Quotes About Fear

My father had a lifelong terror, phobia whatever, about hospitals. Makes a lot of sense in hindsight. He was so scared of doctors, he passed that on to me. That's what parents exist for: to pass their phobias on generation to generation.

The tall trees, compassionate, understood everything: grief - they stood stock-still, branches drooped in despair; fear - they exposed their many roots, tugged their gold hair; anger - they shook in the storm, pointed their bony fingers. - The World of Trees (inspired by the Forest of Burnley)

She had not forgotten the time she was lost - how even while lost she refused to feel the fear, but instead saw only the green beauty of the wildwood, breathing deep the scent of trees, earth, lichen, moss.

The world is made of more than particles. It's made of things you can't hold in your hand, like fear, love, loss, hope, truth.

Well, this might sound stupid but I think he was my best friend. Like the other half of me. I'm so scared something might have happened to him when he went back. I miss him so much sometimes I look at windows and I want to just walk right through them -- like press myself through the glass. I want their sharp edges to fragment me.

We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.

to terrify children with hell is that good for the world

At the time 1980, people regarded actresses involved with production with a certain amount of fear, resentment and anger.

Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted.

Il est toujours fort difficile de dire à quel moment une crainte s'est transformée en certitude et quelle mince donnée supplémentaire a changé la face des choses. On se sentait encore soutenu par un petit souffle d'espérance, dont on ne s'avouait pas le progressif affaiblissement. Et puis, passé un certain cap, on s'aperçoit qu'il n'est plus là et que l'on s'en doutait depuis un bon moment.

Gingerly, Daniel reached toward the infant. "What if she doesn't like me?" "She'll spit acid in your eye and you'll die a horrible death," Kara joked.

in the face of horror, ancient rituals regained their meaning

Survival is never more than putting off the moment of death.

He who fears the Lord, has nothing to fear.

Aside from being terrifying, it was totally humiliating. Rose Tyler, Barbie doll.

Buying a house is right up there with the holy trinity of death, divorce, and public speaking.

Sit down and talk to the man, for God's sake. You didn't know that love was a high-risk business? It surely is. But not taking the risk is terrible,

will you stop trying to be brave! It's me, Mama! You can be honest with me." -Hetty

There is nothing of which every man is so afraid, as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

I don't know," he said softly. "I look into the future and I don't see anything else. It's like it's this big blank space where I should be.

No one stops to think, though—that maybe there is a reason for the darkness. Maybe people have to be reminded of it—of its power. At night, we go to sleep against the darkness. And if we wake up before morning, a lot of times we're afraid. We need it all though—the darkness and the light.

Before, you used to hear the word immigration and it sounded like everything you ever believed in. It sounded like feliz cumpleaños and merry Christmas and welcome home . But now you hear it and you get scared because it sounds like a word that makes you want to disappear. It sounds like someone getting stolen away from you.

I have all this stuff—all these thoughts going on inside me and they all seem so—so dangerous." —Tyler

Guess that's where the tears came from, knowing that there's so much in this great big world that you don't have a single ounce of control over.