Quotes About Fear

understood. Blue highlight | Location: 2,477 I smile at everyone because I'm afraid they hate me on sight, so I try to be extra sweet. Though I don't do it on purpose, I even talk in a softer, higher-pitched voice than I use when I'm talking to myself, or with Marley or Georgia.

They might have chosen to stay home in safety, but the true heroic deed was that they did not, even knowing the danger they faced.

Caving in to fear will be your death,' he once said. 'There is no room for it on the battlefield. Being afraid is healthy, but fear is an enemy.

I used to have nightmares about normal stuff – people chasing me or falling. But then about three years ago they started changing and becoming more…um…real? And harder to forget.

You are more afraid of love than any person I've ever met. It's why you keep testing people pushing them away. Open your eyes.

The worst can always be true," Papa said grimly.

I'd make a terrible surgeon. The fear of blood? Very high on my list.

I wish I had less fear about creating my own parts.

I like to write and draw and paint, and my mom's an artist, so I think I get caught up in thinking, 'I'm afraid it's gonna be bad ' and it's hard for me to start sometimes.

A long boozy dinner in the East Village with people you need to impress. After dinner, more drinks down the street. After those drinks, more drinks at your hotel's rooftop bar. After that, hours on the sofa in your room staring at CNN, shaking, afraid to go to sleep because it will lead to waking up.

I've realized how precious life is. When I was younger, I was more adventurous. I felt invincible. I was game for everything. As a mom, I don't want to get injured because then I can't take care of my kids.

American capitalism needs a steady supply of immigrant labor, but it needs it cheap. By criminalizing the workers, the state helps to keep them uncertain, uneasy, disorganized, and docile. The attack on immigrants, therefore, is both "[p]olitically…an organic expression of nativist hostility and a very useful, rational system of elite-inspired class control"—"the primary product" of which "is… fear.

Weten is verschrikkelijk, maar niet weten is nog veel erger

If I died, would it get me out of my geometry test tomorrow? One could only hope.

The problem, of course, was that turning into a monster was the brighter of my two choices. Choice Number 1: I turn into a vampyre, which equals a monster in just about any human's mind. Choice Number 2: My body rejects the Change and I die. Forever. So the good news is that I wouldn't have to take the geometry test tomorrow.

It's a little hard not to worry when my best friend keeps on dying.

I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.

Courage is fear you ignore.

She wanted to bottle how safe she felt in this moment, so she could drink of it later when loneliness and fear left her parched.

It wasn't the fear that mattered in life. It was the choices made when you were afraid. You were brave because of your fear, not in spite of it.

Love and fear. The most destructive forces on earth. Fear had turned her inside out, love had made her stupid.

Don't worry about dying, Elsa. Worry about not living. Be brave." - Grandpa Wolcott

All this time, Dad had taught Leni how dangerous the outside world was. The truth was that the biggest danger of all was in her own home.

It's scary that people can just stop loving you, you know?