Quotes About Fear

Other people's eyes are limitless and that's what scares me.

Magnus," I say more gently. "Listen. There's no point doing this. Don't marry me just to prove you're not a quitter. Because you will quit, sooner or later. Whatever your intentions are. It'll happen." "Rubbish," he says fiercely. "You will. You don't love me enough for the long haul.

You can't fix something if you're hiding from it.

Are you so scared people will hate you?" "What?" I stare at him, not knowing how to react. "What are you talking about?" He gestures at the phone. "Your emails are like one big cry. Kiss, kiss, hug, hug, please like me, please like me!

I feel a blinding shaft of terror, which I tell myself to ignore, as my brain will often try to send me messages that are untrue and I do not have to listen to them. This is lesson one at St. John's: your brain is an idiot.

They were even talking about buying a bodyguard, can you believe it? I mean, what on earth would I look like, turning up with a bodyguard? Actually, I'd look pretty cool and mysterious, wouldn't I? That might have been quite a good idea.

I never used to be scared. But over the last few years, I've gradually got more and more nervous. I know it's completely irrational.

A break from what? Until that moment we'd been fine. So clearly what he needed a break from was the risk of hearing the word "marriage" again.

But I was afraid you might blab.

Some people lose their nerve for riding or skiing or driving; well, I've lost my nerve for life.

didn't dare to peer into the future.

Do not fear for me. Make straight your own path to destiny.

To the man who is afraid everything rustles.

For e'en the bravest spirits run away When they perceive death pressing on life's heels.

In his den the monster keep, Giver of eternal sleep.

Both noun (eusebia) and verb (sebizo) derive from the Greek root seb-, which refers to the awe that radiates from gods to humans and is given back as worship. Everything related to this root has fear in it.

they would praise me too if their lips weren't locked in fear. Lucky tyrants - the perquisites of power! Ruthless power to do and say whatever pleases them.

Oed. Must I not fear my mother's marriage-bed?

Pues así como estoy, me voy a ir. Venid, venid, compañeros los que estáis presentes y ausentes; y con hachas en las manos corred hacia el lugar famoso. Y yo, puesto que mi opinión así ha cambiado, y yo mismo la aprisioné, quiero estar presente para salvarla; pues temo no sea la mejor resolución el vivir observando las leyes establecidas.

Last night was a night of bad dreams and ambiguous visions.

Dark, dark! The horror of darkness, like a shroud, wraps me and bears me on through mist and cloud.

And a crowd of other horrors you'd never dream will level you with yourself and all your children.

Oh no no, I think I've just called down a dreadful curse upon myself

I have a terrible fear the blind seer can see.