Quotes About Fear

And terror's first cousin: media coverage.

That placed her inches from a yawning abyss.

works." "Ree's still worried about that," I said. "Could you blame her? Taking

always talked about her middle sister, my aunt Edna, being afraid of her own shadow as a kid. When

attacked the glass. A cracking sound made me jump back. The pane was intact, but I could swear I heard the glass hum. Robin behind me now. I tried again, and once more the monster lunged. Kept lunging.

At first, when a child meets something that scares him, the fear grows, like a wave. But when he goes into the water and swims - gets used to the water - the wave grows small. If we pull the child away when the wave is high, he never sees that, never learns how to swim and remains afraid. If he gets a chance to feel strong, in control, that's called coping. When he copes, he feels better.

human beings as a species have never failed to find reasons to regard one another with fear and loathing and thus to offer violence to one another.

There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last. There's only us. There's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road. No other way. No day but today. I can't control my destiny. I trust my soul, my only goal is just to be. There's only now, there's only here. Give into love, or live in fear. No other course, no other way. NO DAY but TODAY

In these dangerous times, where it seems that the world is ripping apart at the seams, we all can learn how to survive from those who stare death squarely in the face every day and [we] should reach out to each other and bond as a community, rather than hide from the terrors of life at the end of the millennium.

Give in to love, or live in fear

I was glad to get in that stall. It was a funny feeling, being naked and fighting a man with a gun. I didn't like it. I felt the bullets would hurt more, naked.

To be human is necessarily to be a vulnerable risk-taker; to be a courageous human is to be good at it

At a certain age we forget to be afraid of people. We start to dread, instead, their absence.

As Andrew stood before his students he felt the nerves that rack any amateur hypocrite.

What age is a black boy when he learns he's scary?

Prima ho parlato della paura: quel che provavo allora non lo chiamerei paura, comunque non una paura schietta e consapevole, era un disagio quasi fisico, come un prurito che non si può grattare, concentrato sulle parti cieche del corpo, la nuca, la schiena, le natiche.

Gli omosessuali gli fanno paura, li odia, Pensa che un omosessuale ereditario possa contaminare con la sua malattia decine di giovani, e che allora tutti quei giovani saranno perduti per la razza.

Guilt and rage, hatred and fear were pathways to weakness and clumsy choices.

They held each other and wept as the night closed its fist around their tiny shelter, and the world below them seethed with killers both living and dead.

Benny Imura was appalled to learn that the Apocalypse came with homework. "Why do we have to study this stuff?" he demanded. "We already know what happened. People started turning into zoms, the zoms ate just about everyone, everyone who dies becomes a zom, so the moral of this tale is: Try not to die.

What could I do? I was afraid he'd point at me and say 'Him!,' and then lightning bolts would hit me or something" -Chong

I took a very careful hold of the metal door handle. No shocks and nothing exploded. I pulled gently and the door yielded, but I stayed on the balls of my feet. If I felt the tension of a wire or heard a click, I was going to set a new land speed record for a scared white guy in a hazmat suit.

Benny Imura sat in the dark and spoke with monsters. It was like that every day. It had become the pattern of his life. Shadows and blood. And monsters. Everywhere. Monsters.

Newton screamed when he felt them begin to crawl over his scrotum and try to wiggle between his buttocks