Quotes About Fear

You can say things over and over to yourself, but the moment you say them out loud to someone else, they become something different, like you're taking a fear and giving it a solid shape so it can actually hurt you. And when someone else says the things you're saying in your head—that has the same effect. It should feel better to be sharing it, but it also makes it less deniable.

I certainly have room in my life for caution, but I have no room in my life for paralyzing fear. There's always a risk. There always has been. But I'd rather live my life than die of negations.

We both stay there, on our tightrope. Not looking down, but not moving, either.

I am in love with someone who's afraid of the future. And like a fool, I keep bringing it up.

Preferir o medo de estar com a pessoa errada por não ser capaz de lidar com o medo de ficar sozinho.

We are graced, and we are together, and the loneliness and the doubt and the fear. We are making it through.

School is school- she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next.

When you're telling the truth, you should look terrified and exhilarated at the same time, because telling the truth is navigating both of those feelings at the same exact time.

Una vez más, vuelvo a pensar en que la gente usa al diablo para justificar todas esas cosas que teme

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. Not even if you change bodies. Because it's not the body that's been brushed - it's the mind -X

She said moments like this were like waking up in the middle of the night: You're scared, you're disoriented, and you're completely convinced you're right. But then you stay awake a little longer and you realize things aren't as fearful as they seem." Excerpt From: David Levithan. "The Lover's Dictionary." iBooks.

Feelings don't follow rules. Guilt does. Fear does. But attraction? No way.

That dehumanizing loss of safety. It is something all of us feared and many of us knew firsthand.

But Harry is shaking. He can't help it—he's shaking. He can't believe what happened, and knows he shouldn't be embarrassed, but he is. He feels reduced, ridiculed. By shitheads.

You are here for... the nice girls who want to scream but are afraid of breaking something...

En este sitio, en este momento, somos quienes queremos ser. Soy afortunado porque yo no necesito mucho coraje. Pero otros, en cambio, necesitan una valentía enorme para estar aquí.

If we could feel the things we fear ahead of time, we would be traumatized. So instead we venture out thinking we know how things will feel, but knowing nothing of how things will really feel.

It was so screwed up, because the thing that made us the most powerless also gave us such power. We could make them turn away. We could bother them and challenge them and mess them up. You think people are afraid of two boys in love? To hell with that. What people are really afraid of is two boys screwing.

I think you're nice to me and that scares the fuck out of me. Because when a guy's a jerk or an asshole, it's easier because you know exactly where you stand. Since trust isn't an option, you don't have to get all freaked out about maybe having to trust him.

As much as you obsess about all the things that can go wrong, it is inevitably something you can't imagine that ends up going wrong. Which justifies worrying about everything just to make sure it's all covered.

she wants it to be over, but she's afraid of it being over, because then she'll have to figure out what comes next -A

I think you're nice to me and that scares the fuck out of me. Because when a guy's a jerk or an asshole, it's easier because you know where you stand.

Maybe tonight you're scared of falling, and maybe there's somebody here or somewhere else you're thinking about, worrying over, fretting over, trying to figure out if you want to fall, or how and when you're gonna land, and I gotta tell you friends that to stop thinking about the landing, because it's all about falling.

Bruce, I'm not saying never take any risks, because that would be a waste of time. I know you will. I did, in my youth. In a way, life is about taking risks.