Quotes About Fear

Grief thrived in a quiet heart, and right now hers thundered with terror and revulsion

beyond that image conjured by Poe's famous story, "The Premature Burial

She has been sitting on the step for half an hour when she hears semiautomatic rifle fire in the distance.

the quiet is broken by a high-pitched buzzing like an immense swarm of angry wasps.

It was human nature to obsess on negatives, to worry the smallest of sparks into infernos.

Colt had never shown fear, never issued a complaint about pain, remained always the definition of stoic. This wasn't merely a scream of pain, but also of pure terror, and carried on it were words: "He's biting, he's biting!

Nevertheless, I quickly pulled my feet onto the seat and would have gathered my petticoats tightly around me if I had been wearing any. After

upon all the doors of my defenses, chasing out my expectations of civilization and letting in the fear of anarchy and barbaric violence.

The woman in the hallway looks like Sarah, except she appears to be scared shitless

What does worry accomplish except to breed more worry?

bloodstream

The only thing he'd needed to scare away with a long blast of the horn had been raccoons that approached him hissing and baring their teeth.

face that looked partly melted.

shore of truth that they couldn't even see it. They were everywhere in our time, controlled by those who taught them to fear what didn't threaten them and receive with gladness those ideas and forces that would rob them of purpose, of meaning, of security—and sooner than later would take away their

Even after all these uneventful years on Jacob's Ladder, I still lock the door every night.

In addition to the garlic, verbena aftershave, coconut-scented hand sanitizer, antiperspirant, ChapStick, pee on the shoes, anger, and hatred, Frank also smelled of the particular kind of fear that had a sour edge and was called cowardice

She does not always carry a concealed weapon when outside.

Hark, dumbass, the error is not to fall but to fall from no height. Don't fall off a curb, fall off a cliff.

It is our light, not our darkness, that most frightens us. We

I knew that to accomplish my goal I would need to stay present with my discomfort and my fear of the unknown rather than retreat to the false safety of familiar ground.

If you are fearful about discovering your anger, remember that your power is buried along with it.

We withhold our communications to others, fearing that we are not worthy of love and happiness.

It was time to face those fears head-on and quit flirting with thoughts of failure.

Love isn't really all that terrifying once you let go of your doubts.