Quotes About Fear

If a person fears God, she has no reason to fear anything else.

Memories of past events, traumas, and mistakes live on in our minds and affect how we react to our circumstances today. It may not be a fear of dogs; it may be something more horrific—but a memory can hold you captive, influencing your thinking and the decisions you make.

Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you

Life is full of what-ifs. You can't let it hold you back. If you do, you're not really living at all . . . just kind of going through the motions with no meaning.

I know life can be hard, but I've learned that we can rise above even the biggest challenges and fears. No matter where you've come from, or what you're facing, you are loved by God, and you can overcome it.

I'm scared of the unknown future.

This is why people don't like Washington, D.C., you just said something that I did not say and attributed it to me. This is your trick of the trade, to confuse and incite based on fear.

I hugged safety close to my chest and kissed risk full on the lips.

Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine. ISAIAH 43:1

The high fear was over, and nothing was left but the fear that never stops, the one that asks and asks, *How shall I stay alive today?*

All deaths seem terrible to the one who dies.

Because I was too afraid, I walked to the corpse and looked at it. It was bad. Then not so bad—a man turning into bone.

From cold or horror I could not speak. The sodden blanket was heavy, the coldness in my heart flowed out and turned the whole world cold—there was no warm place. The thoughts I had frozen in order not to feel them grew monstrous, freezing everything else.

Brought up to respect the conventions, love had to end in marriage. I'm afraid it did.

I would rather have a go at something I feel, and be hurt, than always be protecting myself—that way one does not really live.

But don't go thinking that I'm critical of you, Anton, because really I'm not. Not a bit! It's just that you're not here. I'm alone and I'm frightened and you're not here. And you're not ever going to be here for me.

But will somebody please tell me what's a person to do when they're too afraid of life to live and too afraid of death to die?

My contention is that for education to proceed children must have learned to fear something before they come to school. If it is not the once crippling fear of damnation and the woodshed, then in our more enlightened days it is at least the fear of losing parental love (or later, by proxy, the teacher's) and eventually the fear of losing self-respect.

A more refined morality must have as its base a once rigid belief in right and wrong based on a fear of perdition that permits of no shading, of no relativity. And when I speak here of perdition, it makes no difference whether perdition amounts to damnation in hell or the loss of parental affection. If, as modern middle-class parents are often advised, affection is guaranteed to the child no matter what, there will be no fear. But neither will there be much morality.

But as for morality being based on fear, nowadays we want to remove fear from the life of the child. And as for the content of morality, we often insist that it should not be self-interest. In short, we want the child to obey a morality whose fundamental motives we do our best to remove.

Anything I've ever done that ultimately was worthwhile... initially scared me to death.

All my years of childhood and marital masturbation were about not getting caught. I'd trained myself to come fast while remaining silent. When I was with a lover, I avoided heavy breathing, barely moved my body, and never broke out in a sweat. In order to have "ladylike orgasms," I always held back because, basically, I was embarrassed about sex. All my fear and embarrassment gradually disappeared after I made a decision to embrace sexuality

That is like deciding that you shouldn't take a Spanish class because you don't already speak the language.

A man with a knife making threats." "Ooooh. Big bad man with big bad knife." Stan Jessup, two ex-wives, six kids, short temper.