Quotes About Fear

Because maybe, in a way, we didn't leave it behind nearly as much as we might once have thought. Because somewhere underneath, a part of us stayed like that: fearful of the world around us, and no matter how much we despised ourselves for it--unable quite to let each other go.

I saw a new world coming rapidly. More scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a harsh, cruel, world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go.

Fear Can't Shake Our Faith

Halloween is controllable horror.

He wasn't afraid to die. He was afraid to die alone.

That's right. Tomorrow's the day I try to kill you." "Goodnight Daddy." "Goodnight, son.

full of dolls with babyfingers for eyes

shivers that settled in his belly and stayed there like moths in a jar.

Hidden in the pockets of the things that frighten him most is the realization that he doesn't like his mother. Once, he did, but she was different back then, full of love and light. Now she's a ghost playing at being alive, a faded sheet hung upon a coatrack, only there to ensure he doesn't become a ghost too.

Don't you get it? It doesn't matter where I go. Here, back there, France, the North Pole, it doesn't matter. I'll never be safe again. You could build a castle around me and seal it up and I'd still be what I am. And what I am is scared.

I am twelve, John is nine, and we have not yet learned of death. Pain and horror, however, are kindred. They visit us nightly, and take away little pieces of our soul. We live in nightmare and escape during daylight.

It was the kind of weather when bad things happened, Timmy thought, the kind when monsters stepped out of the shadows to bask in the fluorescent light of the storm, drinking the rain and snatching those foolish enough to venture into their domain. And

When I was in high school, my friends and I would drive out into the country to abandoned houses and structures... haha... to ghost hunt. We would scare each other so bad! We would sometimes camp out by the abandoned buildings just to scare ourselves! Such good times. The adrenaline of real fear is so cool!

You know how the sun rises and sets at a certain time each day? In the same way, all of our lives have a day and night. But it's not set like it is with the sun. Some people walk forever in the sunlight, and some people have to walk through the darkest night their whole lives. When people talk about being afraid, what they're afraid of is that their sun will set. That the light they love will fade.

When you wander in the dark too long, you start to see things that aren't really there.

If he had stopped in before he was killed, then the cops would be after Yasuko something fierce.

If we know the truth, there's nothing to be afraid of,

Don't worry. It'll work out somehow." "…Whenever you say that, I get scared things'll actually happen that way." "Oh? Why would you get scared ?

The worse the leaders are, the more afraid they are of an armed populace

Most children would rather preserve the fantasy of a loving connection with their fathers and mothers, at all costs, even if it costs them their self-esteem. When you're three or seven years old, it's less frightening to think of yourself as an unlovable, disappointing screwup than to recognize the fact that you're living with a monster.

The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut.

Plenty of people who survive tragedies end up ambivalent about danger--frightened by it, yet strangely drawn to it.

the horrific fact that our lives and those of the people we love are impermanent and exquisitely fragile, that any of us can cease to exist without warning, that loving anyone, anywhere, at any time, leaves you infinitely vulnerable at every single moment. (20)

I would not want to be a child again, for a child exists in uncertainty and danger. Our flesh and blood, we cannot help but fear for them, as we hope for them to make their way in this life.