Quotes About Fear

our comfort or discomfort with the outer dark is a good barometer of how we feel about the inner kind.

how do we develop the courage to walk in the dark if we are never asked to practice?

when we run from darkness, how much do we really know about what we are running from? If we turn away from darkness on principle, doing everything we can to avoid it because there is simply no telling what it contains, isn't there a chance that what we are running from is God?

While those who are frightened by the primal energy of dark emotions try to avoid them, becoming more and more cut off from the world at large, those who are willing to wrestle with angels break out of their isolation by dirtying their hands with the emotions that rattle them most.

Anyone who stands up in front of other human beings to speak knows what a frightful gift it is. This power of ours has no safety catch on it. We are as likely to make nothing out of something as the other way around.

This may be the real reason many of us fear silence in church—because anyone sitting near us may hear the hissing, rumbling, wheezing sounds of a living human being, which do not match up with the attractive countenances that we work so hard to present to one another.

What if I could learn to trust my feelings instead of asking to be delivered from them? What if I could follow one of my great fears all the way to the edge of the abyss, take a breath, and keep going?

Most of us prefer to remain on our cow paths, where we know the language and we do not need maps because we know the way by heart. Some of us even stay behind our own fences because we do not want to be mistaken for interlopers in other people's pastures

No one understood, she thought, the horrible, insidious, snake-like fear which could run through one's body, sapping one's will to the point when one behaved foolishly simply because one could not think clearly.

I began to feel frightened and depressed, and thought, 'This is my punishment for being an adulteress.' Then I remembered I was even poorer before I was one, so perhaps it was a punishment for something I had forgotten.

Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.

playing small as they say nowadays, afraid of making others uncomfortable.

Every man wants love, if he can get past the fear of exposure.

She shifted in her chair, eyeing her front door with trepidation as she began to wonder if something might be wrong. What if he'd been hurt somewhere—if he'd been in an automobile accident or, more bizarre but nonetheless

She relived the frantic shopping and packing, the last teary gatherings with friends, the fear of a faceless roommate, the terror of academic failure. She also relived the excitement, because, in hindsight, going to college had been the single most pivotal point in her life.

So, is it harder to dream about what you don´t have than to live in fear of losing what you do?

Choices are easy when you have nothing to lose.

I had nothing to fear from my father. Except his disappointment. Which was no small thing.

There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us. Otherwise, you know, why not just come out and say it?

many of us cower at the edge of that psychological boundary and abort our soul's adventure.

The monsters aren't always in the closet or under the bed. Sometimes they're right in front of you, only everyone thinks they're the good guys.

of him going back into that fire.

Die Vielschichtigkeit der Welt und das Verworrene der Beziehungen in ihr jagt uns allen den Schrecken des Unabsehbaren ein, da täte Klarheit schon ganz gut. Doch was bedeutet Klarheit, wenn die Verhältnisse immer undurchschaubarer werden?

Sometimes out here, people swear to prove they're not scared.