Quotes About Fear

We are afraid of the things we do not know—just because we do not know them.

I can't go to another country, Salva thought. If I do, my family will never find me.

Nya could see the questions in her mother's face every morning: Would they be lucky again? Or was it now their turn to lose someone?

I wasn't anybody at all. And I began to get afraid that all at once maybe my eyes would break open like soap bubbles and everybody would see there wasn't anything there, just a vile mess. And I was afraid that maybe the rot inside me would break out in sores and warts, screaming: 'traitor, sinner, imposter.'" Part

The sense of dependence and the narcissism that were to mark, and sometimes ruin, Sylvia's relationships in the future clearly originated in her childhood fear of abandonment.

A bully is only a coward who needs to be shown who's really in charge.

Now, all that I feared would happen has happened. We are at war all over the world, and we are unprepared for it from either a spiritual or a material standpoint. Fortunately, in spite of all that has been said, the oceans are still difficult to cross; and we have the time to adjust and prepare.

What kind of man would live where there is no danger? I don't believe in taking foolish chances. But nothing can be accomplished by not taking a chance at all.

Perhaps the apparent favor of the universe is no more than the crocodile grin of a Doberman breathing hard and about to be hungry?

I was sixteen, seeking lessons in rainbow posters, love was stronger than I knew. So was fear.

Did he make you scream? In the middle of ripping shoulder meat from a dead mound did you rock back weak on your haunches, yellow eyes puddling cataract blue, a pulse parting your messy lips?

I love to be scared. I'm currently reading Colson Whitehead's Zone One, right?--?last night I thought, okay, I'll stop at the next section break and go to sleep. Only the next section break began in an old farmhouse in Northampton. As I was reading the book in an old farmhouse in Northampton, I kept going for a few more pages.

This lack of self-control I fear is never ending

Never forget the blood sweat and tears The uphill struggle over years the fear and, trash talking and the people it was to, and the people that started it just like you

I got a heart full of pain, head full of stress handfull of anger, held in my chest Uphill struggle Blood sweat and tears Nothing to gain Everything to fear

Philip says to fear me. Do you have any idea how afraid I am of him?

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live?

You can't stand up to the night until you understand what's hiding in its shadows.

I don't know what's waiting for us when we die--something better, something worse. I only know I'm not ready to find out yet.

I fear theology is--in the words attributed to William Temple--"still in its infancy" when it comes to animals.

If they took Paris, what would become of us? It was ghastly to sit there in camp, helpless, imprisoned, unable to take any step against the disaster that was drawing nearer or even to get any definite information about it.

Greatness comes from fear. Fear can either shut us down and we go home, or we fight through it.

He was already intuiting that attachment - if only to a squirt gun - made him vulnerable.

Plots set in the future are about what people fear in the present.