Quotes About Fear

If you don't lose that fear of death, then you can never appreciate life or take the chances life gives you.

There are no superstitions but those you invent

Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.

Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.

Fear the assassin who waits in the lonely passages of the heart. —Teri Kilborn, Broken Fences           She

We don't fear death because we lose tomorrow, but because we lose yesterday, with its sweet poignancy, its memories of growing children, of friends and lovers, of all that we have known. Nobody else has really been there in the way we have. And when the lights go out for us, for you or me, the lights go out in that world, too.

Be afraid of bombs on the metro. Be afraid of bombs on airplanes. Be afraid of mass murders lurking in the dark. Oh, but don't be afraid of the wrong people (brown and/or Muslim) because if you do, you become worse than the terrorists... you become a racist.

I sort of understood that when I first started: that you shouldn't repeat a success. Very often you're going to, and maybe the first time you do, it works. And you love it. But then you're trapped.

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

[Of what it takes to be successful:] Patience, drive and very little fear.

I'd rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it's probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.

If intelligence and capability are not criteria for the possession of rights, why would animals -who have the capacity to feel fear and pain- be excluded from our moral consideration?

She wondered why he hadn't come after her. How many men would let their wives walk out of a restaurant late at night and not give a damn where they went ? She wished she could stop thinking

God gave me my talent and I was afraid of facing him one day if I didn't use it.

My dear child, you have no idea what is happening. Your life, the way you know it, is coming to an end. You just wait and see what is going to happen to us!" I thought to myself, what the hell is she talking about? The Russian soldiers seemed so friendly and kind.

Remember, courage isn't the absence of fear, it is the ability to act in spite of the feeling of fear.

If something both excites you and scares you, it is probably worth doing.

I was afraid of the internet... because I couldn't type.

In the space of a few, bright years, something new stirred in this land; something unprecedented; something wonderful; and men, being men, perceived it with stunned awe and then, being men, destroyed it without thought, for being new and strange.

I wonder-?" whispered April Bell, her long eyes narrowed and dark. "I wonder what they really found?" "Whatever it is," breathed Barbee, "the find doesn't seem to have made them very happy. A fundamentalist might think they had stumbled into hell." "No," the girl said, "men aren't that much afraid of hell.

was still afraid—not of the dark-lipped girl who seemed to be waiting for his kiss, not even of the twentieth-century sorceress she pretended to be, but rather of that vague and strangely terrifying feeling she aroused, of awakening senses and powers and old half memories in himself.

Many bowdlerized versions indicated a Victorian-minded censorship, which feared that Little Red Riding Hood might some day break out, become a Bohemian, and live in the woods with the wolf.

How did you do all those dangerous stunts, jumping off rooftops and over cliffs?' I said, 'Oh, that's even simpler. It's just rolling, action, jump, cut, hospital!

Lady Dance's music wasn't a magic charm. I'd misunderstood. We had all failed to understand. The song and dance didn't stop us dying. It just stopped the fear of death swallowing us up while we were still alive. 'Rejoice,' came the soft voice of Lady Dance in my mind. 'Watch the moon and stars...' Death had ruled my life till I met Lady Dance. Her dance had set me free.