Quotes About Fear

As one got older, cold became one's enemy, as if the grave was teasing already.

Willie took a running start and skidded sideways in wild abandon all the way across. Marla came onto the ice timidly, with small sliding steps. Booboo stood at the edge and barked. "Aren't you scared you'll fall, Willie?" Marla asked. "No," he said. "If I crack my head open, so what? There's nothing inside it.

Do you think I don't worry about you?" "That's not—" "Not the same? Because you are a man and I am a woman?" "No. Because it's one thing for me to make the choice to put my own life in danger and something else entirely when my actions endanger someone else." She touched her fingers to his lips. "I knew what I was letting myself in for when I married you, Devlin." He smiled against her hand. "I'm not sure I did.

Life is full of scary things," he used to tell Kat. "The trick is not to let your fears get in the way of your living. Whatever else you do, Katherine, don't settle for a life half-lived.

Love. I think an angel would fear falling in love with a mortal—someone who could be theirs for only a short time and then would slip away forever." He

Algunos de nosotros dedicamos la vida entera a mantener oculto un secreto, a salvo de quienes intentan entrometerse y atesorándolo como si fuera una perla, solo para acabar descubriendo que se nos escapa cuando menos lo esperamos, revelado por un destello de miedo en los ojos cuando nos pillan desprevenidos, por un dolor repentino, rabia u odio, o por una vergüenza que lo consume todo.

Everyone has secret. Like the oyster with its grain of sand, we bury it deep within, coating it with opalescent layers, as if that could heal our mortal wound. Some of us devote our entire lives to keeping our secret hidden, safe from those who might pry it from us, hoarding it like the pearl, only to discover that it escapes us when we least expect it. revealed by a flash of fear in our eyes when caught unawares, by a sudden pain, a rage or hatred, or an all-consuming shame.

Fear created the first gods in the world.

Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality.

The respected New Yorker staff writer George Packer captured this fear well in an essay about why he does not tweet: "Twitter is crack for media addicts. It scares me, not because I'm morally superior to it, but because I don't think I could handle it. I'm afraid I'd end up letting my son go hungry.

I follow a rule with my life that if something is scary, do it. I've lived everywhere in America, and for me, a big scary thing was living outside the country." After

I follow a rule with my life that if something is scary, do it. I've lived everywhere in America, and for me, a big scary thing was living outside the country.

We set out on the trail of a murderous monster and ended up face to face with a frightened child.

Let them hate us, as long as they fear us.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

Thinking about dark and troublesome things, wondering when they'll come to pay you a visit, turns out to be the very best way to call them to your side.

A cornered animal is almost as dangerous as a wounded one.

Do you fear to lose me? Have I become so essential to you that you will treasure me always and never take me for granted?

I suppose when the things that give you bad dreams live inside you, there's no point in trying to stop them. They're going to come out whenever they decide it is their time. Better just to close your eyes and hold on tight, the faster to get the things you fear to go back to sleep themselves.

But fear is no fit means to measure anyone, for fools have no fear, or so I've heard it said.

I had absolutely no idea what I was about to face. I only knew that, for the first time in my life, I would be all alone.

The desire for peace fills our hands with purpose during the day; the fear of war haunts our dreams at night.

If you carry around somebody else's nightmare, who knows what else your insides might hide or when it might come out?