Quotes About Fear

there was no way to keep from knowing. Often in the evening, turning the dial on the radio, we would pick up a voice from Germany. The voice did not talk, or even shout. It screamed. Oddly,

Worrying does not empty tomorrow of its troubles...it empties today of its strength.

That's the S.D.'s favorite trick—feeling for a warm spot on a bed." © Hans Poley/Nederlands fotomuseum, Rotterdam Two Jewish women during an actual drill of the hiding place in 1943.

We were shoved against the back wall. Thirty or forty people were all that could fit in. And still the soldiers drove women over the side, cursing, jabbing with their guns. Shrieks rose from the center of the car but still the press increased. It was only when eighty women were packed inside that the door thumped shut and we heard iron bolts driven into place.

Yeah, it's risky, but no more risky than driving a car.

I felt resolved to give up every thing, and seek to be reconciled to God. That fear, which I had ever felt, that others would know I was serious, now vanished away, and I was willing that the whole universe should know that I felt myself to be lost and perishing sinner

If you write to us," Luka had said with tears in his eyes, "don't ever sign your name or send an address.

It was terrifying to realize life goes on without you.

The times in your life where you do hard things, you look adversity in the eye and face it down; despite possibly fearness in a turmoil of fear would be the best times of your life. These things you look back on as the building blocks of your person that you ultimately become. ~Dr. Craig Challen

Dark, closed places like this make me uneasy. It is not the wild beasts or the idea of a lunatic with an ax. It is not facing my dreaded interior self. It is the informality, the thoughtlessness, the brooding wisdom, the endlessness, the closure of darkness. More than that, it is the thing in darkness I cannot name.

My left hand is a Rorschach blotch all its own, a six-fingered, skin-blood-and-bone ink splatter. People see it and fly their worst fears and secret fetishes at full mast when they think they're being discreet. They see it as strange, fascinating, ugly, beautiful, disgusting or erotic depending on what's behind their eyes.

Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.

It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.

Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain unresolved the revenue stream will keep flowing.

The world can be such a fright, but it belongs to us tonight.

This book could scare them. The sex, the violence, the dream sequences and the iconoclasm - I think a lot of people are uncomfortable with that. I understand that. It was very uncomfortable to write some of it

I had lived in fear of the fabled terrifying visions that assail chronic drinkers, but which had not yet attacked me.

Acid gave me a clinical, unblinking look at madness, and I discovered I wasn't brave enough to be insane.

I don't know why I was so afraid of failure; the most interesting people I know have failed more than they have succeeded. This may be because life is not as simple as it appears to a desperately ambitious young man, or it could be that all my friends are losers.

I think sometimes that people think brave means not being afraid, which of course it doesn't mean that at all. It means that you're afraid, but you move past that and do it anyway, do what you think is right.

I sometimes wonder if fear isn't just God's way of saying, 'Pay attention, this could be fun.

It was San Francisco, after all; if you are a guy and you're worried about the girl you like hooking up with someone on her vacation, I suppose San Francisco is the safest bet, assuming she doesn't give her heart to a lesbian--and who among us hasn't done that?

A thousand years ago or more They opened up the devil's door And a cwene of dark and death Crawled out, and creeping stole our breath And we've been hiding ever-more.

Faith doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Faith means you don't let fear stop you.