Quotes About Fear

There is a secret about human love that is commonly overlooked: Receiving it is much more scary and threatening than giving it. How many times in your life have you been unable to let in someone's love or even pushed it away? Much as we proclaim the wish to be truly loved, we are often afraid of that, and so find it difficult to open to love or let it all the way in.

Give me 100 preachers who fear nothing but sin and desire nothing but God; such alone will shake the gates of hell.

Good people avoid sin because they love goodness, Wicked people avoid sin because they fear punishment.

God revealed to me that our country and our president must overcome one obstacle, one sinister trick of the devil in order to get this snowball of revival rolling across the land. One small deception that makes us vulnerable to our enemies in this upcoming season of vicious spiritual warfare: Fear.

Gavin leaned over the table. "Welcome to Cradle Bay High, Stevie boy. Welcome to my nightmare.

You tend to get what you focus on. If you fear failure, you are focused on failure and that is what you get.

Between the brutality that would sacrifice a single innocent life to a fear without a name, and the enlightenment that would sacrifice thousands of lives to a fear that we have named, I have found little to choose.

A tientas, confusos, se tocaron, se enredaron en un abrazo torpe y tenso y durante largo rato permanecieron sentados juntos sin moverse, como si cualquier movimiento pudiese dejar escapar de ellos la cosa extraña y terrible que agarraban con las manos.

I never liked riding in helicopters because there's a fair probability that the bottom part will get going around as fast as the top part.

In my experience,' he told me, 'if you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either. Now, running to a thing, that's a different matter, but what would you want to run to?

In my experience,' he told me, 'if you run away from a thing just because

Te recordaré, abuelo. Te recordaré. Nunca se me olvidará lo que me dijiste. Es sólo el miedo lo que es diabólico...

He's a civilized, liberal-minded man - with the usual trouble of liberal-minded men; that they think others are, too. He has an interested, inquiring mind. He has never grasped that the average mind when it encounters something new is scared, and says: "Better smash it, or suppress it, quick." Well, he's just had another demonstration of the average mind at work.

If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.

Why should they be afraid of us? We aren't hurting them,' she broke in. "I'm not sure that I know why,' I told her. 'But they are. It's a feel-thing not a think-thing. And the more stupid they are, the more like everyone else they think everyone ought to be. And once they get afraid they become cruel and want to hurt people who are different –

Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.

The dove is not a coward to fear the hawk; it is simply wise.

In my experience,' he told me, 'if you run away from a thing just because you don't like it you don't know what you find either. Now running to a thing, that's a different matter, but what would you want to run to?

You think you got something big to say? Something momentous? Or is it what you had to memorize in order to escape the men with lightning in their eyes?

When we fear what other people think about us, we are frequently more focused on 'being interesting' and less focused on 'taking an interest.' That's why many people talk a great deal when they are anxious and why many people never feel heard. If both people and conversation are trying to be interesting, there is no one left to genuinely listen.

Driving home, Tommy was aware of a sensation like that of a tire becoming flat, as though he had been filled—all his life—with some sustaining air, and it was gone now; he felt, increasingly as he drove, a sense of fear. He could not understand it.

He was once an abstract Grandeur which I struggled more in fear than love to please. He has become a living Presence, dear and real

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

In the mirror,' she thought, 'he sees something unreal - he sees the opinion of the world, is driven by fear of the world and judges me by the world's standards. But the world isn't real. It has no existence. Mr. Taylor is real - or was until this morning - and I am real, but what is Roddy? He is just a man looking into a mirror watching his own face growing angrier.