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Quotes About Fear

He'd felt the same way some nights on patrol, hearing the jungle shift and creak around him in the dark. His head saying, go ahead, take your best shot, I'm not scared of you slanty-eyed buttwipes. And at the same time his heart was trying to parachute out his asshole.
~ James W. Hall
Tip 7. Read good books until the characters in each story run from you in terror.
~ James W. Lewis
Ghosts walked beside Condley on the muddy trails, dirty and unshaven, burdened by helmets and packs and weapons, loping tiredly, all parts of their bodies half asleep while their eyes stayed bright with fear. The ghosts would always be there, young-faced and yearning, even as time itself erased the evidence of their passing. It was a burden rather than a talent that Condley could walk a village trail and be in two time zones at once, the past just as fresh as today.
~ James Webb
A German infantryman wrote in his diary, 'Courage has nothing to do with it. The fear of death surpasses all other feelings and terrible compulsion alone drives the soldier forward.'22
~ James Wyllie
War is not as the people at home imagine it, with a hurrah and a roar: it is very serious, very grim.'5
~ James Wyllie
Sean) "The therapist calls it cleithrophobia." "That sounds like a fear of something else," Krista snorted before she could stop herself. She bit her lip, as shame washed through her. Sean turned, his startled laughter sounding rusty as it erupted from his chest. "No, I'm definitely not scared of that.
~ Jami Alden
Everything is a risk. That's what's hitting so many people so hard right now, here, as we approach May 2020. They didn't know that they didn't know.
~ Jami Attenberg
I can tell you something remarkable about that time, although it has only just occurred to me now. I never thought about death, like I do now. I never worried about dying. I only ever thought about being alive.
~ Jami Attenberg
I fear I am forbidden fruit," he sighed into her hair. Her hands grasped him in answer. "I would know such fruit. For always." "Oh, sweetness, you know not what you are saying. It can be so dark here, with me." "I'm not afraid." Even as he gave up and kissed her, he murmured a warning. "You should be. You should be.
~ Jamie Carie
I'd like to be a wounded leading man. Instead of a pillar of strength, I'd be the scared one.
~ Jamie Kennedy
Is it okay to be scared?" Of course. You should be. It's scary. Wedding planning is The Conjuring for Basic Bitches. And marriage itself is The Shining: Terrifying, but also a well-respected classic.
~ Jamie Lee
Experience is the best antidote for fear. An inexperienced climber doesn't know whether to trust a tiny foothold the size of a penny, but it can feel as safe as a carpeted hallway to an experienced climber.
~ Jamling Tenzing Norgay
Hesitation is a half way to death
~ Jan Guillou
A short time later he spoke to Brother Lucien, who vehemently rejected the idea in fright.
~ Jan Guillou
White is The color for innocence, but iT can Be So Dangerous.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
If we have a chance coming to the Top and no have luck For stay there, the way down can be very Scary for the change in our Life style.
~ Jan Jansen Easy Branches
He was praying the Psalms, as he'd done in times past, with the enemies of King David translated into his own enemies of fear and remorse and self-loathing, which, in their legions, had become as armies of darkness.
~ Jan Karon
Fear knocked, faith answered. No one was there.
~ Jan Karon
people who keep dogs . . . are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves. August Strindberg
~ Jan Karon
so calm our minds that fears may cease, and rested bodies wake in peace.
~ Jan Karon
too tired to run and too afraid to rest.
~ Jan Karon
Fear is one of the Enemy's deadliest strategies.
~ Jan Karon
I try to wait for Him to make the darkness light, then grow afraid and try to create the light on my own.
~ Jan Karon
Lord, if this is Your answer, then You've got to help me do this thing. I know how You feel about fear, and I agree. But I'm scared stiff and You know it, and I'rn needing a generous hand-out of grace.
~ Jan Karon