Quotes About Fear

What strange creatures we are, to find silence peaceful, when permanent silence is the thing we most dread

I know everything is about to change, and I fear that one day I will long for this minute before anything is said, that I will want to travel back in time and undo what's coming next.

Adults can talk all they want about youth feeling invincible. Surely, some of us had that bravado. But there was also the dark inner voice telling us we were doomed. And then we were doomed. And then we weren't. You should never feel doomed.

I don't want to throw everything away for something uncertain.

There are many things that can keep you in a relationship. Fear of being alone. Fear of disrupting the arrangement of your life. A decision to settle for something that's okay, because you don't know if you can get any better. Or maybe there's the irrational belief that it will get better, even if you know he won't change.

i know if i told her about liking guys, she'd probably stop wanting to date me, which would be a huge plus. but i also know i'd immediately become her gay pet, and that's the last kind of leash i want. and it's not like i'm really that gay. i fucking hate madonna.

I look around me and see all the problems. I know people aren't living the gospel. I know they are too busy. The world is too loud. The sounds you hear in the hall or not the substance of love and kindness. I hear gossip, I hear spite, I hear fear. I do not hear the gospel. Except inside me, I can feel it there.

sweaty palms. check. shaky bones. check. the feeling that all oxygen in the air has been replaced by helium. yup.

In this space, in this moment, we are who we want to be. I am lucky, because for me that doesn't take much courage. But for others, it takes a world of bravery to make it to the clearing.

I am not ready to see what happens next. Because it's possible that nothing will happen, and that might break me.

El silencio equivale a la muerte", solíamos decir. Y por debajo de eso estaría la suposición –el miedo– de que la muerte equivalía al silencio.

He doesn't want to step out of the present, this present. Because once he does, there will be college applications and college acceptances (just one will do) and the last of everything (last class, last party, last night, last day, last goodbye), and then the world will change forever and he will go to college and eventually become an adult. That is not what he wants. He does not want those complications, that change. Not now.

I have seen this too many times before. The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.

You hear the phrase all the time: a brush with death. What they don't tell you is that the brush has paint on it. And once it touches you, you can't get it off.

i am so freaked out, you could pull a clown out of my ass and i wouldn't be at all surprised.

I was still scared by every gap in our conversation, fearing that this was it, the point where we had nothing left to say.

My fear tries to keep my secrets locked down, but my hope keeps slipping you the key.

Ik verbaas me altijd over mensen die weten dat iets fout is, maar dat proberen te negeren, alsof het foute daardoor zou verdwijnen.

We know: An almost certain way to die is to believe you are already dead.

Silence only harms when there are things that aren't being said, or when there's the fear that the well is empty and there's nothing left to say.

Neil doesn't really think Peter is cheating on him. He doesn't think Peter would ever cheat on him. That's not what this is about. It's about Neil's fear that Peter will want to cheat on him, that he will someday realize there's someone better out there.

Most of the time I manage to forget to be afraid. But sometimes I think, 'This could be is,' and I move forward anyway.

I was still thinking he might come after me. Even after he left.

People fall hard for the notion of falling, and saying you want no part of it will only get you sent to the loony bin.