Quotes About Fear

How can you enjoy life if you spend every minute fearing the end of it?

It's funny how when you are dying, you still fight for the upper hand. You want to pick the terms; you want to choose the date. You'll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you're still the one in control.

His biggest fear was that if and when he did find his missing daughter, she would no longer recognize who he had become in order to save her.

Our eyes meet in the mirror but neither of us speaks; we are afraid that whatever words we pick won't be able to bear the weight of what's happened.

So you tell me... did this execution really make you feel safer? Did it bring us all closer together? Or did it drive us further apart?

What do parents look like? You know how the tightrope guy at the circus wants everyone to believe his act is an art, but deep down you can see that he's really just hoping he makes it all the way across? Like that.

Your child is hurt. How quickly can you make it better? What if you can't?

courage wasn't something you were bequeathed at birth, and it wasn't a lack of fright. It was overcoming your fear, because the ones you love mattered more.

We are drawn to horror even as we recoil from it.

Lately I've been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.

You can invent any fiction and call it a life. Sometimes, when you don't ask questions, it's not because you are afraid that someone will lie to your face. It's because you're afraid they'll tell you the truth.

Your father used to say that being scared just meant you had something worth coming back to Queen Maureen said And he used to tell me he was scared all the time.

when you loved someone, you didn't want to be the one who brought their world crashing down.

He doesn't look people in the eye. He says that's how someone can steal your soul. Amen to that.

O. Odio esa palabra. Una sola letra y tiene todos los requisitos de la duda razonable.

The reason you hold on to someone too tightly isn't always to protect them—sometimes it's to protect yourself.

I know it feels crass to talk about death in such mercenary terms, but that's the very problem with death in the first place. We don't know how to talk about it. We use euphemisms and discuss pearly gates and angels while glossing over the fact that we have to die to get there. We treat it like a mystery, when in fact, it's the one experience all of us are guaranteed to share.

Parenthood was like awakening to find a soap bubble in the cup of your palm, and being told you had to carry it while you parachuted from a dizzying height, climbed a mountain range, battled on the front lines. All you wanted to do was tuck it away, safe from natural disasters and violence and prejudice and sarcasm, but that was not an option. You lived in daily fear of watching it burst, of breaking it yourself. Somehow

Lately, I have been having nightmares, where I'm cut into so many pieces that there isn't enough of me to be put back together.

Death is scary and confusing and painful, and facing it alone shouldn't be the norm.

It's the question mark that comes with death that we can't face, not the period.

People have to experience things that terrify them. If they don't, how will they ever come to appreciate safety?

It's not that he doesn't love you enough to tell you the truth," she said. "It's that he loves you too much to risk it.

When you find the person you are supposed to love, you will know by staring deeply into her eyes. Well, that's a deal breaker for me. It is hard for me to explain why it is so difficult to look into people's eyes. Imagine what it would be like if someone sliced your chest with a scalpel and rummaged around inside you, squeezing your heart and lungs and kidneys. That level of complete invasion is what it feels like when I make eye contact.