#fear

The earliest sensation at the onset of illness, often preceding the recognition of identifiable symptoms, is apprehension. Something has gone wrong, and a glimpse of mortality shifts somewhere deep in the mind. It is the most ancient of our fears. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#apprehension #deep #earliest #fears #glimpse

Fear isn't so difficult to understand. After all, weren't we all frightened as children? Nothing has changed since Little Red Riding Hood faced the big bad wolf. What frightens us today is exactly the same sort of thing that frightened us yesterday. It's just a different wolf. This fright complex is rooted in every individual. ↗

— Alfred Hitchcock

#fairy-tales #fear #wolves #change

A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more. ↗

— John Steinbeck

#bravery #fear #change

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. ↗

— W.H. Auden

#fear #change

I cannot help fearing that men may reach a point where they look on every new theory as a danger, every innovation as a toilsome trouble, every social advance as a first step toward revolution, and that they may absolutely refuse to move at all. ↗

— Alexis de Tocqueville

#advance #cannot #danger #every #fearing

What would you do if you were not afraid ? ↗

— Spencer Johnson

#fear-of-failure #change

for PEOPLE to rule themselves in a REPUBLIC , they must have virtue;for a TYRANT to rule in a TYRANNY ,he must use FEAR. ↗

— William J Federer

#republic #rule #tyranny #tyrant #virtue

In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#change

This is how best to effect change. If you reiterate the same fears and the same sensible measures with proper augmentation enough times, even difficult decisions will begin to seem like the only justifiable solutions. ↗

— Olli Jalonen

#government #politics #change

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

— W.H. Auden

#fear #change