Quotes About Fear

Fear builds walls instead of bridges. I want a life of bridges, not walls.

I live too often in the realm of what if. I also expend time and mental energy continually trying to anticipate what sort of crouching tiger might be hiding around the next corner.

If I don't tell anyone, it'll never be true.

Fear got faster feet than truth, sometime.

This is our big chance to see what people think of us. The real us. We have to show em there's nothing to be afraid of. If we don't get over our fears, they never will.

I always thought the appeal for vampires are the same as religion, the desire to avoid death and live forever.

Hell, he thought, was not a cave filled with fire and brimstone--it was an insurance office.

He hadn't realized until this moment how powerful a being this was, hadn't known it could wield physical objects against him, although, in a weird way, such a real-world concern took some of the edge off the fear he felt, giving a tangible specificity to the more primal terror he'd experienced until now. Something brushed past him, something hairy, and in an instant that primal fear was back.

Childhood? Which childhood? The one that didn't last? The one in which you learned to be afraid?

People get so frightened for no reason, but I'll tell you, to live with no purpose is a far more frightening proposition... You bring yourself to say yes when you always thought the only possible answer was no, and your whole world changes.

The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.

This is what it feels like to love someone. The fear that they could be harmed and you'd be helpless keeps you up at night. It's a rift in your logic. It turns you from sensible into someone who's inside out.

It's one thing to run from ghosts, it's quite another to let them catch you.

I do not fear the unknown. I do not even fear death--in the event that I've lived a good life. What I fear is a life of mediocrity.

We only talk shit about the women we're afraid jeopardize the things we have and want. That's why when I was fat, people made fun of me, but no one gossiped about me.

I'll never have a baby because I'm afraid I'll leave it on top of my car.

I can't go down there. They think I'm dead! Oh, you've remembered that. Good for you.

I think when you move past your fear and you go after your dreams wholeheartedly, you become free.

One of the attributes of the saint is that he has no fear, for fear is anticipating some disagreeable event that might come or expecting that something beloved might pass away in the future. The saint is concerned only with the present moment. He has no future to fear.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it makes him landlord to a ghost.

If a man harbors any sort of fear, it percolates through all thinking, damages his personality and makes him a landlord to a ghost.

Dreams are nervy things—all it takes is for one stern word to be spoken in their direction and they shrivel up and die.

As we watched the soldiers and the Rambo disappear I remember feeling preternaturally calm. This is what deep, deep fear does to you. It turns you into a state of unfeeling.

Flirting with death is the spice of life.