Quotes About Fear

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

If you are falling....dive.

A bit of advice Given to a young Native American At the time of his initiation: As you go the way of life, You will see a great chasm. Jump. It is not as wide as you think.

To live a creative life we must lose our fear of being wrong.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: "Para vivir una vida creativa, debemos perder nuestro miedo a equivocarnos" (Joseph Chilton Pearce)

How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat?

The last thing a woman will consent to discover in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.

Having had to encounter single-handed during his period of eclipse many physical dangers, he was well aware of the most dangerous element common to them all: of the crushing, paralysing sense of human littleness, which is what really defeats a human struggling with natural forces, alone, far from the eyes of his fellows.

How does one kill fear, I wonder How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat

He struggled with himself, too. I saw it -- I heard it. I saw the inconceivable mystery of a soul that knew no restraint, no faith, and no fear, yet struggling blindly with itself.

Now it's the dark's turn to be afraid.

Joseph Delaney

Just one thing worse than the dark, ain't there? And that's what's inside it - the things that call it home ...

The price is the blood of the girl who cowers behind you. - Hecate to Grimalkin about Thorne

If we're afraid, sometimes there are things that can feed on that fear. Fear makes it worse for us. The trick is to concentrate on what you can see and stop thinking about yourself. It works every time.

A witch should not fear her own death. It is just the setting of a sun and a promise of the darkness that is our true home.

I have become the mother of death.

In the heat of battle, all things are uncertain.

While I was fearing it, it came, but came with less of fear. . . . 'Tis harder knowing it is due, than knowing it is here." —EMILY DICKINSON2

It will be dangerous but I do not mind dangerous. I am brave.

Well, you know, a wise man once said that one of the great tragedies of our century is that a man can live his whole life and never know if he's a coward or not." I smiled, held up a forefinger. "Russell told me that.

There is nothing we fear so much as the unknown, and the Surgeon was not going to enlighten her.

Here Dostoevsky draws what seems to him the moral of the revolutions of 1848, and applies it to the Russian situation... "Every society can accommodate only that degree of progress that it has developed and begun to understand. Why reach further, why reach for the stars in the sky? This can destroy everything because it can frighten everyone.

As he fled he caught glimpses from the corner of his eye, and his only reaction was to run faster, so fast that his straining heart was at bursting point. Glimpses of something starved beyond the point of living, as white as bone, running along beside him on all fours like an animal, yet more twisted and unnatural than any he had ever seen before. He didn't dare to look round at whatever was pursuing him, for fear he might just give up, stop running, and let whatever it was claim him.