Quotes About Fear

It will also be a little bit scary, the way it always is when we're brave enough to touch the rawest, realest truths. When we have the guts to look directly into the mirror and say Mary Worth thirteen times without pause and see—thrillingly, terrifyingly—that it was never her we had to fear. It was always only us.

You aren't afraid of love. You're afraid of all the junk you've yoked to love. And you've convinced yourself that withholding one tiny word from the woman you think you love will shield you from that junk.

Dear Scared of the Future, There's a crazy lady living in your head.

Not how the kittens suffered during those weeks they were wandering inside the dark building with no way out—though surely there's something there too—but how they saved themselves. How frightened those kittens were, and yet how they persisted. How when two strangers offered up their palms, they stepped in.

Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me. Insisting on the story was a form of mind control, but for the most part, it worked.

You have a bundle on your head, sweet pea. And though that bundle may be impossible for you to see right now, it's entirely visible to me. You aren't torn. You're only just afraid.

Each and every one of those people rose at a moment in their lives - one that is very much like this moment in your life, "suffocated" and at that moment they chose to tell the truth about themselves instead of staying "safe" inside the lie.

Even if you get the dream, you don't know if it will stay true.

Crawling in my skin These wounds, they will not heal Fear is how I fall Confusing what is real

Everyone's sleeping through life Afraid that their questions Just might have answers

We're living inside of our minds Afraid someone just might Hear what we're thinking Quiet Careful of what you might say Cause they'll put you away

I've never done it before—I don't like doing things I've never done before.

Why do you fear touching the earth? Does not the concrete separate you from it enough?

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

GHOST, n. The outward and visible sign of an inward fear. —Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary

Yeah, you're being paranoid all right, pal, Brad concluded, but a little paranoia never hurt anyone. Like that dude said, it ain't paranoia if the bastards really are watchin'.

The reasons he could not continue with a book were usually the same: he would reach a particularly vivid image or a passage that threatened to pull him into another reality, and it frightened him, sometimes even into terror.

We can't turn our backs on this." "I know we can't. It's following us.

Later, Jim thought of the bus the same way he thought of a Harlem whore. Everything is so easy until you step into that dark hallway, and bang.

If you got the chance, you acted. If you sat back and waited and hoped that something good would come along and save you, or fix what you were too frightened or weak or stupid to fix for yourself, you could wait a lifetime and still be trapped.

Kate had attended a Presbyterian church with her family in Norfolk; she'd heard how the God of Moses could flip out and go pretty damn nuts when things didn't turn out His way.

This is not a nice vampire, Claire. It feeds people to its pets." "Well, you know how monsters are." Grinning.

There are people out there with very limited horizons. They wear social blinders. They feel it is better to play it safe, to run scared, and blame the most convenient scapegoat. And that means censorship…and censorship is the attempted murder of our whole culture. Censure replicates itself until it engulfs everything.

He began to cross the street, thinking as he did that everyone was really very foolish to be screaming and yelling, to be afraid. After all, what could the dead do? They weren't moving, were not even speaking