Quotes About Fear

Fear is danger to your body, but disgust is danger to your soul.

As fleeting emotions stalk it, a face can leak fear or the guilt of a forming lie.

Every day our life was full of thoughts of the horrible present, and even our own death.

But, without meaning to exactly, one still tends to conjure up scary scenarios, their pathos or salvation, as if one could endure a trauma before it occurred, in small manageable doses, as a sort of inoculation. Are there homeopathic degrees of anguish?

I can't breathe, she said. I feel like I'm drowning in a gray sea, like they're flooding the whole city, washing away our past and people, dashing everything from the face of the earth. Jammed

Inevitably, fear raided everyone's mood. But as zookeepers, the Zabínskis understood both vigilance and predators; in a swamp of vipers, one planned every footstep. Shaped by the gravity of wartime, it wasn't always clear who or what could be considered outside or inside, loyal or turncoat, predator or prey.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.

What good is truth, at midnight, in the dark, when the wind is roaring like a bear in the chimney?

She could not read a book for fear of the feelings she might find in it.

It was sublime—and the sublime is not to be trusted.

When fear and cold make a statue of you in your bed, don't expect hard-boned and fleshless truth to come running to your aid. What you need are the plump comforts of a story. The soothing, rocking safety of a lie.

Cuando el miedo y el frío hacen de ti una estatua en tu propia cama, no ansíes que la Verdad pura y dura acuda en tu auxilio. Lo que necesitas es el mullido consuelo de un relato. La protección balsámica, adormecedora, de una mentira.

Certainly for myself I believe I would always wish to know the truth, but then I also wish to never have to face a truth I cannot bear. Being able to look truth in the face might be brave, or it might just mean you have been lucky in the truth you were dealt.

do you believe in ghosts?

her fear of action was overtaken by her fear of inaction.

Anyone would think you'd seen a ghost!

Death stalked her baby, and she had no bullets to protect him.

Anything could happen while the dead slept. Which was why some would say a woman shouldn't tread alone through a cemetery at 2:55 on a Tuesday morning in April.

Guilt slithered through e like a poisonous snake.

You can't live when you're afraid of daying.

Everyone creates what he fears.

The thought of [our] destruction is like a light in the middle of the night that spreads its flames on the objects it will soon consume. We must get used to contemplating this light, since it announces nothing that has not been prepared by all that comes before; and since death is as natural as life, why should be so afraid of it?

J'imagine que l'une des raisons pour lesquelles les gens s'accrochent de manière si tenace à leurs haines, c'est qu'ils sentent bien que, une fois la haine disparue, ils se retrouveront confrontés à la douleur1. »

Publicly inconsolable about the fact that racism continues, these activists seem privately terrified that it has abated.