Quotes About Fear

Driving east, I'm not sure what we're running from. Evie or the police of Mr. Baxter or the Rhea sisters. Or nobody. Or the future. Fate. Growing up, getting old. Picking up the pieces. As if by running we won't have to get on with our lives.

Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless.

Every takeoff and landing, when the plane banked too much to one side, I prayed for a crash.

We drive west the rest of the night, away from where the sun will come up, trying to outrace it, trying not to see what it's going to show us when we get home.

Miss Rona says nothing is gross. Miss Rona says the only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

This is be­ing loved with­out the risk of lov­ing any­one in re­turn.

Peo­ple used what they called a tele­phone be­cause they hat­ed be­ing close to­geth­er and they were too scared of be­ing alone.

Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.

If she was going to die, Marla didn't want to know about it.

We were all so wor­ried about our worst fears, squeez­ing frogs, eat­ing worms, poi­sons, as­bestos, we nev­er con­sid­ered how bor­ing life would be even if we suc­ceed­ed and got a good job.

If as one people speaking the same language they have begun to do this, then nothing they plan to do will be impossible for them. His words, in His Bible. The Book of Genesis, chapter eleven So our God, our all -powerful God got so scared He scattered the human race across the face of the earth, and shattered their language to heep His children apart. An almighty God this insecure? Who pits his children against each other, to keep them weak. This is the God we're supposed to worship?

He can't live with knowing the future and not being able to save anyone.

The big wet face settles down on top of my head, and I am lost inside. This is when I'd cry. Crying is right at hand in the smothering dark, closed inside someone else, when you see how everything you can ever accomplish will end up as trash.

Ev­ery phone call I get fills me with joy and ter­ror since this could be the case­work­er or the killer.

There are a lot of things we don't want to know about the people we love.

Then I thought, a sex change, she says, a sexual reassignment surgery [...] It was just the biggest mistake I could make. The biggest challenge I could give myself. She says, You have to jump into disaster with both feet.

Brandy says, "The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger." She says, "Don't do what you want." She says, "Do what you don't want. Do what you're trained not to want." It's the opposite of following your bliss. Brandy tells me, "Do the things that scare you the most.

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.

You wake up at SeaTac. I study the people on the laminated airline seat card. A woman floats in the ocean, her brown hair spread out behind her, her seat cushion clutched to her chest. The eyes are wide open, but the woman doesn't smile or frown. In another picture, people calm as Hindu cows reach up from their seats toward oxygen masks sprung out of the ceiling. This must be an emergency. Oh.

Our all-powerful God got so scared He scattered the human race across the face of the earth, and shattered their language to keep His children apart.

After a few fights, you're afraid a lot less.

My point is I know Brandy is maybe probably going to die, but I just can't get into it.

Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown.

There are lots of things we don't want to know about the people we love.