Man begins life helpless. The babe is in paroxysms of fear the moment its nurse leaves it alone, and it comes so slowly to any power of self-protection that mothers say the salvation of the life and health of a young child is a perpetual miracle.
Frightened is the natural state for all men.
The delicate sensitivity of a frightened rattlesnake.
FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION.
The combination of fear and ignorance (two sides of the same coin) can be paralyzing.
Fear is the loneliest feeling. You can be in a throng of people, but if you're afraid, you're on your own.
Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim'rous beastie, O, what a panic's in thy breastie!
I knew from day one, the truth would prevail, but I was so scared I didn't know what to do.
One need not be a chamber to be haunted.
I was afraid and did not know what I feared, which is the worst kind of fear.
Subjection to fear is weakness, bondage, feverish unrest. To be afraid is to have no soul that we can call our own; it is to be at the beck and call of alien powers, to be chained and driven and tormented; it is to lose the life itself in the anxious care to keep it.
When we function from a fearful, low-level energetic state, our thoughts and energy can literally pollute the world.
When you are frightened, you typically pull energy in to your center, seeing less, hearing less-shrinking consciousness precisely when you need to expand it.
