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Quotes About Fear

I was lying on the ground. I could feel my blood mixing with the dirt. And Reese said, 'You can stay up here and fuck the grizzly bears, puss.' And the goddamned thing is, when I finally was able to stand up, I was more scared of imaginary grizzly bears than I was of Reese. Although I'm sure a grizzly bear has better table manners. I just motivated myself the hell away, as fast as I could crawl. I'm not even sure there are grizzly bears around here, anyway.
~ Chet Williamson
What happened?" "The coffee table tried to kill us," Marley whispered. "What did you do?" "We ducked," Tanner said. "This sounds like the bad trips my patients on drugs describe," Althea said.
~ Chet Williamson
How did I wind up with Reese? Maybe because I'd had a lot of guys who were all talk and nothing beyond. You know—if some junkie tried to knife us in a movie theater, my boyfriend would try to talk it over with the guy. Civilized behavior. And I'd be lying there with my trachea in my lap.
~ Chet Williamson
Dark is dark in the darkness.
~ Chet Williamson
This is an age when men hide their deepest fears and instincts behind a mask of rationality. Mankind has become a herd of sheep which does not believe in the existence of wolves.
~ Chet Williamson
Zane brought her hand to his chest, over his heart and she felt the strong rapid beat through his shirt. "Feel that?" His throat worked as he swallowed. "It would break if I fell for you and anything happened that would take you away from me." --Zane to Willow in 'The Edge of Sin' in the Real Men Last all Night anthology
~ Cheyenne McCray
As pessoas têm medo das mudanças. Eu tenho medo que as coisas nunca mudem.
~ Chico Buarque
On Twitter we get excited if someone follows us. In real life we get really scared and run away.
~ Internet meme
I was still shy and afraid to talk, for fear I'd say the wrong thing and make a clown of myself. I even remember a writer asking me for a 'quote' and I was so green I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was a soft drink.
~ Joe DiMaggio
Most sports need only one ball — skydiving takes both!
~ Author Unknown
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
~ Bernard Shaw, 1896
Love is a four-letter word.
~ Author unknown, 1920s
Word is a four-letter word.
~ Author unknown, 1970s
In the country! Oh, in the country I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time.
~ Sydney Smith
[M]y theory... there was a crack in Pansay's head and a little bit of the Dark World came through and pressed him to death.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Bram Stoker, Dracula, 1897
~ ...that soul-wail...
Some of the United States Senators seem to fear they are not popular enough to risk election by popular vote.
~ Philadelphia Press, 1906
The mere existence of nuclear weapons by the thousands is an incontrovertible sign of human insanity.
~ Isaac Asimov
Being without food, fearful for one's life, the bombings — all made me so appreciative of safety, of liberty.
~ Audrey Hepburn, 1990
Courage in war is safer than cowardice.
~ Proverb
The weather today is increasing concern followed by full-blown dread.
~ Chuck Palahniuk, Diary, 2003
The greatest mistake you can make in this life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
~ Elbert Hubbard
Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.
~ Swedish Proverb
Worry bankrupts the spirit.
~ Terri Guillemets