Quotes About Fear

Sex is not trust. Sleep is trust. And trust is difficult for me.

He thought maybe she was having second thoughts. Rightly so, considering what he planned to do to her.

Repeat the experiment?" Nina echoed. "We almost got ourselves killed today. If you want to repeat that, you can count me out.

The first thing I did was lock myself in the bathroom and unwind my binders. I was moist and sour from adrenaline and fear sweat and I felt like I would die if I didn't rinse off. There was no soap and the rusty, lukewarm water dribbled out of the showerhead like blood from the wrist of a reluctant suicide. Still, it was better than nothing.

He found himself struck by a sudden fear that something might happen to him in the future that would destroy his memory. Some kind of disease or mental breakdown.

Walter suddenly became aware of a strange chill seeping into his lower body.

But this vast empty room was the loneliest, most awful place he had ever been. Its

But she wasn't there, leaving the unarmed Walter alone and unprotected.

What if he did just that? What if he went through the gate?

He knew he would be crazy to take that kind of risk, but he'd also be crazy not to.

He took a sloshing step closer, fingers less than in inch from the undulating opening. That's when he heard a terrified scream.

Ich fürchtete das Schlimmste, nicht, weil ich den Plan der Griechen Zug um Zug durchschaute, sondern weil ich den haltlosen Übermut der Troer sah. Ich schrie, bat, beschwor und redete in Zungen.

Was man sich lange und oft genug denkt, verliert allen Schrecken. Gedanken nutzen sich ab wie Münzen, die von Hand zu Hand gehn, oder wie Vorstellungen, die man sich immer wieder vors innere Auge ruft.

Does Medea still have the power to retaliate, or has she been rendered harmless? Fear, admiration, envy, lust and hatred waltz hand-in-hand, for whatever else she is, Medea is not a nobody: beautiful, high-ranking, reckless, intelligent and skilled, she cannot be simply dismissed.

I've seen what is interred with them so that they can get through the journey into the realm of the dead, and no doubt also so that they can buy their way in, gold, jewelry, food, even horses, sometimes servants as well; since then, I can see this whole glorious Corinth only as the fleeting reflection of that eternal necropolis, and it seems to me that they reign here too, the dead. Or what reigns is the fear of death. And I ask myself whether I shouldn't have stayed in Colchis.

I don't like you being there at night alone," Bonnie told her. "You should come over here and drink my wine." Harper shuddered. "No wine. Ever again. I'm on the wagon." "Coffee then," Bonnie said. "Chamomile tea. I don't care. I want to watch you being safe.

When you get right down to it, if you're a woman, being killed by someone you love is the most ordinary murder of all.

For a dying man it is not a difficult decision [to agree to become the world's first heart transplant] ... because he knows he is at the end. If a lion chases you to the bank of a river filled with crocodiles, you will leap into the water convinced you have a chance to swim to the other side. But you would not accept such odds if there were no lion.

I have a fear of being boring.

Ich habe Angst vor dieser Erscheinung, aber wenn man viel trinkt, dann geht das schon wieder weg.

We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong he has a thousand who has overcome it.

Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.