Why be afraid at all?

[Writer]

We're on this planet for such a limited time - bundles of energy that burn out in 75 to 100 years. Why be afraid of anything in life?

Deep thoughts...

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. True dat...

"Fear isn't fun; what price enjoyment?" -Jim Thirwell

[Guava Jelly]

2. I have no idea

"The only thing we have to fear is fear it'self - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."
---- FDR - First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933
"One of the things which danger does to you after a time is -, well, to kill emotion. I don't think I shall ever feel anything again except fear. None of us can hate anymore - or love."
---- Graham Greene - The Confidential Agent (1939)

"What are fears but voices airy?
Whispering harm where harm is not.
And deluding the unwary
Till the fatal bolt is shot!"
---- Wordsworth

"Fear - jealousy - money - revenge - and protecting someone you love."
---- Frederick Knott - Max Halliday, listing the five important motives for murder, Dial M for Murder (1952)

"What potions have I drunk of Siren tears,
Distill'd from limbecks foul as hell within,
Applying fears to hopes, and hopes to fears,
Still losing when I saw myself to win!"
---- Will - Sonnets

"Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake."
---- Edgar Wallace - The Clue of the Twisted Candle (1916)

"- Tush! Tush! Fear little boys with bugs."
---- Will - The Taming of the Shrew

"All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears--of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, or speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words "Some Assembly Required."
---- Dave Barry

"Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?"
---- Luciano Pavarotti

"Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is."
---- German Proverb

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark."
---- Francis Bacon

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear."
--- H.P. Lovecraft

"In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly."
---- Coleridge

"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
--- Frank Herbert, Dune - Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear

"A man who has been in danger,
When he comes out of it forgets his fears,
And sometimes he forgets his promises."
---- Euripides - Iphigenia in Tauris (414-12 BC)

"He either fears his fate too much,
Or his deserts are small,
That puts it not unto the touch
To win or lose it all"
---- James Graham - Marquis of Montrose

"I have almost forgot the taste of fears.
The time has been my senses would have cool'd
To hear a night shriek, and my fell of hair
Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
As life were in't. I have supp'd full with horrors;
Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,
Cannot once start me."
---- Will - Macbeth

"Being frightened is an experience you can't buy."
---- Anthony Price - Sion Crossing (1984)

"What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope."
---- Publilius Syrus - Moral Sayings (1st C B.C.)

"Solitude scares me. It makes me think about love, death, and war. I need distraction from anxious, black thoughts."
---- Brigitte Bardot

"Why are we scared to die? Do any of us remember being scared when we were born?"
---- Trevor Kay

"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice."
---- Edgar Watson Howe - Country Town Sayings (1911)

Courage is not the lack of fear but the ability to face it."
---- Lt. John B. Putnam Jr. (1921-1944)

[Fire Walk With Me]

7. I'm afraid that people will have more relevant quotes than I do.

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. Um... because fear is your brain's way of telling you

that maybe this isn't a real good idea? :shrug:

[hunter]

5. But there are so many harmless things we are afraid of.

And things where it is right to be afraid, but wrong to let that fear prevent us from doing what is right.

Everyone should swim in the ocean naked at least once!

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. Undertow. Sharks. Jellyfish.

Salt water in places it shouldn't oughta be. :scared:



I agree that we too often allow fear to stand in our way, but my point was there's a very good reason for fear: self-preservation.



BTW — ever notice that people who have stuff like "Live life to the fullest" and "Be all that you can be" in online profiles had their asses plopped in front of a computer when they wrote 'em? :D

[hunter]

9. I can get into plenty of trouble on the computer...

And you can find pictures of me romping around naked if you know where to look...

But I don't often look.

:blush:

[stuntcat]

8. I swam naked! :D

But I'm really freaked out lately by how hardened everyone as a whole seems to be turning, and how we rape the Earth. It's not a minute-to-minute fear, I'm way happy most of the time :D but I have this dread of the future, I feel like I'm removed from the world now and just watching it burn itself up :hi:
Which I guess is a kind of fear, but it doesn't affect things I do, just how I see everyone.. except some Democrats of course, and my family, who mostly Rock

[LynzM]

11. I'm with ya, stuntcat!

I posed for photos nude in the woods. Damn, that was liberating!

Also there with the dread of the future, the feeling of watching but not being involved. :hug:

[Nikia]

4. I can't help it

I have anxiety disorders.

[lost-in-nj]

10. Writer

the only thing I am afraid of
is being alone when I die....
My dad,2 brothers and mom all had loved ones around them
thats all I want....

:hug: :hug:
someone to hold my hand.....


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