Fear of Uncertainty Quotes

Dying is easy, it's living that scares me to death.

We work in a business where you feel you always have to say yes because you never know when you will work again. But I found myself questioning that paranoia, which I'd grown up with ever since I started working in the theatre in my late teens.

Living is what scares me. Dying is easy.

I have a fear of letting my mind wander. I'm afraid it might not come back.

Taking a new step. . .is what people fear most.

I don't believe in superstitions. I just do certain things because I'm scared in case something will happen if I don't do them

Marriage is an effort to legalize love. It is out of fear. It is thinking about the future, about the tomorrows. Man always thinks of the past and the future, and because of this constant thinking about past and future, he destroys the present. And the present is the only reality there is. One has to live in the present. The past has to die and has to be allowed to die.

This is the century of fear.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.

I'm afraid to live any place but in expectation. I'm no life-risk.

Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.

Fortune dreads the brave, and is only terrible to the coward.

the average man does not want to be free. he simply wants to be safe.

Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.

It's natural to be afraid of replacing everything you already gained by a dream.

Fear of trying causes paralysis. Trying causes only trembling and sweating.

... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.

The majority of people are not willing to risk what they have built for the opportunity to have something better.

I spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.

No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

I'm a damned sight smarter than Grant; I know more about organization, supply and administration and about everything else than he does; but I'll tell you where he beats me and where he beats the world. He don't care a damn for what the enemy does out of his sight but it scares me like hell.

The thing I’m most afraid of is me. Of not knowing what I’m going to do. Of not knowing what I’m doing right now

Because people are afraid of fear, they give up acre after acre of their own life.