Quotes About Fear

So just ask the question. After all, what's the worst that could happen? "No" isn't really so bad, and "Yes" might take you places you'd never expect.

A boat is always safe in the harbor," she wrote. "But that's not what boats are built for.

Ellen sue always pale, surveyed herself in the glass in her mother's room. She was pale - but brides are always pale, aren't they? She knew she loved Liam, they were right for each other, and yet -- and yet -- she was scared. She was going away from the city she loved and the people who loved her, with Liam, wh wasn't even related to her few months back.

Carrie Fay always says that nothing is really horrible unless it eats away your face.

It was alright to be afraid of something, as long as you didn't let the fear control you.

Take a look at my face. Do you see my expression? Does it scare you? It should, because this is the expression of a woman who's fallen off a horse too many times to put up with more shenanigans of the verbal variety.

Nora's startled intake of breath quickly followed, her eyes huge with horror behind her glasses. "Aisling! Dear god. What have you done?" "You know that badass demon lord who was after her blood?" Jim asked. Nora didn't back up the way Drake's mother did, but she did wrap her arms around herself, as if in protection. She nodded. "Well, guess whose ass is the baddest now?

He might be a dragon, he might be someone whose name instilled fear in other people, but boy howdy, he sure turned my crank.

What do you know about dragons?" "They're big, scaly, four-legged creatures with wings who terrorized small villages until a virgin was offered up as a sacrifice." His grinned again. "I do miss the virgins.

I know I will die in a car crash.

fear darted through her veins like a school of tiny panicked fish.

I suppose you've figured it out by now, boy…why the akuma are attracted to you.

His love is both pure and terrifying at the same time. Will his choice bring him satisfaction?

I don't want us to be together because either of us is afraid. We have to be whole before we can share what we are with each other

But, with time, one has encountered many of the monsters, and one is increasingly less terrified of those still to be met.

The awareness of the damage done by severe mental illness—to the individual himself and to others—and fears that it may return again play a decisive role in many suicides

All I trust is whistling in the dark. from section 3 of "Radiantly Indefensible," The American Poetry Review (vol. 49, no. 3, May/June 2020)

What a tricky balance of safety and risk it is that brings out the best in us?

That's all my grandfather was guilty of, fear, faith in his words, but that was a high crime in her eyes. That's all Jack was guilty of that day, but I've lived with him a good while and I believe I understand him. Sometimes it might take an afternoon or evening of being here in this kitchen alone, thinking, but I can usually come to see his reasons through his ways. And half the job of finding peace is finding understanding. Don't you believe it to be so?

The best way to walk into a nightmare is with a smile.

I was already too afraid to say anything. I can't even properly say my own name,

Anzu: I don't know where I should go either...everybody's like that! We're all scared, but we have to keep moving forward, even if we can't see the road in front of us...holding our heads up high...believing in what lies ahead...even while we sit here, that moment is coming closer every second...We've all got limited time...you know?...I know it's not easy to chase your dreams...But I want to believe that I have a chance. Even if it's just a tiny one...

Dark Bakura [to Ry?gi]: If someone with a weak heart like you tried to solve the puzzle, you'd just end up trapped in a labyrinth of darkness.

Seto Kaiba: A duelist's greatest enemy is nothing less than the monster called fear in our hearts...!