Quotes About Fear

Like when she told me in all of human history, three things never went out of style. Graffiti, keep-out signs, and statues of ourselves. She'd use this rule to explain human nature: we desecrate in protest, we're afraid of people taking our stuff, and we worship ourselves.

Fooling the world, Brum would say, has always been possible, because people think they're smarter than they really are. A confidence that, ironically, stems from their fear of seeming stupid.

You don't trust people because they're a sure bet or even a good risk. You trust them because the risk that you'll lose them is worse than the risk that they'll hurt you.

Everything you desire is always just outside your comfort zone, dear boy. If it wasn't you would already possess it, would you not?

I don't miss my father, but without his shackles to strain against, the world is terrifying and vast. I have lost a kind of purpose, a reason to prove myself.

Tobias wasn't entirely sure what happened next. All of a sudden everyone was in motion, and Tobias hit the carpet behind the couch face down with one arm wrenched behind his back. "Get the light, Phan! Light!" Noah barked, planting a knee in Tobias' back to keep him down. Tobias sighed, fighting the instinct to move; Noah would break his arm. "This really isn't my night," he said. ~ after Tobias sneaks up on Noah & Phan in the dark while they're watching a horror flick

While "Irwin lookalikes" hassle animals on the screen, they "unwittingly [record] our dysfunctional relationship with [nature], teaching our children to both fear and subjugate creatures already pushed to the brink of extinction.

Graphic footage of shark attacks and feeding frenzies might make for thrilling entertainment, but they actively damage public sentiment toward animals whose very survival is in question. By misleading audiences and inspiring fear and terror, these television programs are harming the conservation movement.

Fear runs our lives a lot of the time. You can face it head-on, or you can hide in your bunker.

You got a gun, you don't have to work out.

Anything you can suck at should make you nervous.

I live in a neighborhood so bad that you can get shot while getting shot.

Often in our emotional, spiritual, and financial economy, the problem is that we adopt a view of scarcity rather than abundance. We fear we will not have enough money, insight, or even love to share with others.

You know people say the dead look peaceful, like they're sleeping? I guess it depends on how you die, because Eric's eyes were open. He was looking right at me, and he was scared. My cousin died in terrible pain.

The sunken place, right? That's where I was. The place where nobody can touch you or hear you scream.

Back then, I was obsessed with dying, because I secretly wanted to live forever.

The cries from within the apartment were also unnaturally intensified, seeming to bore their way into the soft tissue of his hypersensitive brain, like hungry maggots.

Walter and Bell glanced at each other, neither one relishing the idea of being the brave hero who found the escaped tiger in the bedroom.

There was no tiger. No intruder. No signs of a break-in.

I..." She clutched at Walter's shirtfront. "I don't know! There was no one! No one!

Do you mean you were attacked from behind?

In my dream I can," he said. "In my dream, I have hands. With claws.

Where is he?" Bell asked. "Do you think something might have happened to him?" Walter asked anxiously. "Latimer? Or maybe...

Had the killer gotten to Iverson somehow? Was yet another person dead because of them?