it comes. it is the interest you pay on trouble before it comes.

The fear habit is very detrimental because you attract the things you fear. If we have any fear we need to get rid of it.

Sometimes I feel like there is so much to be afraid of, and sometimes I feel like there is nothing left to fear.

There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear.

Once fear enters your life - it will take you in one of two directions: empowerment or panic.

Rose: You're trembling. Jack: I'll be alright.

A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.

At the beauty of what she had stumbled onto, at the fear that something terrible would happen because she was not vigilant enough. She cried at the fear of something so good that she would not be brave enough to bear it.

Humans are mentally sick with a disease called fear.

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

I tend to scare myself.

If you let fear take hold, if you let it own you, your life ceases to be your own.

It is what we fear that happens to us.

The things I fear may all be imaginary, so what I fear most is my imagination.

Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I'm too afraid to and have to eat it anyway.

Fear can be one of the most destructive emotions. It is, of course, also very important, in that fear sometimes stops you from doing stupid things. But it can also stop you from doing creative or exciting or experimental things. It can cloud your judgement of others, and lead to all kinds of evil. The control and understanding of our personal fears is one of the most important undertakings of our lives.

I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete - that's what scares me.

Yesterday he told me he thought I would have to pretend to be weak, but he was wrong. I am weak already. I brace myself against the wall and press my forehead to my hands. It’s difficult to take deep breaths, so I take short, shallow ones. I can’t let this happen. They attacked me to make me feel weak. I can pretend they succeeded to protect myself, but I can’t let it become true.

One is a great deal less anxious if one feels perfectly free to be anxious, and the same may be said of guilt.

People die of fright and live of confidence.