Quotes About Fear

Lately I've been anxious about pretty much everything. Even little things like making small commitments have left me paralyzed. I've become cautious, afraid of taking risks and making mistakes because I've made so many already and I fear I won't have time to clean up the mistakes anymore.

Is there anything that makes us feel more vulnerable than asking someone, Do you like me?

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. —James Baldwin 1 Idiots Chart note, John: Patient reports feeling "stressed out" and states that he is having difficulty sleeping and getting along

how many people avoid trying for things they really want in life because it's more painful to get close to the goal but not achieve it than not to have taken the chance in the first place.

The inability to say no is largely about approval-seeking—people imagine that if they say no, they won't be loved by others. The inability to say yes, however—to intimacy, a job opportunity, an alcohol program—is more about lack of trust in oneself. Will I mess this up? Will this turn out badly? Isn't it safer to stay where I am?

The beach was empty and dark but she couldn't hear her fear over the call of the surf.

I was three inches taller but he could smell my fear.

Great love conquers all fear.

How we gets to the place where we scared to talk softness to each other.

She planted her hands on her hips. "Which twin are you?" He studied the ground for a moment, then peered up at her, suspicion showing clearly in his brown eyes. "Joe." "Well, Josh, are you alone out here?" "I said I was Joe." "And I think you're afraid I'm going to tell how you frightened me so you gave me your brother's name.

He didn't know how one's flesh prickled when fear took hold. He didn't understand what it was like to gaze into the future and know that it would be nothing more than a dark and lonely place.

Shame, when she was younger, had stopped her. Fear, as she grew older, trapped the truth within her.

That is the thing about monsters, Pettypeace. They are monsters because they can delude people into believing they aren't.

I fear you're correct there. Catherine warns me that he has the look of a scoundrel about him." "Jack has told me that he's not going to let his daughter out of the house until she's forty.

couldn't. I knew the truth would cause you to hate me and I'd made the ghastly mistake of falling in love with you." He gave a caustic

I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?

She was afraid, and the afraid, she realized, sought opportunities for bravery in love.

Over the centuries people have blamed everything from eating a green chestnut to being cursed by a gypsy. Others have cited being frightened by a burglar, consuming improper combinations of food, and thinking and speaking impure thoughts as direct causes of deafness.

Trepidation is either the sign of great weakness or great wisdom.

When I was a kid, I used to imagine animals running under my bed. I told my dad, and he solved the problem quickly. He cut the legs off the bed.

Show me a guy who's afraid to look bad, and I'll show you a guy you can beat every time.

Let's do what you fear most That from which you recoil But which still makes your eyes moist

Sadly, no one in our family ever said, "I love you." Do you realize that? The truth is, I think we were all frightened of saying it, since the obvious reply would've been. "Well, if this is love, what is hate like?

Some of us have incredible potential, but we don't want to try anything bold because we don't want to fail. The easy choice: live in the relative safety of mediocrity because we think that's better than rejection.