Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

You can't be afraid until you have no other option but to be afraid.

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

When I decided to stay in Iraq, I decided to take the fear out of my body and put it into a freezer.

I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person.

I always tell my children, 'You have to face your fear. If not, it's like running from a dog that will bite you in the back.'

To back away from fear is the worst thing you can do. Fear shows.

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.

"They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave."

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.

My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then you have to forget about being afraid.

Somehow or another, my mother taught me to push through my fear, always. Feel the fear and do it anyway.

We have lived through fear all our lives, and when you have gone through a whole lot of fear, sometimes all you can do is resist the fear, and resistance comes in the form of courage.

The beautiful thing about fear is that when you run to it, it runs away.

Learning how to face fear really makes you invincible because you stop being scared.

If you're afraid of something, you definitely have to try to tackle it.

Surrendering to fear and allowing ourselves to be paralyzed by peril isn't something most of us can afford to do.

Fear doesn't go away but you walk toward fear naked and the gate opens.

All of us experience fear, but when we confront and acknowledge it, we are able to turn it into courage. Being courageous does not mean never being scared; it means acting as you know you must even though you are undeniably afraid.

I always try to push through fear. I won't be crippled by it. People say, "Oh you take such risks", or "You're brave." And I'm like, 'Well, if you knew - inside I'm really frightened!' But the way people navigate fear and pain is fascinating... The more you feel, the stronger the pain. And the more you engage in life, the more you have to lose.

There was something I was always very good at, however, and that was teaching myself not to be frightened while frightening things are going on. It is difficult to do this, but I had learned. It is simply a matter of putting one’s fear aside, like the vegetable on the plate you don’t want to touch until all of your rice and chicken are gone, and getting frightened later, when one is out of danger. Sometimes I imagine I will be frightened for the rest of my life because of all of the fear I put aside during my time in Stain’d-by-the-Sea.

But we both came to the decision that the powerful thing is to go into your fear, walk in there with it, don't walk away from it, and to try to be true to it.

Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.