Quotes About Fear

Man searches for courage in drink, but it is not courage that he finds, it is fear that he loses. A drunken man may step off a cliff. That does not make him brave, just forgetful.

People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does

The only thing scarier than leaving a small town is never leaving it at all.

I don't want to leave the world in a state of fright. I want to know what's happening, accept it, get to a peaceful place, and let go

You're afraid of the pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.

I snicker, but the idea is momentarily appealing. Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me wants to go desperately. Tension of opposites.

C. S. Lewis, the man who wrote the Narnia books you so loved, once said it is easy to trust a rope as long as you're using it to wrap a box. But when you're clinging to it over a deadly precipice, it's something else entirely.

Napoleon once dismissed religion as 'what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.' Meaning, without the fear of God--or literally the hell we might have to pay--the rest of us would just take what we wanted.

And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralyzing fear that no other creatures endures. A fear of time running out

Or how we feel a surge of love for a partner but we don't say anything because we're frozen with the fear of what those words might do to the relationship.

What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.

Worry is something you create.

He nodded toward the window with the sunshine streaming in. You see that? You can go out there, outside, anytime. You can run up and down the block and go crazy. I can't do that. I can't go out. I can't run. I can't be out there without fear of getting sick. But you know what? I appreciate that window more than you do.

People are only mean when they're threatened and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about loosing them. 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.

Everyone knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it

Two waves in the ocean are talking to each other, the front wave tells the second wave he's frightened because he is about to shore-crash and cease to exist, but the second wave tells him that he is not, as he is part of the ocean

Heaven . . . is the same feeling. . . . No fear. No dark. When you know you are loved . . . that's the light.

Everybody knows they're going to die, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently. - Morrie

Morrie closed his eyes. I know, Mitch. You mustn't be afraid of my dying. I've had a good life, and we all know it's going to happen. I maybe have four or five months.

Fear is how you lose your life . . . a little bit at a time. . . . What we give to fear, we take away from . . . faith.

People are only mean when they're threatened," he said later that day, "and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does. Even people who have jobs in our economy are threatened, because they worry about losing them. 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.

Maybe that's worse, not letting ourselves be loved. Because we're too afraid of giving ourselves to someone we might lose.

Part of me is scared of leaving school. Part of me wants to go so desperately.

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 pain, you're afraid of the grief. You're afraid of the vulnerability that loving entails.