Quotes About Fear

sometimes you had to be brave enough to "point your life in a new direction.

Erika, because she had no experience of it, and because part of her would always believe that visitors were to be feared and despised.

Maybe, thought Alice fearfully, the other Alice who has been living my life for the last ten years isn't very nice.

Every morning I worry that somebody I know will be killed in a terrorist attack that day. That means the terrorists have won, Ben tells me. He doesn't understand that I'm fighting off the terrorists by worrying about them. It's my own personal War on Terror.

The girl said, 'Sometimes you locked me in my room with only water. I had to ration the water. That was a terrible thing to do to a little girl. I thought I would be there forever. I thought I would die. I think I might have come close to dying. A few times.

Only those who have feared they will lose everything feel true gratitude for their lucky lives.

Harry Potter deserved to feel fear and confusion, because he was legally, morally and spiritually in the wrong. It happened so rarely that you knew that you were right and the other guy was wrong; Troy was Spider-Man, the Hulk, Captain America. He was goddamned Batman. He had never felt better.

She grabbed a towel from the rail and wrapped it around him, lifting him straight out of the bath, kicking and screaming. She carried him into his bedroom and laid him with elaborate care on the bed because she was terrified she might throw him against the wall.

Do you know the only difference between fear and excitement is the exhalation?

was nervous, when she didn't

She hadn't realized that you could spend your whole life looking at the people you loved in an oblique, halfhearted way, as if you were deliberately blurring your vision, until something like this happened, and then just looking at that person could be terrifying.

She could feel her cheeks burn as she typed in the two shameful words. "Domestic." "Violence.

Do you know the only difference between fear and excitement is the exhalation? When you're afraid, you hold the air in the top part of your lungs. You need to exhale. Like this. Ahhhh. Like that sound people make after a firework explodes.

No wonder she felt so ashamed of her shyness, as if it were an embarrassing physical ailment that needed to be hidden at all costs.

everyone had too much self-protective pride to truly strip down to their souls in front of their long-term partners.

She could shrink her fears down into innocuous little status updates that drifted away on the news feeds of her friends.

The time will come, my darling, we'll get frail and sick and stubborn and your stomach will twist with love and terror each time we call, but plenty of time, don't get ahead of yourself, we're not there yet.

These are hard times. The world hurts. We live in fear and forget to walk with hope. But hope has not forgotten you. So ask it to dinner. It's probably hungry and would appreciate the invitation.

The fear of death which is imprinted in men is at the same time a great expedient Heaven employs to hinder them from many misdeeds: many things are left undone for fear of imperiling one's life or health.

Look to the end; and resolve to make the service of Christ the first object in what remains of life, without indifference to the opinion of your fellow men, but also without fear of it.

Hope I dont look weak cuz when a wolf cry wolf you still see that wolfs teeth.

The only thing on the mind of shark is eat..by any means and youre just sardines.

He was terrified, he was thrilled. That was love.

He's our rodent control officer. He doesn't catch mice, he just terrifies them.