Quotes About Fear

I am not afraid of being single. I am afraid of making a marriage I would regret.

She longed for it and dreaded it.

He had paid dearly for his secrecy, for his lack of courage in coming to the point.

It was a fear that disappeared once the action started, to be replaced by the mad bloodlust that was sometimes called courage.

I cannot bring you a whole heart, sir, and I fear that the future will always be clouded by the experiences of the past.

Sometimes our dreams lead us in the wrong direction and it would be foolish to continue pursuing them out of sheer stubbornness or the fear of disappointing others. There are other dreams waiting to be dreamed—the right dreams, the ones that will lead to contentment.

There was such a thing as happiness, and it would be silly not to enjoy it when one felt it rather than shy away from it for fear it would not last.

What was she to do? There seemed to be precious little she could do. She turned back to the ballroom in some dread.

And you would probably be always telling me that I am angry with you when I am not angry at all but only afraid of losing you.

I fear the rain has stopped and it is time to squelch our way back through the grass to the house. If you were a gentleman, she said, you would carry me.

Will you have regrets later, love? I do not think I could bear that.

If we can only face our worst fears and move forward into them and through them instead of cowering or turning tail and running as far from them as we can, then we will never have to fear anything ever again.

In one way . . . living in a cocoon was preferable to stepping out into a larger, brighter, freer world. There was light and joy in this world—she seemed to have lived more intensely in the past week than she had done in all her life before. But there was the anticipation of pain too. The house was going to feel quite unbearably empty . . . . Her life was going to be unbearably empty. But then cocoons were not necessarily warm, comforting places either.

God, he said very quietly. I have never been so terrified in my life. What? Diana frowned . . . I said I am terrified, he said. I think I am in love with you, Diana. I have never felt such a thing before or ever expected to do so. You don't have to say this, she said. I told you I expected nothing beyond tonight. I want a lifetime, he said. I want eternity. Diana, send me away.

It is as well we cannot know when the world will end or when we will die—or when everything that makes the world a beautiful place or life worth living will come crashing down about us.

La verità è che i Classici sono in declino per definizione [...] La sensazione di una perdita imminente, il perenne timore che gli studi classici stiano per scomparire per sempre è ciò che [...] conferisce a queste discipline l'energia e la tensione di cui ritengo siano ancora intrise.

Even when an individual tried to fake it, the eyes still echoed loss, love, fear, or hate.

And....and well, I can't be kissing a man. that's a good way to get tangled up...in forever

We are what we fear in others

The answer was clear, though he half-expected his hand to shrivel and turn black when he voted for a Republican.

I do not want to spend another minute of whatever I have left bein' scared. I can't carry the fear anymore. Not mine. Not yours. I have to lay that burden down.

You know what's the most terrifying thing about admitting that you're in love?" she asked him. "You are just naked. You put yourself in harm's way and you lay down all your defenses. No clothes, no weapons. Nowhere to hide. Completely vulnerable. The only thing that makes it tolerable is to believe the other person loves you back and that you can trust him not to hurt you.

Self-disclosure is almost like sex... It isn't easy to bare your soul

He had also discovered the outermost limit of faith and, in doing so, had located the exact boundary of despair. It was at that moment that he learned, truly, to fear God.