Quotes About Fear

I'm so tired of being here, suppressed by all my childish fears.

At the root of every large struggle in life is the need to be honest about something that we do not feel we can be honest about, We lie to ourselves or other people because the truth might require action and action requires courage. We say we don't know what's wrong, when we do know; we just wish we didn't.

Speak the truth, even if your voice shakes.

Dont become something just because someone else wants you to, or because its easy; you wont be happy. You have to do what you really, really, really, really want to do, even if it scares the sh.. out of you.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

If you are honest, truthful, and transparent, people trust you. If people trust you, you have no grounds for fear, suspicion or jealousy.

I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.

Fear takes away the best part of you and push you away from your real self. To be fearless is to be Yourself.

Yes, indeed, if some of these boys are a bit soft and chicken-hearted and hesitate, they shoot them immediately, a dozen bullets through the skin and that's that. In a way it's got to be done and what does it matter to the officers? They get their pesetas all the same and that's all they care about.

Pero yo seguía diciéndole: - Ven a la alcoba a darme un beso -aterrorizado al ver cómo ascendía por la pared el reflejo de la bujía de mi padre, pero utilizando su inminente aparición como un medio de intimidación.

Pois a posse do que se ama é uma alegria ainda maior do que o amor. Muitas vezes os que escondem de todos essa posse, só o fazem pelo medo de que o objeto amado lhes seja roubado. E a felicidade deles fica diminuída por aquela prudência de calar.

No less than my grandmother, she dreaded these invasions of strangers, and, in her fear of being too late to escape if she let herself be seen, would fly from the room with a rapidity which always made my father and me laugh at her.

She had so little expected to see him that she recoiled in fear. And he himself had run all over Paris not because he thought it was possible to find her, but because it was too hard for him to give up the search.

You have not, perhaps, any personal merit; so few of us have! But for a time at least you have youth, and that is always a charm. Besides, sir, the greatest folly of all is to laugh at or to condemn in others what one does not happen oneself to feel. I love the night, and you tell me that you are afraid of it.

By the last days of December, it had come to seem likely that I would receive such a letter. Whether it was really likely or not, our desire for such a letter, our need for it, is enough to make us believe it will probably come. The soldier is convinced that an indefinitely extendable period must elapse before he will be killed, the thief before he will be arrested, all of us before we must die.

A calma que resultava de minhas angústias findas dava-me uma alegria extraordinária, não menos que a espera, a sede e o medo do perigo.

But tongues are strangely loosened and are swift to denounce people's faults when the revenge of the person accused is no longer to be feared.

No doubt I had long been prepared, by virtue of the sway exercised over my imagination and my ability to be moved by the example of Swann, to believe that what I feared was true, instead of what I would have wished for. Thus the comfort brought by Albertine's affirmations was all but compromised for a moment because I recalled the story of Odette.

And if she had appeared, would I have dared to speak to her?

And by a strange coincidence, that reasoned fear of danger was born at the very moment when the idea of death had become indifferent to me. The fear of no longer existing had formerly horrified me at each new love I experienced—for Gilberte, for Albertine—because I could not bear the thought that one day the being who loved them might not be there; it was a sort of death. But the very recurrence of this fear led to its changing into calm confidence.

That feeling of veneration which we always have for those who hold, and exercise without restraint, the power to do us harm.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Kaybetmekten en çok korktu?umuz zenginlikler, kalbimiz taraf?ndan ele geçirilmedikleri için, d???m?zda kalm?? olanlard?r.

that feeling of veneration which we always have for those who wield unrestrained power to do us harm.