Quotes About Fear

Me duele como a ti, pero tengo menos miedo de la muerte y más esperanza en la vida.

nada enfría tanto como la amenaza de un embarazo inoportuno.

los mejores, siempre que optemos por el amor en vez del miedo, dice. El amor no se da como una planta silvestre, se cultiva con mucho cuidado.

Respect, compliance, and fear, which are instilled in women from infancy, are so detrimental to us that we don't even know our own power. So great is that power, the patriarchy's goal is to crush it by any means, including the worst forms of violence. These methods are so successful that frequently the most rabid defenders of the patriarchy are women.

Clara los escribió para que me sirvieran ahora para rescatar las cosas del pasado y sobrevivir a mi propio espanto. El primero es un cuaderno escolar de veinte hojas, escrito con una delicada caligrafía infantil. Comienza así: <>

Era broma, claro, porque lo más temible de la vejez no es la soledad, sino la dependencia.

Psst! Father Restrepo! If that story about hell is a lie, we're all fucked, aren't we. . . .

Los soldados aguardaron, cavando trincheras y amontonando sacos de tierra y piedras para formar una barricada, no tanto por la esperanza de protegerse, sino para distraer el miedo

There was no reason to fear the sea, only the living, because, despite their bad reputation, there was no evidence that the dead had ever attacked anyone; if anything, they were naturally timid

Così come quando si viene al mondo, morendo abbiamo paura dell'ignoto. Ma la paura è qualcosa d'interiore che non ha nulla a che vedere con la realtà. Morire è come nascere: solo un cambiamento.

All you regret in the end are the sins you didn't commit.

Había aceptado que sabía muy poco y controlaba mucho menos, pero esa incertidumbre ya no lo asustaba.

This is one of the consequences of the civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy. Even people who knew you became extremely careful about how they related or spoke to you. (page 37)

This was one of the consequences of the civil war. People stopped trusting each other, and every stranger became an enemy.

Poverty is worse than nightmares. You can wake up from nightmares.

Now the red caps scanned the crowd for whoever might be eyeing them displeasingly. And yet if you turned away, this might also be interpreted as a sign of disrespect. It was hard to know how, or where, to look. No one with eyes, in other words, was safe

When I was starting out I was way too scared to ask real directors how to do it or ask for advice, I'm really kind of New Zealand like that.

I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get better and better; that they have to come to a zenith of some kind.

Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.

Whenever you're at a poker table - and you're betting all of your chips - you're worried, you're scared. Is it the right play? Have I thought through all the angles? That's what stinks about life and business in general. If I had to calculate 100% certainty on every deal I did, I literally would do zero deals.

I'm not a gun nut, but go out on my porch. Look around - what's there? Zero, nothing. If I had a problem out here, well, the police would arrive just in time to draw the chalk outline on my floor.

I talk about the politics of love over the politics of fear... Fear is rooted in institutional racism. It's this fear of what's different, fear of the unknown, and looking at something that's different as deficient. It doesn't have to be that way. It doesn't have to be a zero sum game.

I've never done a zip wire. I'm a scaredy-cat.

I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.