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When you live.. You can die.. Accept it... ..and become fearless
As long as we__e comparing analogies,_ Jack added, __ow about this one? A person being chased by a bear doesn__ have to be able to run faster than the bear. He only has to be faster than his slowest companion. Driver picks. I__ going to catch up with the convoy, find a way to pass several of the cars, and not be last in line.
He leaned towards me, and I did what any reasonable person would do when facing imminent death by being eaten alive. I screamed.
Fear is the paralyzing emotion that inhibits or restricts normal feelings of love, confidence, and well-being.
In the presence of the storm, thunderbolts, hurricane, rain, darkness, and the lions, which might be concealed but a few paces away, he felt disarmed and helpless.
In the meantime the groans changed into the protracted, thunderous roar by which all living creatures are struck with terror, and the nerves of people, who do not know what fear is, shake, just as the window-panes rattle from distant cannonading.
Her face expressed suffering so deep that I will never forget it; her eyes radiated a deep sadness...Mrs. Folmer was oppressed by that special sadness, perhaps the most horrible torture, of those who had no idea what happened to their loved ones.
...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them.
Real terror is a crippling experience. You sweat so much that your skin goes all wrinkly like when you've been in the bath all afternoon. And then the scent of your sweat changes. It smells like cat pee, no doubt from the adrenalin. However hard you wash, it won't come off. It smothers you, as your muscles become frozen with acid and your mind paralysed by despair.
Only the cruelest hunters set their traps with terror and trepidation.
This book is a memoir - not of specific life events, but of the processes of dissociation, and of re-enlivening emotions that are shameful to admit or even to feel. It is an account of the altered states that trauma induces, which make it possible to survive a life-threatening event but impair the capacity to feel fear, and worse still, impair the ability to love. (292)
We think there are limits to the dimensions of fear. Until we encounter the unknown. Then we can all feel boundless amounts of terror.
Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that comes from it.
I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.
Religion should teach about hope to come for all, not terror for some
Patches don__ look it, but when attached to your soul they can get pretty heavy. They go over the holes in your soul, like when you patch a sock. When you have a hole in your soul, it__ because you__e hurting from something. I don__ know if you noticed, but that girl had a lot of holes.
Somehow her hula hoop had cut into the driver__ side door like the vehicle was made of cheese.