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Quotes About Fear

They live in perpetual fear of the time they call "The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief
~ Douglas Adams
It was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it.
~ Edna O'Brien
This is our time. Until that time stops - for one of us, for both – it is our time. Now. Will you waste it, because you are afraid?
~ Diana Gabaldon
The only time I had any butterflies was when I stood up and backed toward the open door and looked down.
~ George H. W. Bush
Everything to do with time is hideous.
~ Robert Aickman
Heart, fear nothing, for, heart, thou shalt find her- Next time, herself!-not the trouble behind her
~ Robert Browning
Jump in a hole without looking, and there'll be a snake in it every time.
~ Robert Jordan
We do not go to cowards for tender dealing; there is nothing so cruel as panic; the man who has least fear for his own carcase, has most time to consider others.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
I'm really scary in reality. Most of the time.
~ Robert Pattinson
Once every seven days, do something that frightens you. Every time we do something that we resist and is frightening, we actually grow in our power.
~ Robin Sharma
There's going to be a time when MS-13 fires an RPG into an Alexandria [Va.] police car, and [Americans] are going to say, 'What the hell happened?'
~ Roger Noriega
Heterosexual men terrified me. I found them to be dangerous. Not all of them, of course, but it took me some time to learn to be comfortable.
~ Rose McGowan
The Republican Party was just as scared of the Tea Party as the Democrats were. We just didn't know it at the time.
~ Rush Limbaugh
We live in a frightened time, and people self-censor all the time and are afraid of going into some subjects because they are worried about violent reactions.
~ Salman Rushdie
I feel like I am in a box of bees when I am in a room with lots of people and I'm just looking for the door. I find myself getting more and more agoraphobic as time goes on.
~ Sandra Cisneros
I feel pretty vulnerable all the time.
~ Saul Williams
More time on the problem isn't the way. More guts is. When you expose yourself to the opportunities that scare you, you create something scarce, something others won't do.
~ Seth
If you're not willing to face the abyss of choice, you will almost certainly not spend enough time dancing with opportunity.
~ Seth Godin
Any man who has seen the face of death knows better than to seek him out a second time.
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
After that, anytime she caught me near a kitchen she'd start in on me. So I have an automatic sphincter clench any time I reach for a pan. (Devyn)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
A human being can spend only so much time outside her comfort zone before she realizes she is still tethered to it.
~ Sloane Crosley
See the BEAR of fearsome size! All the WORLD'S within his eyes. TIME grows thin, the past is a riddle; The TOWER awaits you in the middle.
~ Stephen King
I wanted to write a balls-to-the-wall supernatural horror story, something I haven't done in a long time.
~ Stephen King
I know you're frustrated that he's keeping you locked up like this, but don't give him too bad a time when he gets back. He loves you more than you know. It terrifies him to be away from you.
~ Stephenie Meyer