Quotes About Fear

We're all afraid...We were afraid when we met Captain Sham in the grocery store. We were afraid when we thought that you had jumped out the window. We were afraid to give ourselves allergic reactions, and we were afraid to steal a sailboat and we were afraid to make our way across this lake in the middle of a hurricane. But that didn't stop us.

Good God! Blessed Allah! Zeus and Hera! Mary and Joseph! Nathaniel Hawthorne! Don't touch her! Grab her! Move closer! Run away! Don't move! Kill the snake! Leave it alone! Give it some food! Don't let it bite her! Lure the snake away! Here, snakey! Here, snakey snakey!

Reading is one form of escape. Running for your life is another.

Taking one's chances is like taking a bath, because sometimes you end up feeling comfortable and warm, and sometimes there is something terrible lurking around that you cannot see until it is too late and you can do nothing else but scream and cling to a plastic duck.

waiting at the bus stop. Only then did he feel safe. He turned abruptly

For fear is so unwelcome that it comes only in disguise, and guilt is its favourite one.

she still had that fundamental insecurity that one bout of poverty can inflict for a lifetime, and no amount of money remedy.

Perhaps all fear is worse than reality, just as all hope is better than fulfilment.

Communist," he repeated. "You may have heard someone in a concentration admit to being a murderer and many agreed that they had been spies. A prisoner would sometimes even confess to having at one time - for a short while - been a Jew. But a communist, no. No one would ever let that word pass their lips.

Positive, healthy, loving relationships in your twenties... I don't know if anyone would disagree with it: I think they're the exception, not the norm. People are either playing house really aggressively because they're scared of what an uncertain time it is, or they're avoiding commitment altogether.

I have an internal protectiveness where it's like, if it comes to just me, as frightened as I am of losing someone I love or things going sour or simply being alone, there is a dark place in my brain where I'm like, It could happen and I'm okay, I'm prepared.

My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.

Stephen Hawking is getting a divorce. That's scary. If the smartest guy in the world can't figure out women, we're screwed.

An intruder broke into Mike Tyson's hotel room in Las Vegas while he was sleeping but got out before Tyson could get to him. I don't know what's scarier. Having someone breaking into your room while you're sleeping or breaking into someone else's room and finding out the guy is Mike Tyson.

So if she was still alive after everything, what was she living for? To be terrified of life outside her front door? To hide behind a computer screen and miss out on the best gifts she'd been given?

Euphemisms chosen by fear are a covenant with hypocrisy and will immediately destroy the poem and eventually destroy the poet.

Godzilla— A skyscraper-sized, radioactively mutated lizard. Grocery

To swear off making mistakes is very easy. All you have to do is to swear off having ideas.

When we give ourselves in love we become our most vulnerable. We are never safe. We become open to disappointment and hurt.

The greatest risk is to risk nothing at all

The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The Person who risks nothing, has nothing and becomes nothing.

Courage is the capacity to comfront what can be imagined....

The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.