Quotes About Fear

It is always easier to sleep at night if the monsters outside your house only knock when you give them cause.

the West Valley City police were still silent about the fact that it was Susan's blood that they'd recovered from her house, and that she had left a note saying she was afraid her husband might kill her.

the faces of Mimi Garcia and her dead brother, Enrique. His was lifeless, chalky white. His sister's was full of fear. I'll take care

And since you've never talked about it, you don't know even how to really frame your thoughts. You fear that your words will tumble out in a way that will only make things worse.

horrible scenes with me before and seemed okay. I would ask him, but I don't want to see another

When you have something that you carry inside and never talk about, you don't ever unleash it on a stranger. And since you've never talked about it, you don't know even how to really frame your thoughts. You fear that your words will tumble out in a way that will only make things worse. If that's even possible.

She couldn't face what was really happening. Routine brought comfort.

When you have something that you carry inside and never talk about, you don't ever unleash it on a stranger. And since you've never talked about it, you don't know even how to really frame your thoughts. You fear that your words will tumble out in a way that will only make things worse.

Investigators, however, understood that 10 percent of a nightmare is still a nightmare.

She was held captive by love, fear, and the church's promise that if she prayed harder, everything would get better.

If Anna passed by, it brought Lara a shudder of relief. Only then could Lara take a breath. A very deep one.

well, I don't think I'm equipped to raise our daughter.

It takes only the mention of a single word to take her back to the unthinkable.

She'd learned from Nikki's experience that not rocking the boat didn't stop bad things from happening.

a visceral reaction to a word that scrapes at her like the talons of an eagle, cutting and slicing her skin until blood runs out.

she woke up, unable to breathe through a pillow pressed over her face.

What the fear of hell could not do, my discovery of the love of God could do: it began to permanently break the stronghold

Terrors can be mirrors, too.

Marthe had reported back from her girl-girl talk that Elisabeth took quite calmly the immense fact that she was now venturing into the landscape where she could create another human being, a prospect that to Karl seemed more frightening than, say, getting a driver's license. All this he felt as they finished breakfast, hustled into street garb, and turned left onto boulevard Raspail.

At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone.

One of the ironies of courage, and the reason why we prize it so highly, is that we find it easier to be brave for someone else than we do for ourselves alone.

Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.

People say that love is the best thing in the world not power. But they are wrong. Love is the opposite of power and that's why we fear it so much.

hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words