Quotes About Fear

My constant companions were fears, not God. I convinced myself he was simply on vacation, out carrying someone else on that beach with all the footprints. My heart had shriveled, and my soul was as wrinkled

Please, God, she prayed. Help me to hear him and let him just say what he needs to say. Help me not be afraid.

Half of the fear of life is not knowing something that you wished you knew, and the other half is knowing it.

A black pit bull barreled against the fence, jaws dripping with saliva, viciously barking like Old Yeller after the hydrophobia kicked in.

When you give voice to your fear, when you expose it, as vulnerable as that makes you, you give others the same permission. You give them courage to believe there's more to life than cowering. You give hope. And my guess is, when you tackle your inner fears, you will eventually tackle what's holding you back from who God intended you to be. Your fears lead you to who you really are.

Yeah, right, I thought. God hadn't asked me if I wanted to go deeper, and thank you very much, I liked the shallows. It's easier to play when there's no current. In the middle you lose your footing; you lose control. You lose.

The more dangerous life is, the better. Scary equals important, right?

Ur-Fascism grows up and seeks consensus by exploiting and exacerbating the natural fear of difference. The first appeal of a fascist or prematurely fascist movement is an appeal against the intruders. Thus Ur-Fascism is racist by definition.

Scratch the surface of the survivalist cult in the United States and you expose terrified white supremacists.

It is important for us to realize that emphasis on conformity and the fear of spontaneous living can have an effect almost as devastating as the totalitarian's deliberate assault on the mind . . . . Trained into conformity the child may well grow up into an adult who welcomes with relief the authoritarian demands of a totalitarian leader. It is the welcome repetition of an old pattern that can be followed without investment of a new emotional energy.14

Five minutes before I went on, I looked at my manager and said, I'm going to get booed. I know it's going to happen. And you're responsible because you put me on here. It was horrible. I've never been more hurt in my entire life.

So when I look in the mirror I'm driven by both vanity and fear.

A stand-up's job is to hold the mirror up to society and to look at what we're afraid of. That's why we had shows like 'All in the Family' and 'The Jeffersons.' We made fun of ourselves then.

Well, as a kid I did all the Bloody Mary games and using a mirror to scare yourself.

I don't know about anyone else, but I got really scared looking at myself in the mirror when I got my hair cut for a role.

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

We all have our ways of handling fear and managing trying; jumping in or climbing down, a direct approach or a delay, joyful or miserable, a spirit of adventure, or God help me, get this thing over with.

Nothing need be apprehended from this miserable adventurer.

I don't like leaving work behind. I hate the idea that something might be happening on the drawing board at home that I am going to miss.

Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.

I remember being scared to death of horror movies as a kid. Sometimes, I missed the whole movie because I was so scared and couldn't look.

We have become used to the missiles being among us. We don't think about what they can do.

I see some people stay in one place because it's convenient or it's comfortable. But they're missing out on their passion.

So much of 'Jaws' was amazing because the mind filled in what was missing.