Quotes about Being Frightened

fear is a visceral response to imminent jeopardy, real or perceived, threatening to come crashing down on you with devastating results.

Fright often occurs, caused by the unexpected.

A fear is a reaction to a specific danger, to which the individual can make a specific adjustment. But what characterizes anxiety is the feeling of diffuseness and uncertainty and the experience of helplessness toward the threat.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

That which is afraid is that which is capable of
being affected.

You’re frightening me” “be frightened. Sometimes its very intelligent to be afraid”

we have four different emotional reactions to fear: We panic, we freeze, we run away, or we bury it, as I had buried my anxiety about my parents. The first two are shorter-term strategies, while the second two are longer-term, but all of them distract us from the situation and prevent us from using our fear productively.

Fear means being afraid of the future. When you are not ready to accept the future moments, it becomes fear.

When one is gripped by excruciating physical pain, one is always shocked at just how frightful it can be.

TRUE! — nervous — very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?

Fear is the imaginary response to something that has not happened.

said that fear is “excitement without breath.”)

Who is unacquainted with the sparkling eye. The full and quick pulse, the free respiration, the glowing colour, and serene brow of the joyous? Who is not familiar with the trembling aspect, the stammering hesitation, the cold ruffled skin, the bristling hair, the palpitating heart, the uneasiness, the impeded respiration, the paleness, the low pulse, and all the other symptoms occasioned by fear?

Jack: I'm scared, I'm frightened.

every new experience and in every new environment an individual will feel some degree of fear.