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Quotes About Fear

La catastrofe de la vejez residía en no atreverse a ir a cualquier parte, en resignarse a perder la libertad
~ Elizabeth Taylor
His cock came out, and she blinked. "That? You're going to rape me with that?
~ Elizabeth Vaughan
Fear Hold you still when you need to move, and moves you when you need to be still. Fear makes you silent when you need to be Loud, and Loud when you need silence. Fear closes your throat, makes it hard to breathe. Fear weakens your hand and blinds your eyes. Fear is a danger. Know your fear. Face your fear.
~ Elizabeth Vaughan
Fear makes you silent when you need to be loud and loud when you need silence.
~ Elizabeth Vaughan
The anticipation of what they will do to you is every bit as sickening in a dream as when it is really going to happen.
~ Elizabeth Wein
I AM A COWARD.
~ Elizabeth Wein
The quick, sudden terror of exploding bombs is not the same as the never-ending, bone-sapping fear of discovery and capture. It never goes away. There isn't ever any relief, never the possibility of an 'All Clear' siren. You always feel a little bit sick inside, knowing the worst might happen at any moment.
~ Elizabeth Wein
Doing the thing you are scared of is much harder than not being afraid of anything. It is easy to be brave. It is not so easy to be scared and do a brave thing anyway.
~ Elizabeth Wein
If you're scared, do something.
~ Elizabeth Wein
She tried not to think about what it would be like running across the airfield to the radio room an hour from now, under fire. But she did it. Because you do. It is incredible what you do, knowing you have to.
~ Elizabeth Wein
I am no longer afraid of getting old. Indeed I can't believe I ever said anything so stupid. So childish. So offensive and arrogant. But mainly, so very, very stupid. I desperately want to grow old.
~ Elizabeth Wein
I am scared of the way they are clinging to the French and Belgian ports, even though they've been pushed out of most of the rest of France. There is something about it that spooks me. They've lost.
~ Elizabeth Wein
Rose: But when you're in the air, and the sky above you is a sea of gray mist and the land below you is all green, the silver balloons float in between like a school of shining silver whales, bobbing a little in the wind. They are as big as buses, and I and every other pilot have a healthy fear of them because their teathering cables are loaded with explosives to try to snarl up enemy aircraft.
~ Elizabeth Wein
Listening to the Rabbits talk about their operations was like watching a horror movie in a foreign language. You sort of hoped you'd misunderstood what was going on. And then when you figured out what was really going on, it was worse than you'd thought.
~ Elizabeth Wein
They eat everything alive. People, dogs, horses. Everything with flesh on it. So many of them crawling. Everywhere. Leaving the bones behind.
~ Elizabeth Winthrop
A truly courageous person is the one who must first conquer fear within himself.
~ Elizabeth Winthrop
I was so scared to give up depression, fearing that somehow the worst part of me was actually all of me.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it.
~ Ella Maillart
Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.
~ Ella Maillart
My anxiety and pain during the Scud attacks on Israel, where some of my family lives, did not cancel out my fear and anguish for the victims of the bombardment of Iraq, where I also have relatives.
~ Ella Shohat
One woman was sure that her father would appear on her front steps and try to kill her. In actuality, he hid from her after that, avoiding her totally. He was scared of her. You may not realize it, but you hold a lot of power when you tell the truth.
~ Ellen Bass
A dread that something bad was waiting for me has followed me most of my life. I have a morbid fear of the dark. I will never close my eyes in the shower. There are parts of my own house I am just beginning to go into.
~ Ellen Bass
They danced to beat back the fear. They danced after hearing someone else they knew had died in a foreign land or was reported missing in action. They danced to be so exhausted they could sleep. They danced to shut off the voices, the questions, the uncertainty.
~ Ellen Byerrum
She'd found the mantra calmed her in life as well as in the car, so whenever she felt fear well up, as it was at the moment, she repeated it to herself. I am having a safe, uneventful journey . . . I am having a safe, uneventful journey . .
~ Ellen Byron