Quotes About Fear

If you live that way, always letting the fear take over, I learned that you're not really living at all.

Therefore, you are the one that I am going to protect. And letting you run into the spooky boat storage building? Sorry, but I saw that Scooby Doo episode.

You're the one who is scared. Scared that if you're not careful, you'll actually let down that guard of yours, and maybe then it won't just be about the best sex of our lives. Maybe it will be about something more. But I guess we won't ever find out, will we?

Sometimes," she confessed as she stared at him, totally nude and vulnerable as she bared her darkest truth, "what I fear most is myself." Trusting the wrong man. Not going for what she wanted. Letting life pass her by.

The darkness of the night could hide so much. He'd always enjoyed killing in that darkness.

Her lips were soft, the caress so very light. Intimate. Loving. I love her. He realized the truth in that instant. It wasn't just an obsession. Not for him. He wanted her safe. He wanted her happy. And he never wanted her to fear monsters in the world ever again.

Afraid that he'd be like one of those horrible movie monsters that just rose again and again and kept attacking until everyone else was dead. "Ava!

At first, you just want to live. To escape. That's all that matters.

he had been left so painfully as a child and was terrified that it would happen again.

I was feeling a bit scared, and I realized something. To do brave things, you don't have to be hugely brave. You only have to be a little bit braver than you are scared." -Lily

To do brave things you don't have to be hugely brave, you only have be a little bit braver than you are scared.

I fear the dark. The dark is where preexistence abides. It is not possible to think of pre-existence, but one dreads its facsimile: post-existence. Do not erase, obliterate, or annihilate me. Mother, my mother. I will serve you. Use me in the wide world.

I write in terror...I have to talk myself into bravery with every sentence, sometimes every syllable.

Because she fears the past she distrusts the future — it, too, will turn into the past.

She thought: How hard it is to change one's life. And again she thought: How terrifyingly simple to change the lives of others.

The war was just a mile or so away, and I wondered at my simply walking to it, as I might walk to the market or to school. Today I will walk to the war.

He's just being a man," Estelle said. "Wanting his freedom, but not wanting you to have any." "No, he is being a boy," Fifi countered. "Afraid of these feelings that are so big, so powerful, that they make him feel small. So he tries to ignore them, thinking he can control things this way." She shrugged in disdain. "As if love were an enemy to be

Hiding under the bed doesn't make the worry stop.

I felt that the world itself had changed and that it would never be steady under my feet again. I felt I understood nothing of people and had no way to learn. I felt fear. Until you have felt fear, you cannot imagine it. Once you have really felt it, you know that all your earlier nervousness was but a pale shadow.

When a daring idea first crosses one's mind, if it is to be realized in the future it is often appealing. Then, as the time for its execution comes nearer, one begins to dread that which had once been anticipated.

He knew from the first that this man would know how to hurt him.

The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.

The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.