Quotes About Fear

Courage could arise from an ability to let go of fear for your own life and limbs.

They moved me and scared me. I replayed the tapes and nailed the source of my fear. The women sounded smug. They were entrenched and content in their victimhood.

Fear and I played peek-a-boo - it always seemed to grab my balls and twist just when it felt like something inside me could banish all the bullshit forever.

Serial killers were hopped-up eyeball fuckers and ravaged inner children. They were scary in the moment and as dismissible as an empty box of popcorn.

Twenty-nine years old and on her third masters degree because she's afraid to go out and meet the world. Sad, isn't it?" Mal sighed. "Tragic.

It was written that I should be loyal to the nightmare of my choice—

Mini-Manson" case

I was afraid of all girls, most boys and selected male and female adults. My fear derived from my apocalyptic fantasy apparatus. I knew that all things went chaotically bad. My empirical training in chaos was unassailably valid.

I had to talk to people. All people scared me.

I was terrified because the good guys were really the bad guys.

Elmer was scared. He ran a call-girl ring. He peddled flesh to the L.A. elite. He made biz calls from the Vice squadroom.

He said that only stupid men love danger, but you love danger and you're not stupid.

In short, the magnifying influence of fear began to set at naught the calculations of reason, and to render those who should have remembered their manhood, the slaves of the basest passions.

Red Riding Hood screamed, not out of alarm at the wolf's apparent tendency toward cross-dressing, but because of his willful invasion of her personal space.

But love is different for every person. For some it's hate, for some it's joy, for some it's fear, for some it's jealousy, for some it's torture, for some it's peace. For some it's everything.

And loss of control is always the source of fear. It is also, however, always the source of change.

She made me feel better than I have ever felt, better than I imagined I could feel, and it scared me, it scared me to the point of paralysis.

Fear, he said, ran all of our lives. Fear, he said, after religion, was the most destructive force in the world.

There is one thing. One thing that haunts me from page one to page twenty-two. I have never spoken of it. I have never told another person

I know people might think I'm strong or tough, but I'm really not. I'm a sheep in wolf's clothing.

I can deal with my life on those terms. It is not complicated unless I make it so. It is not difficult inless I allow it to be. A second is no more tha a second, a minute is no more tha a minute, a day no more than a day. They pass. All things and all time wil pass. Don't force or fear, don't control or lose control. Din't fight and don't stop fighting. Embrace and endure. If you embrace, you will endure.

No one wants to die alone, even though that's how it happens to all of us, even though we pretend there's some other ways.

When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.

Why are you scared, John?' 'Because I know I'm not better.' 'Why do you think that?' 'Because I know it in my heart.