Quotes About Fear

Fear is not only a leaden foe, but a liar as well. It was not as bad as I thought it would be, sitting there in a London department store on an ordinary Saturday.

People will always distrust what they don't understand. And what they distrust, they cannot

Maybe being brave is different from being unafraid. If you're not afraid, what is there to be brave about?

Sometimes fear of a thing is worse than the thing itself.

I'd been too afraid my tears would christen it with my sorrows. I wanted nothing about the fire to exist in my

We were both shattered. We were broken people who longed to be whole. We thought it was love that was driving us to do what we did. But it wasn't love. It was fear. We were both too afraid of ending up unwanted and unneeded.

That's what we did, didn't we, Audrey? We learned to be brave when it was easier to be afraid.

The risk in giving love and receiving love is better than the safety of not loving at all.

love and fear can sometimes feel the same, but each will lead a person to take different actions. When a decision h as to be made, fear usually motivates me to choose what is best for me, whereas love motivates me to choose what is best for another person. Fear urges me to hang on, white knuckled, to what is mine, while love can actually lead me to let go.... when you hold something you love tightly to your chest for fear of losing it, you actually risk crushing it against you.

Fear is worse than pain, I think. Pain is centralized, identifiable, and wanes as you wait. Fear is a heaviness you can't wriggle out from under.

the will to stand with it and start walking. Fear does not start to fade until you take the step that you think you can't.

People will always distrust what they don't understand.

Maybe being brave is different from being unafraid. If you're not afraid, what is there to be brave about?

He was worried I might one day naively mix laundry bleach with ammonia and he wanted to make sure I understood some things cannot be stirred together into the same pot because they will react in ways that can hurt someone. It is that way with fear and ignorance, I think.

The gaping unknown

Where were you all this time? she said. Where have you been? I guess far away. Yes you were. Too far away. They sat in silence. You know you frightened me a little, she said. At the beginning. No. You did. He smiled at that. You looked as if you didnt anyone, she said. But this are the ones who need the most, he said. Don't you know that? I do know, she said. Too late.

The nearer I get to death, the more alive I feel. The more I consider my own mortality, the less afraid I am of dying. And the older I get, the more readily I can put myself aside.

Although I have always rejected this fear of the other, and the racism that it inevitably fuels, I have learned from experience that it is a deeply rooted need in the human psyche. at the slightest provocation we will put distance between ourselves and those we cannot or do not want to understand

If Obama was the American dream—"Nowhere else on earth would my story be possible"—Trump is the American nightmare.

I don't like hiking with convicts carrying machetes.

I would argue that it might be easier to endure loneliness than to endure the idea that you might disappear.

The books burned while most of us were waiting to see if we were about to witness the end of the world.

The fire in the library was colorless.

idea of being forgotten is terrifying. I fear not just that I, personally, will be forgotten, but that we are all doomed to being forgotten—that the sum of life is ultimately nothing; that we experience