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Quotes About Fear

There are people out there who enjoy hurting and scaring others. They're going to keep doing it until you make them stop.
~ Jim Butcher
Paranoid? Probably. But just because you
~ Jim Butcher
I'm sure the world would come to an end if I were allowed to feel a sense of relief and well-being for any length of time.
~ Jim Butcher
But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.
~ Jim Butcher
Anger is my hiding place from fear, my shield and my sword against it. I
~ Jim Butcher
If you go to your death rather than do everything you might to prevent what is happening, you are merely committing suicide and trying to make yourself feel better about it. That is the act of a coward.
~ Jim Butcher
People who are scared need to laugh, and the scarier things are, the more they need it.
~ Jim Butcher
The fastest way for us to help make him into a monster is to look at him like he is one.
~ Jim Butcher
It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.
~ Jim Butcher
Butters, I said, Don't give me statistics on heart failure. Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it.
~ Jim Butcher
I know how you feel," I said. "You run into something you totally don't get, and it's scary as hell. But once you learn something about it, it gets easier to handle. Knowledge counters fear. It always has.
~ Jim Butcher
It's only paranoia if I'm wrong
~ Jim Butcher
People who know diddly about wizards don't like to give us their names. They're convinced that if they give a wizard their name from their own lips it could be used against them. To be fair, they're right.
~ Jim Butcher
Bob stared at me for a second and said, 'I have nightmares about Hell, where all I do is add up numbers and try to have conversations with people like you.
~ Jim Butcher
You can't," Grimm said simply. "You've seen the mistmaw. They haven't.
~ Jim Butcher
But the fact is that the human mind isn't a terribly logical or consistent place. Most people, given the choice to face a hideous or terrifying truth or to conveniently avoid it, choose the convenience and peace of normality.
~ Jim Butcher
just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.
~ Jim Butcher
Oh, crap. You're saying that it's going to kill me, too." "Yes, that is exactly what I'm freaking saying, you tool." "Um," Thomas said, "I'm against that.
~ Jim Butcher
Life's easier when you can write off others as monsters, as demons, as horrible threats that must be hated and feared. The thing is, you can't do that without becoming them, just a little. Sure
~ Jim Butcher
Fear is a part of life. It's a warning mechanism. That's all. It tells you when there's danger around. Its job is to help you survive. Not cripple you into being unable to do it.
~ Jim Butcher
Sometimes the best defense is a T. rex.
~ Jim Butcher
I took a slow breath and stepped past her, to face the king of the Red Court. He was kinda little.
~ Jim Butcher
Holy shit," I breathed. "Hellhounds." "Harry," Michael said sternly. "You know I hate it when you swear." "You're right. Sorry. Holy shit," I breathed, "heckhounds
~ Jim Butcher
Fear was wisdom in a situation like this, and he was pleased that Folly was obviously intelligent enough to know it. He hoped that she would use the fear to make her cleverer, rather than more foolish, but that was asking much of a human, relatively odd or not.
~ Jim Butcher