Quotes About Fear

her nerves turning her body into a trampoline and her mind into a whirlpool. The trick was waiting through the panic phases and then shoring up her strength when the fear lightened up.

A veces hacer lo correcto era aterrador, pero el corazón la había llevado hasta allí y pensaba seguir adelante con sus planes...

Horror flooded his face. "Oh, Christ!

Loving someone gave them power over you, and she wasn't ready to do that just yet.

The last goddamn thing I ever wanted was to fall in love. But you know what? I did anyway. I fell in love with you.

She does love me. She's scared.

All you've done is keep me at arm's length the whole time we've known each other because you're afraid.

You're afraid to get close to me.

At first I thought it was a fear of failure. Now I think you're afraid to succeed.

I'm scared Gavin. What if I can't do this?

You're afraid of me.

I can't help it. You scare me.

Are you holding on to me because you think I'm going to disappear?

I've purposely set up my life to be alone so I won't get hurt.

You can't win unless you try to win, but you can lose by trying not to lose.

Her hand gripped his, and even amid the fear and danger he marveled at the feeling that came with the contact. If we die holding hands in this way, will we enter the next dream together?

it is well that war is so terrible, because otherwise people would grow too fond of it

I am always thinking about losing money as opposed to making money.

The only time they appear human is when you have a knife at their throats. The instant you remove it, they fall back into animality. Obscenity.

Everyone in prison has an ideal of violence, murder. Beneath all relationships between prisoners is the ever-present fact of murder. It ultimately defines our relationship among ourselves.

Don't touch me, I'm full of snakes.

Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.

The more ups and downs, the more joy I feel. The greater the fear, the greater the happiness I feel.

But I remember seeing a mess of leaves suddenly go skittering in the wind and into the creek, then floating rapidly down the creek towards the sea, making me feel a nameless horror even then of 'Oh my God, we're all being swept away to sea no matter what we know or say or do