Quotes About Fear

The fearless are merely fearless. People who act in spite of their fear are truly brave.

It takes courage to know when you ought to be afraid.

No matter how hard he ran, how carefully he hid himself or what he might find as a weapon, he knew they would eventually locate him. It was as inevitable as the dark between the stars. And

in his frozen sleep, no one could hear his screams.

Everything about the creature was terrifying. The way it moved, the way it looked – even the way it died.

If not wisdom then certainly truth. If you've nothing to lose you've nothing to fear losing.

What has happened is what has happened. The past is gone. I was not the same person then. I was much weaker. I lived and breathed and hid in fear. That time is gone. I fear nothing. I have faced my fears and learned from them. The gods gave me that.

Small wonder how pitiably we love our home, cling in her skirts at night, rejoice in her wide star-seducing smile, when every star strikes us sick with the fright: do we really exist at all?

Yes, for every child, rich or poor, there's a time of running through a dark place; and there's no word for a child's fear, and no ears to head it if there was a word, and no one to understand it if they heard. God save the little children! They abide and they endure.

He did not know what "she's worth the saving" meant, and it was one of the things he always took care not to ask, because although it sounded so gentle he was also sure that somewhere inside it there was something terrible to be afraid of exactly because it sounded so gently, and he would become very much afraid instead of only a little afraid if he asked and learned what it meant.

Don't be a little paranoid; worry about everything, or let it all go.

Sometimes all the procedures in the world can't protect you . . . but that's no reason to walk up to something that looks like a lion and kick it in the ass.

You clutch your comfortable excuses, saying, Someday I'll be brave, it won't take a lot, just give me one more chance and this time I'll grab it. .

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

To defend one's self against fear is simply to ensure that one will, one day, be conquered by it fears must be faced.

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Prima di tutto la paura, che nasce dal non capire che Cristo ha già vinto: siamo già dalla parte del vincitore! Quindi, è un tradimento della propria fede la paura: «Non abbiate paura, io ho vinto il mondo».

Quizás también sin antiguo daño, sin íntimo terror, no haya conocimiento ni bondad tampoco.. Del poema "Investiga la ciencia del dolor

Solitude is good company and my architecture is not for those who fear or shun it.

La seguridad, ese insecto que anida en los volantes de la luz

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.

La madre tenía ya de por sí un carácter tenebroso, pero es que además decía, y no se cansaba de repetir, que la alegría trae mala suerte porque detrás de la alegría acecha siempre la desgracia. «Los llantos los oye Dios y la risa el diablo»

O sea qué las cosas que no piensan no se pueden asustar?

Because fear called her by her name. (Her own name, not fear's name. Fear doesn't have a name; it's just the steady beat underneath a smile.)