Quotes About Fear

He answered with a smile. The darkest and most malignant I had ever seen, too strong to be voluntary. The door, I thought. The door. But I didn't dare turn to it, in case it wasn't there.

her body held in frightened rigidity because if she dared stop clapping then a bad thing would come.

Didn't she know that knowing why doesn't make things any less scary?

Sometimes I say terrible things to him because I don't want him to know I'm sad; sometimes I fly off the handle to hide the fact that I don't know what I'm talking about. And other times--too often, maybe--I don't dare have an opinion in case it upsets anyone.

And other times—too often, maybe—I don't dare have an opinion in case it upsets anyone.

yellow made her so nervous that she suspected it was the cause of war.

But then, maybe "I don't believe in you" is the cruellest way to kill a monster.

Katherine, I could die horribly here in this chair, and my blood could spray all over the room and cover the pages of that fascinating book you're reading, and I believe, that you'd just wipe the worst away and keep going.

The situation improved once it occurred to them that they should also talk; as they came to understand each other they learned that what they'd been afraid of was running out of self. On the contrary the more they loved the more there was to love

Something terrible's coming, and everyone in the world is working to bring it on.

I've been so afraid of getting closeness wrong, because I don't know how to do it, because I don't know what my mistakes reveal --maybe they reveal very good reasons for my having been unloved as a child, I just don't know.

I was always a little disturbed by him because I'd never heard him tell a lie. That was horrifying to me, like living in a house with every door and window wide open all day long.

Why can't we kill this panic, or do the other thing and make it mute?

Sometimes we cannot see or hear or breathe because of our fright that this is all our bodies will know. We're scared by the happy hollow discipline that lines our brains and stomachs if we manage to stop after one biscuit. We need some kind of answer.

We lived side by side with life but were afraid of meeting it. (Maria Pavlovna)

the October Revolution of 1917 brought seismic changes to the city. In November, the 'agitators' arrived and with the support of local railway workers staged a Bolshevik coup d'état. This was swiftly followed by industrial and financial crisis as the city fell into debt and bankruptcy. Then followed arrests, shootings, confiscations and fear.

At the moment I would be less afraid of measles than of the revolutionaries.

Because your attack thoughts will be projected, you will fear attack. And if you fear attack, you must believe that you are not invulnerable.

Then the whole process of correction becomes nothing more than a series of pragmatic steps in the larger process of accepting the Atonement as the remedy. These steps may be summarized in this way: Know first that this is fear. Fear arises from lack of love. The only remedy for lack of love is perfect love. Perfect love is the Atonement.

Perfect love casts out fear. If fear exists, then there is not perfect love. Believe this and you will be free. Only God can establish this solution, and this faith is His gift.

Tal vez parezca que el mundo te causa dolor. 2 Sin embargo, al no tener causa, no tiene el poder de ser la causa de nada. 3 Al ser un efecto, no puede producir efectos. 4 Al ser una ilusión, es lo que tú deseas que sea. 5 Tus vanos deseos constituyen sus pesares. 6 Tus extraños anhelos dan lugar a sus sueños de maldad. 7 Tus pensamientos de muerte lo envuelven con miedo, mientras que en tu benévolo perdón halla vida.

fear cannot be limited, just as love cannot have limits.

Miracles are associated with fear only because of the fallacious belief that darkness can hide.

You are afraid to know God's Will, because you believe it is not yours. This belief is your whole sickness and your whole fear. Every symptom of sickness and fear arises here, because this is the belief that makes you want not to know. Believing this you hide in darkness, denying that the light is in you.