Quotes About Fear

Everyone knows they're going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.

I do not want to die," she whispered. "You will not die." "I want to be with you." "You are.

You said it so innocently, so matter-of-factly, that it robbed us of our breath. And while we recovered to offer the standard adult response, that love doesn't care about sickness or health, inside we were trembling, because we saw in you something, with your disease, that we were terrified of seeing in ourselves. Acceptance.

Everyone knows they're going to die, he said again, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.

People are only mean when they're threatened

I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the point of tears, but we don't let those tears come because we are not supposed to cry. 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 do you do when the dead return? It is the thing people most fear- yet, in some cases, most desire

People are only mean when they're threatened

when you get threatened, you start looking out only for yourself. You start making money a god. It is all part of this culture.

If you hold back on the emotions - if you don't allow yourself to go all the way through them - you you can never get to being detached, you're too busy being afraid...But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely.

I thought about how often this was needed in everyday life. How we feel lonely, sometimes to the point of tears, but we don't let those tears come because we are not supposed to cry. 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.

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

Morrie talked about his most fearful moments, when he felt his chest locked in heaving surges or when he wasn't sure where his next breath would come from. These horrifying times, he said, and his first emotions were horror, fear, anxiety. But once he recognized the feel of those emotions, their texture, their moisture, the shiver down the back, the quick flash of heat that crosses your brain - then he was able to say, Okay,. This is fear. Step away from it. Step away.

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.

Man's instinct is to find a way to live, but who wants to be the last to die?

Todo mundo sabe que se va a morir, pero nadie se lo cree.

Instead, I buried myself in accomplishments, because with accomplishments, I believed I could control things, I could squeeze in every last piece of happiness before I got sick and died...

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

And you will be scared again. All your life. You must conquer this. Face them and pretend that aren't there

Man alone measures time. Man alone chimes the hour. And, because of this, man alone suffers a paralysing fear that no other creature endures. A fear of time running out.

On the other hand, 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.

Loneliness was like an ogre hovering over those activities

Man searches for courage in drink, but it is not courage that he finds, it is fear that he loses.

If you hold back on the emotions--you can never get being detached, you're too busy being afraid. But by throwing yourself into these emotions, by allowing yourself to dive in, all the way, over your head even, you experience them fully and completely. Wash yourself with the emotion. It won't hurt you. It will only help. You let go, let the tears flow, feel it completely.