Quotes About Fear

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.

Once we wandered a free Earth, carrying a picture of our God or king to ensure safe passage. Now the world is gated, and we carry pictures of ourselves, and nobody's safe.

a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet.

I don't know what scares me more, she declared, the madness that smashes people down, or their ability to endure it.

Peace, Idriss once said, is perfect forgiveness, and is the opposite of fear.

You can be happy and afraid and angry in your dreams, but you have to be wide awake to be sad, don't you think?

In the beginning we feared everything - animals, the weather, the trees, the night sky - everything except each other. Now we fear each other, and almost nothing else. No one knows why anyone does anything. No one tells the truth. No one is happy. No one is safe.

It stopped me. I felt, as I too often did, that I was abandoning him. It was foolish, I knew: Didier was arguably the most self-sufficient contrabandist in the city. He was one of the last independent gangsters, owing nothing, not even fear, to the mafia Companies, cops and street gangs that controlled his illegal world. But there are some people, some loves, that worry every goodbye, and leaving them is like leaving the country of your birth.

When I smiled my relief and surprise, the man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.

loves that produce our courage.

I don't know what scares me more,' she declared, 'the madness that smashes people down, or their ability to endure it.

I looked at the face—the long, fine nose and wide brow and upward curving lips—and wondered, not for the first time, and not for the last, if my love for him would cost me my life.

and in my mind I pushed the locked, heavy box of fear all the way to the back of the attic.

Non so cosa mi spaventa di più: il potere che ci schiaccia o la nostra infinita capacità di sopportarlo.

She wasn't afraid of doing good or of resisting evil. She was merely afraid she might not be able to tell the difference.

Are you the dart? he said. Are you the knife? The fuse? She said (though he wasn't convinced): My deane, my poppet, I am too green to walk into a public place and do something bad...

We learned not to let the fear of failure stop us from attempting to fulfil our dreams - whether that dream involved a change in career, attempting to set world records, or helping young people.

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death.

We saw when those World Trade towers came down what these terrorists will do.

I had a really hard time after 9/11. I was basically living across the street from the World Trade Center, and a big chunk of debris fell on top of my building, and the roof caved in. I thought I was going to die. Really. I'd never thought that before, but on that day I sat there and thought 'I cannot believe it's going to end this way.'

We've already seen how it's going to come in, in a truck, like it did at Oklahoma City at the Federal building or it's going to come in by plane, like it did at the World Trade Center.

If the perpetrators of the World Trade Center plane crashes had a nuclear weapon, there's no doubt in my mind but that they would've detonated it in New York.

My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.

The First World War was a horror of gas, industrialised slaughter, fear, and appalling human suffering.