Nathaniel Branden Quotes

The purpose of fear, clearly, is to help you get away - which it does. If your heart rate increases, there is more blood pumping so you can use that blood to fuel your muscles to run away. Oxygen is sent to the lungs so you can run fast. Pupils dilating help you see in the dark. All of that prepares your body to fight or escape.

As a human, if you're in a scary situation, you pretty much forget about everything else! You just try and survive.

The only thing that can combat fear is action. And there's two actions. There's fight and flight.

Where there is fear there is aggression.

I can't run away when I'm scared. I always have to attack. That's how I deal with seemingly difficult things.

Once we start believing that the apocalypse is coming, the amygdala goes on high alert, filtering out most anything that says otherwise.

I'm not a type-B personality who knows I have a cancer growing inside of me and can live with the knowledge. I go into a kung-fu attack position when I go through the door of a hospital.

Every time I go to Washington, I break out in a cold sweat. So I try not to spend too much time there.

I feel a buzzing at the base of my neck. It's like I'm on eternal 'vibrate' in case of an emergency.

I cannot do confrontation. You know that fight or flight thing? I'm flight. I just don't want the argument.

When I'm scared, my natural state is to hide and run for cover.

Fear brings out the best in some people and the worst in others. It's a test of character, for individuals and nations.

Frightened is the natural state for all men.

I really think truth comes from the body. When you're running for your life, you breathe differently; you talk differently.

When threatened, the nervous system sometimes goes into a 'freeze response.' You assess the risk and determine that fight or flight doesn't help you. Staying put does.

When I get nervous, my voice gets very high.

I don’t wanna die, man. They’re not playing. Have you seen how many of them are out there? One just took a shot at me, so unlike you morons, I’m hiding. Hiding is nice. (Vik)

What an incredible drug fear is.

I feel my sinews slackened with the fright, and a cold sweat trills down all over my limbs, as if I were dissolving into water.

Fight, flight, and screw up royaly.

Is it useful to feel fear, because it prepares you for nasty events, or is it useless, because nasty events will occur whether you are frightened or not?

Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving.

I had really good hearing and when you're scared it gets heightened so you hear scratching noises or something.

Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly.

How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.