Quotes About Fear

People are always looking into the dark. We're afraid of what we might see. It might be the dark outside, it might be the dark of our own souls, but I figure it's better to get caught looking that to never know.

With love comes responsibility and possibility, fear and hope, quests and suffering

It was by Anandamayi Ma: "Be anchored in fearlessness. What is worldly life but fear!

Sometimes, when you are scared, it just helps knowing that someone else is here.

It's a lot easier to understand things once you name them. It's the unknown that mostly freaks me out. I don't know the name of that fear, but I know I've got it, the fear of the unknown.

My excess fat scares me — it's a ticking time bomb to my body.

Seeing Salix in front of that orchestra had inspired me. She had felt all the hard feelings, but she had done the hard thing anyway. She just did it. She was prepared to handle whatever happened. Or maybe not prepared, but at least willing to do it and hope for the best, Feel the fear. Do it anyway.

So we're effectively cut off from the world with a badly injured woman and a homicidal maniac on the loose.

God understands our fears and concerns. And when we bring those to Him in prayer, He exchanges them for His peace, even in the most difficult and trying times.

I love scary movies. I like blood and gore, and I love Halloween movies.

This is my temporary home It's not where I belong Windows and rooms that I'm passing through This is just a stop, on the way to where I'm going I'm not afraid because I know this is my Temporary home

Are you gonna fuel your faith or fuel your fear? I'm all about fueling my faith, especially when it's hard to do so.

And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being loved is intolerable to many.

She was afraid of these things that made her suddenly wonder who she was, and what she was going to be in the world, and why she was standing at that minute, seeing a light, or listening, or staring up into the sky: alone.

Is there anything more heartbreaking than drowning in sight of land? Is there a single one of us who hasn't at least once felt haunted by the fear of slipping away within sight of a safe haven?

That's how it is, he told himself. If you dread something enough, even your worst fears coming true brings comfort.

Even terror needs a yardstick, and surely the yardstick for the unknown is the known?

So you've stopped thinking you're going to die? Oh, I'm more certain of it than ever. But I've stopped being scared.

To Ejinar that cannonball was a monster with a will of its own. It showed him what war was: not a battery that exploded and sent matchstick soldiers fleeing, but a dragon that breathed hot fire on his naked heart.

They all lived so steeped in fear that the losses they had yet to suffer had already consumed them.

They were probably scared of him and so they did what boys do around any object of fear: they went up close, pointed a finger, gave it a nickname, and masked their terror with roaring laughter.

Como marinheiros, todos temíamos o afogamento, mas nenhum de nós alguma vez borrara as calças quando uma tempestade arrancara o mastro e o cordame ou uma onda esmagara a amurada e limpara o convés. Era essa a diferença: o mar respeitava a nossa masculinidade. Os canhões não.

But to close your eyes for the last time on something precious - a hope, a hand reaching out for you - that must be the worst. Even terror needs a yardstick, and surely the yardstick for the unknown is the known?

Death is always around the corner, but often our society gives it inordinate help.