Unreasonable Fear Quotes

#1. Is this a game? We just blurt out whatever word comes next to mind? In that case mine's 'genuphobia'. It means an unreasonable fear of knees."
"What's the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots?" inqired Jessamine.

Cassandra Clare

#2. We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted.

Philip Greenspun

#3. [On the ancient Venus figurines:] If the central religious figure was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a man dying on a cross, it would not be unreasonable to infer that life and the love of life - rather than death and the fear of death - were dominant in society as well as art.

Riane Eisler

#4. Unreasonable self-criticism represents a form of self-hatred and fear.

Bryant McGill

#5. It seems to be the fate of idealists to obtain what they have struggled for in a form which destroys their ideals.

Bertrand Russell

#6. At some point, you have to stop running and turn around and face whoever wants you dead.The hard thing is finding the courage to do it.

Suzanne Collins

#7. Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. Users get unlimited 'WhatsApp'. We get happy users who don't have to worry about data. Carriers get people willing to sign up for data plans.

Jan Koum

#9. In the silence of their studios, busied for days at a time with works which leave the mind relatively free, painters become like women; their thoughts can revolve around the minor facts of life and penetrate their hidden meaning.

Honore De Balzac

#10. There was a child went forth every day,
And the first object he looked upon, that object he became ...

Walt Whitman

#11. Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful
but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#12. Gordian pays you to sleep with unicorn hunters. That's the definition of a whore.

Diana Peterfreund

#13. In writing music, the structure of each piece is a very important factor.

Leo Ornstein

#14. I take as my fundamental starting point the fundamental distinction between work and interaction

Jurgen Habermas

#15. The most dangerous negativity comes from ourselves in the form of doubts, fears and unreasonable self-criticisms.

Bryant McGill

#16. The counselee should be aware that you are not God. Better yet, she should be aware that you are aware that you are not God.

James MacDonald

#17. Moon, moon,
when you leave me alone
all the darkness is
an utter blackness,
a pit of fear,
a stench,
hands unreasonable
never to touch.
But I love you.
Do you love me.
What to say
when you see me.

Robert Creeley