Quotes About Fear

A German walked up to her, his rifle

I'm afraid," I say, surprising myself with the admission. I can't remember admitting such a thing in years, although it has often been true. Four

Of course. Fear is smart until…" He headed for the door, paused as he reached for the knob. "Until what?" He looked back at her. "Until you realize you're afraid of the wrong thing.

When a man resorts to violence, he's scared

Relying on people for comfort had never felt natural to her. The last thing she wanted was to give someone the power to hurt her. Self-preservation was the one thing she'd learned from her mother.

For when you love, you stand to lose so much.

Questo è proprio il tuo modo di evitare le cose. Non si può non fare nulla perché si ha paura di restare feriti.»

Story collectors tend to be superstitious. Knock on wood, black cats, four leaf clovers... that sort of thing. After all, superstitions are the little stories we tell ourselves to make sense of our chaotic world.

She firmly believed that fears were best fought head-on. Courage being fear stuffed with hope and whatnot.

There are seven plots. Shakespeare wrote them better than anyone. If that scares you, leave now." If

THE VIKING TERROR Bitter is the wind to-night, It tosses the ocean's white hair: To-night I fear not the fierce warriors of Norway Coursing on the Irish Sea.

No one is afraid of heights, they're afraid of falling down. No one is afraid of saying I love you, they're afraid of the answer...

Just because you're paranoid, does not mean they're not out to get you.

i have a daughter who reminds me too much of what i used to be, full of love and joy, kissing every person she meets because everyone is good and will do her no harm. and that terrifies me to the point where i can barely function.

Bullies don't like to fight, son. They like to win. Being afraid is normal. The only fight you really have to win is the one against the fear.

Pues yo, cuando leo que los cristianos dicen que la muerte es hermosa y que no hay por qué temerla, me indigno. Me parece algo estúpido y arrogante. La muerte no es hermosa. Es patética y vacía. Y tenemos que aceptarlo.

Tengo muchas ganas de huir y, sin embargo, ya no sé de lo que estoy huyendo.

Human nature can't be denied, sir. The world is so complex that the average person is no longer able to understand it. In the face of that, they can be counted on to retreat into tribalism. Nationalism. People need something to hate to reinforce their own identities. And it's the internal threats—the people they interact with every day—whom they hate and fear most.

America's ability to adapt and reinvent itself had been stripped away by politicians who had trained their constituents to view change with fear and anger.

We've sterilized war, made it easy. Stripped it of the smell of infection and the silence of death. We've bled off the terror and the sorrow. And because of us, the power to wage war now rests in the hands of cowards and hypocrites.

It turned out the international language wasn't love—it was fear.

Monsters looked just like the rest of us. And somehow, that made them even scarier.

People didn't always act the way they should. Not even grown-ups. Sometimes the people who were supposed to protect you from monsters were monsters themselves.