Quotes About Fear

I personally believe Patch scared the pants off normal, and it took off running for the far side of the world.

Unable to attribute misfortune to chance, unable to accept their ultimate insignificance within the greater scheme, the people looked for monsters in their midst.

Fear is ever-present, waiting to be called to the surface. Change brought fear, and fear brought destruction.

Just as courage is not the absence of fear but the determination to be brave and move forward in spite of our nerves, genuine peace is not the absence of trauma but is finding our calm in the midst of turmoil, the presence of Jesus asleep in the storm.

The subtext of all table manners is the fear that the man next to you may pull his knife on you.

Our urge to avoid eating something that makes us feel sick is often at the root of disordered eating, as we swerve away from whole categories of foods that we imagine would make us feel uneasy.

Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.

In regard to the great mass of men, anything that breaks the realm of fear is not salutary, but dangerous; because it takes off one of the hoops that hold the barrel together in which the evil spirits are confined.

There is nothing that makes more cowards and feeble men than public opinion.

Some sins, like asps, always carry their sting with them.

Fear secretes acids.

Not to fear where there is occasion, is as great a weakness as to fear unduly, without reason.... Fear is a kind of bell, or gong, which rings the mind into quick life and avoidance upon the approach of danger.

Many people are afraid to embrace religion, for fear they shall not succeed in maintaining it.

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to a bad end.

Many of us, her mind repeated, walking with vague symptoms, breathing fear. So many of us who, through love, have a stake in life.

It is women who love horror. Gloat over it. Feed on it. Are nourished by it. Shudder and cling and cry out-and come back for more.

I have never met a vampire personally, but I don't know what might happen tomorrow.

You know that life is a cycle, don't you, my sweetheart?' she said. 'All things are born, and all things die. Other people are afraid of that, but you must never be. If you accept it, life will always be beautiful for you, even when it is sorrowful.

But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.

How am I looking at you?" "Like I'm Little Red to your big bad wolf." "Well," he said slowly, "I do want to eat you.

Getting started with something new was always the scariest part. The rest was just confidence and practice.

When it turns out the truth is that loving someone, truly loving them with everything inside you, means getting over your own fears so that you can give them every piece of your heart. Even when it's hard, even when it's scary. Especially then.

Love meant laying every single thing out on the line and trusting that the other person would lay everything out, too. Without fear. And without regret. "How

Falling for you was the scariest thing in the entire world, and losing my heart to you was the most terrifying thing I could imagine. Until I finally realized why I was so afraid. I thought I was going to lose myself in you, when the truth is that with you is where I've finally found everything that truly matters.