Quotes About Fear

everything in the world is a boxing match in your heart, between Boldness and Not-Boldness. You let them holler inside you and wallop each other with Arguments For and Against. Then you end by betting on one or the other and that's how things get decided." He thought about it for a moment. "If you're my father you bet

His fear made her stronger; she could be brave for both of them.

I always die at the end," he whispers, and he is afraid now, his hands shaking. "It is always like this. It is never easy".

Death stands behind every bride, every groom.

Shadow Physicks are fearfully complicated. A. Amblygonite has no idea.

Surely you didn't think deathless meant dickless.

being in love can be frightening,and sometimes its easier to fight it than it is to face it.

And I was – still am – in a state of permanent terror that the pancreatitis may return. I still have nightmares about hospital and it is two years since my last admission. Those nights in A&E haunt me, and will probably do so forever, with their brutality and pain. No wonder I took a bit more, then a bit more, until it all spiralled out of control. No wonder I tried to run from those damaging memories into the arms of mother opiate. Charlie

With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.

Don't make me go, Mummy. Please don't make me go.

Arga barn är rädda barn, och de skriker för att bli hörda.

You've made a god of your fear and jealousy, Sister. For what is a god but what we go to again and again?

Never is a man more ready to accept the Lord than when he faces his own mortality.

She wasn't afraid. There had been so many more things to fear in life. Knowing she was loved by many people, even if they couldn't always be with her, was not one of them.

He who risks nothing has nothing.

Blade Runner 2049 is an example of science fiction as magical thinking: whites fear that all the sins they committed against black and brown people will come back to them tenfold, so they fantasize their own fall as a preventative measure to ensure that the white race will never fall.

Acting allows me the freedom to let go, to be in the moment, to be spontaneous. I no longer have the fear of losing, of failure.

Il ne faut pas avoir peur de regarder les choses en face. La vie est le résultat de la malpropreté. Si la nature avait été bien tenue, la vie ne serait jamais apparue. La vie est née de quelques vagues saletés au fond d'une flaque d'eau boueuse. La vie, donc l'homme. Il n'y a vraiment pas de quoi être fier.

We all get lost once in a while, sometimes by choice, sometimes due to forces beyond our control. When we learn what it is our soul needs to learn, the path presents itself. Sometimes we see the way out but wander further and deeper despite ourselves; the fear, the anger or the sadness preventing us returning. Sometimes we prefer to be lost and wandering, sometimes it's easier. Sometimes we find our own way out. But regardless, always, we are found.

This is how an owl must look to a mouse in that last second before the talons sink into the flesh.

O let it be enough what thou hast done, When spotted deaths ran arm'd through every street, With poison'd darts, which not the good could shun, The speedy could outfly, or valiant meet. The living few, and frequent funerals then, Proclaim'd thy wrath on this forsaken place: And now those few who are return'd agen Thy searching judgments to their dwellings trace. From Annus Mirabilis, The Year of Wonders, 1666, by John Dryden

Who wouldn't be in a state of denial when your next-door neighbor suddenly starts shooting at you, casually and without remorse, like you're some kind of unwanted introduced species.

when every day was tainted by the foul breath of a fear that could not be faced forthrightly, yet could not be ignored.

But as I have resolved to set down a full account here, so I must begin with an honest accounting of myself. That morning, I was afraid.