fear of facing reality Quotes

As a rule, people are afraid of truth. Each truth we discover in nature or social life, destroys the crutches on which we need to lean.

The most baleful mischiefs may be expected from the unmanly conduct of not daring to face truth because it is unpleasing.

We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain we, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive. (43)

I'm not brave enough to be a coward; I see the consequences too clearly.

I’m so afraid that all I can reach will lead me to all I dare not see.

FEAR IS A REACTION YOU HAVE WHEN YOU’RE GETTING CLOSER TO THE TRUTH

I had been having trouble with my eyes. One day my glasses fogged up while I was pitching, but when I cleaned them and looked at the plate and saw Foxx clearly, it frightened me so much I never wore them again.

For me, what Macbeth is about is people who cannot face their fears and pain and instead of facing them and going beyond, they just run away and they try to cover this with power and violence, but it doesn't work.

All I can do is stand still- I feel like if I just stand still, I can stop it from being true, I can pretend that everything is all right.

The reason men don't know the law of life is because they're afraid to look Eternity in the face.

Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned.

The truth I do not dare to know I muffle with a jest.