Quotes About Fear

There is the darkness of a moonless night out of doors, and there is the darkness of a house with its shutters closed and the lamps quenched. There is the darkness of sleep, relieved by the bright images of dreams. But no darkness is as complete, as blanketing, as terrifying as the utter darkness of underground.

Best face your fears straightaway; putting things off only makes them harder.

You should be brave. Running away isn't brave. The brave thing, the hard thing is to tell the truth. To face up to whatever it is.

Everyone has responsibility for his own actions. But sometimes we can lose ourselves. Out of fear or sadness or guilt, we become less than we should be. It can be hard to find the courage to move on.

It came to me that it was possible to be afraid of your own fear, and that such a phenomenon was utterly ridiculous.

At some point, we'll both have to risk telling the truth.

It is no wonder women have a reputation for patience which is not shared by men. We spend so much of our time waiting. Waiting for a child to be born. Waiting for a man to come home, from the fields, from the sea, from battle. Waiting endlessly for news. That can be the worst, as fear bites deep at the vitals, and seizes the heart with chill fingers. The mind can make strange and horrible pictures, while you are waiting.

There's a difference between being afraid and letting people see that you are

Not so easy. Give your heart to someone and you spend your life in fear of losing them. In terror of seeing them hurt.

But when Kaname asked: Would you like to separate, then? Misako answered: Would you? They knew that divorce was the solution, and yet neither had the courage to propose it, each was left face to face with his own weakness.

I wanted to look calm, and to let them know that they could not demoralize us. I had no fear or sense of humiliation, only contempt for them. What had turned people into monsters? What

Like many Chinese, I was incapable of rational thinking in those days. We were so cowed and contorted by fear and indoctrination that to deviate from the path laid down by Mao would have been inconceivable. Besides, we had been overwhelmed by deceptive rhetoric, disinformation, and hypocrisy, which made it virtually impossible to see through the situation and to form an intelligent judgment.

I had experienced privilege as well as denunciation, courage as well as fear, seen kindness and loyalty as well as depths of human ugliness. Amid suffering, ruin and death, I had above all known love and the indestructible human capacity to survive and to pursue happiness.

It is hard for one who has not had a similar experience to imagine the terror that still gripped Taeko and Mrs. Tamaki and Hiroshi, so intense a terror that afterwards it seemed almost funny.

You don't want to let go, but don't want to be hurt, either. It's not a great place to be but what can I tell you?

You will face many dangers on your journey, but fear not, for I have brought you this for your protection. In this box are all the words I know,' he said. 'Most of them you will never need, some you will use constantly, but with them you may ask all the questions which have never been answered and answer all the questions which have never been asked. All the great books of the past and all the ones yet to come are made with these words. With them there is no obstacle you cannot overcome.

If you can't sublimate your fear of mortality into sex with your best friend, what's it there for?

Defeat begins with the fear that one had lost.

Basically, there is nothing new in the behavior of monsters, for the monster himself is nothing more than an invention of his victims.

Defeat begins with the fear that one has lost.

Inima o luase razna! S?lta ca un iepure speriat, ca ÅŸi cum n-ar fi putut s? stea în culcuÅŸul ei. P?rea gata s? se furiÅŸeze oriunde - în gur?, în urechi sau chiar în intestine.

Opravdu straÅ¡ná situace je asi ta, o níž si uvÄ›domujeme, že je straÅ¡ná.

When he actually began working, for some reason he did not resist it as much as he thought he would. What could be the cause of this change? he wondered. Was it the fear that the water would be discontinued? Was it because of his indebtedness to the woman, or something about the character of the work itself? Work seemed something fundamental for man, something which enabled him to endure the aimless flight of time.

AÅŸa se spune, înfrangerea începe cu teama de a fi înfrant.