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Quotes About Fear

They had always been soft-spoken. Because they had always been afraid.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
wasn't afraid of dying because dying had always been somewhere in our house, somewhere so close, we could feel the wind of it on our cheeks.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
A new fear like a dragging bruise moving in his stomach.
~ Jacqueline Woodson
This, she thought inanely, is the part where I am supposed to run. Oh, and that screaming thing
~ Jacquelyn Frank
He looked up abruptly, almost as though he had sensed her entering the room. She found herself suddenly afraid that he had the ability to do exactly that.
~ Jacquelyn Frank
When we have no trust, the vacant space that is left becomes filled with fear.
~ Jacquelyn Frank
The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.
~ Unknown
I don't disbelieve in anything, Mr. Hatch," and The Thinking Machine regarded the newspaper man quietly. "I don't even disbelieve in what is broadly termed the supernatural-I merely don't know. It is necessary, in the solution of material problems, to work from a material basis, and then the things which are conjured up by fear and-and failure to understand may be dissipated.
~ Unknown
Quand la mort lui parle de l'amour la vie frémit Quand la vie lui parle de la mort l'amour sourit.
~ Jacques Prévert
dead fish protected by cans cans protected by windows windows protected by cops cops protected by fear so many barricades for six pitiful sardines
~ Jacques Prévert
Que a pesar de todos mis esfuerzos soy incapaz de borrarte de mi mente. Y que a pesar de que mi buen juicio me grita que es un error, quiero sentir la magia de tus besos una y otra vez. Tanto que me asusta.
~ Unknown
Better to face the devil than have him at your back.
~ Unknown
when I say spiritual, I am talking about you beginning to experience that which is not physical. Once this spiritual dimension is alive, once you start experiencing yourself beyond the limitations of the physical and the mental, only then there's no such thing as fear. Fear is just the creation of an overactive and out-of-control mind.
~ Jaggi Vasudev
Mejor es hacer algo y arrepentirse, que arrepentirse de no haberlo hecho.»
~ Unknown
He was insane, he thought people were trying to destroy him, to suck out his guts, but, she noted, in the rare event that someone was trying to destroy you, to suck out your guts, insanity was a goodly metaphysics.
~ Unknown
I didn't want to write this even to think of you afraid the thought would curl would tangle & make you common & factual as light.
~ Unknown
Declaration of Conscience," delivered on the Senate floor, derided McCarthy's "Four Horsemen of Calumny—Fear, Ignorance, Bigotry, and Smear." She and Kefauver were thus allies against
~ Jake Tapper
Trust me, there are things in this mountain that will make your jaw bounce off the floor.
~ Unknown
Out of the corner of one eye, I could see my mother. Out of the corner of the other eye, I could see her shadow on the wall, cast there by the lamp-light. It was a big and solid shadow, and it looked so much like my mother that I became frightened. For I could not be sure whether for the rest of my life I would be able to tell when it was really my mother and when it was really her shadow standing between me and the rest of the world.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
I was afraid of the dead, as was everyone I knew. We were afraid of the dead because we never could tell when they might show up again.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
Looking at the horizon again, I saw a lone figure coming toward me, but I wasn't frightened because I was sure it was my mother. As I got closer to the figure, I could see that it wasn't my mother, but still I wasn't frightened because I could see that it was a woman.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
I was numb, but it was from not knowing just what this new life would hold for me.
~ Jamaica Kincaid
Contempla la bellezza nelle cose semplici: il sole che sorge da quell'immensa, scintillante distesa d'acqua che è il mare; sorge ogni giorno in modo nuovo, come fosse la prima volta. <> dice nel suo cuore, perchè sente la fresca brezza sulla nuca. Ma più volte sente l'inutilità di tutto ciò, perchè davanti a lui si stende un silenzio spaventoso, una vastità, dalla lunghezza e larghezza e profondità incommensurabili. Il nulla
~ Jamaica Kincaid
Conquering fear is riding the Roller Coaster high up into the Sky. And experiencing the big drop down to the ground. The Adrenaline high, for flight, or fight."
~ Unknown