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Quotes About Fear

În acea clip?, Egor se deÈ™tept? brusc. ÎÈ™i amintea cu o extraordinar? precizie fiecare am?nunt al visului. Nu mai era însp?imântat. Toat? fiinÈ›a lui era r?v??it? ca dup? un mare efort.
~ Mircea Eliade
Îmi era peste putin?? s? cred c? Ileana va mai putea iubi vreodat?. M? îndoiesc dac? voi mai putea iubi eu...Dar viaÈ›a curge totuÈ™i înainte. ?i m? sperie întunericul în care s-a topit Ileana, viaÈ›a asta, necunoscut? mie, care o înghite...
~ Mircea Eliade
One night I heard my dad say to my mom: I can't help but think of the good times we're having now as being painful memories later on. And my mom saying, c'mon now honey.
~ Miriam Toews
Between 2005-2009, more than 300 girls and women of Molotschna were made unconscious and attacked in their own beds. On average, an attack occurred every three or four days. Finally, Leisl Neustandter forced herself to stay awake night after night until she caught a young man prying open her bedroom window, holding a jug of belladonna spray in one hand. Leisl and her adult daughter wrestled the man to the ground and tied him up with baler twine.
~ Miriam Toews
Mom, she says, I dreamt that you had died, and in my dream I said, But if you are dead then there is nobody to catch me if I fall. And then in my dream you came back from death, you were tired, your feet hurt, but you were happy to come back one last time, and you said: Then don't fall.
~ Miriam Toews
several of the people we love are people we also fear.
~ Miriam Toews
Algunes de les persones que estimem també són persones de qui tenim por.
~ Miriam Toews
La Mariche explica que a la Mejal li ha vingut l'atac arran del pensament que les dones podrien fer el seu propi mapa. No es tracta d'un temor conscient d'això de fer un mapa, precisa, sinó del que implica la qüestió: que som mestresses del nostre propi destí. Que ens n'anirem cap a un espai desconegut.
~ Miriam Toews
When she looked at me she saw a child surrounded by flames, screaming. And that must have been hard for her.
~ Miriam Toews
Everyone knows they re going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.
~ Mitch Albom
People are only mean when they are threatened.
~ Mitch Albom
Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardness is confused with laying them down.
~ Mitch Albom
All I was afraid of is saying good-bye.
~ Mitch Albom
If you hold back on the emotions--if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them--you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid.
~ Mitch Albom
Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.
~ Mitch Albom
Take any emotion—love for a woman, or grief for a loved one, or what I'm going through, fear and pain from a deadly illness. If you hold back on the emotions—if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them—you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.
~ Mitch Albom
What do people fear most about death? I asked the reb. Fear? he thought for a moment. 'Well, for one thing, what happens next? Where do we go? Is it what we imagined? That's big. Yes. But there's something else. What else? He leaned forward. Being forgotten, he whispered.
~ Mitch Albom
Adam hid in the Garden of Eden. Moses tried to substitute his brother. Jonah jumped a boat and was swallowed by a whale...Man likes to run from God. It's a tradition.
~ Mitch Albom
Things change when you're not in danger anymore.
~ Mitch Albom
Turn on the faucet. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help. If you let the fear inside, if you pull it on like a familiar shirt, then you can say to yourself, "All right, it's just fear, I don't have to let it control me. I see it for what it is.
~ Mitch Albom
You can be a mama's boy, be a daddy's boy, but you can't be both. So you cling to the one you think you might lose.
~ Mitch Albom
Yet all around you, timekeeping is ignored. Birds are not late. A dog does not check its watch. Deer do not fret over passing birthdays. Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creatures endures. A fear of time running out.
~ Mitch Albom
People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does...And when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.
~ Mitch Albom
What if I lose you? You can't lose your mother, Charley.
~ Mitch Albom