Quotes About Fear

The weird thing is that I hate to fly, and the quote that I give people is that every time I get off a plane, I view it as a failed suicide attempt.

For the first time all day I felt safe. Except that Patch had cornered me in a dark tunnel and was possibly stalking me. Maybe not so safe.

I spend so much time in fear of going broke, and I never have been even remotely close to going broke.

I don't think anyone can walk through the world in a state of vulnerability all the time, can they?

The first time I got up in front of an audience was terror, abject terror, which continued for another four or five years. There still is, a little bit.

When you hear fear knocking on the door, most of the time when you answer it there's nothing there. It's just you holding yourself back.

I froze, shocked. (And don't try to clam that you did anything different the first time a government bureaucrat pulled a gun on you.)

I have a really difficult time watching myself on film. I literally cower in my seat and cover my face.

You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity.

I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again.

How do you convince someone to change, to stop being afraid of himself? How do you convince yourself not to be so scared all the time?

A coward may cover the ground with his words but when the time comes to fight he runs away.

He keeps this up, he's bound to be caught, she thought. And this time they'll dangle him for certain.

perhaps because this time not fear but love made him read.

I would hate to be a bee. Be surrounded by bees all the time.

Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.

I carry around such a load of non-specific guilt that every time the metal detector beeps, I always have a wild fear that this trip I absent-mindedly packed a Luger.

When you spent so much time being terrified that you're going to get something, and then you have it, you don't have to be terrified anymore.

If he comes in the dark, then it's KYAG Time!" - Harkat Mulds (The Lake of Souls)

I guess it was exciting that every time I pulled up to the gate of my house, I wondered if someone was going to jump out of the bush and stab me in the face.

We wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy.

I grew up very insecure. From the time I was little I used to hide under my mother's dress.

We live in a time of fear," Skulduggery said, "where we're too scared of upsetting the status quo to ask the questions we need to be asking.

I spent a lot of time protecting myself. I mean, I've met a lot of extraordinary people over the years - and I just wish I had been able to open myself up to them more.