Quotes About Fear

monsters I have ever known were men," I said.

Even the smartest person in the world could be scared by what he did or did not understand.

I told you because I didn't know how not to.

warned by a ghost.

Sometimes I think there's no such thing as falling in love. It's just the fear of losing someone.

I can't believe you're making jokes while I'm freaking out.

I didn't want to be treated like him," Josie said, answering her mother, when what she really meant was, I wasn't brave enough.

If you sit around and think about how hot the fire's going to be, you'll never get into the thick of it.

Life was what happened when all the what-if's didn't, when what you dreamed or hoped or—in this case—feared might come to pass passed by instead. Alex had spent enough nights thinking of good fortune, of how it was thin as a veil, how seamlessly you might stream from one side to the other.

Death is the guest you didn't invite: arriving when you least expect it, when you least need it, and when you least want it. It's a blow from behind. A knife in the back. The shadow that's following you. It's why you always keep looking over your shoulder.

she'd wager that they weren't single moms who'd had to poke the radiator vents with a yardstick at 3:00 a.m. to prove that there weren't any snakes hiding in the dark tunnels.

I knew what happened when you let yourself get close to someone, when you started to believe they loved you: you'd be disappointed.

Just because I get close to something that makes a lot of people uncomfortable doesn't mean I'm special. It just means I am willing to get close to the things that make people uncomfortable.

I walk towards the car but on second thought step back to the railing for a final look. Enormous. Anonymous. I could hurtle myself down the walls of this chasm, and never be found.

I die. Before I die my body turns hair-side-in. People come from everywhere to see the insides of themselves. But the sight makes them lose the will, and all die. O the embarrassment.

Unless the war changed radically, our chances of surviving the next three years were microscopic. We were remarkably healthy victims of a terminal disease(...).

MÄ›l jsem strach. Kdo by nemÄ›l nahnáno? KromÄ› blázn?, robot?, kandidát? na sebevraždu... ... a d?stojník?.

Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.

Don't ever have children, Tyler, unless you're ready to be afraid everyday for the rest of your life.

Terror is the desire to save your own ass, but horror is rooted in sympathy.

No one looks too closely at a librarian. People are afraid of going blind from the glare of ssss -ssso much compressed wisdom.

For example, if you are fearful your mind will freeze, motion will be stopped and you will be defeated. If your mind is fixed on victory or defeating your opponent, you will be unable to function automatically.

These arent your mother's zombies!

It is both good and horrible to talk with Death when you know he's sitting at your table.