Accidents Quote by David Hume

“The idea of safety had shrunk into particles - one snug moment, then the next. Meanwhile, the brain piped fugues of worry and staged…

— Diane Ackerman

“Fortunate is he whose mind has the power to probe the causes of things and trample underfoot all terrors and inexorable fate.”

— Virgil

“[T]he relentless note of incipient hysteria, the invitation to panic, the ungrounded scenarios--the overwhelming and underlying desire for something truly terrible to happen so…

— Adam Gopnik

“Done Amid fear and suspicion, with startled minds and frightened eyes, we pine and scheme over what steps to take to avoid the certain…

— Constantinos P. Cavafis

“Like the body craves oxygen, the mind is desperate for certainty. It believes that without a safe foothold on reality, it will die. But…

— Jacob Nordby

The task of worrying is to come up with positive solutions for life's perils by anticipating dangers before they arise. If we are preoccupied…

— Daniel Goleman

Crime, folly, sickness and all phenomena must be contemplated with complete freedom from fear aversion or shame. Otherwise we shall fail to see accurately,…

— Aleister Crowley

“The most fortunate of us, in our journey through life, frequently meet with calamities and misfortunes which may greatly afflict us; and, to fortify…

— Thomas Jefferson

With spectacular events taking up so much of the available anxiety quotient, we need to be constantly reminded of the more workaday threats to…

— Will Self

“our early warning system evolved in an era of immediacy, when threats were of the tiger-in-the-bush variety. Things have changed since. Many of today’s…

— Peter H. Diamandis

Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about an examination,…

— Willard Gaylin

The search for safety takes its clearest form... in the compulsive-obsessive neurosis... to frantically order and stabilize the world so that no unmanageable, unexpected…

— Abraham Maslow