Quotes About Fear

Often those who hide their possession from everyone do so only for fear that the loved object will be taken away from them. And their happiness, by this prudent choice of silence, is diminished.

whatever reason they give, simply don't want to be killed, it's nothing but funk." And with a more emphatic gesture than when he alluded to others, "And if I don't rejoin my regiment, it's for the same reason.

But the old lady on the contrary, far from justifying her daughter's fears, felt every time someone of her own age "disappeared" that she had gained a victory in a contest against formidable competitors.

At last, in Albertine walking with the lady in gray down the little street that led to the bath-house, I saw before my eyes a fragment of that past which seemed to me no less mysterious and terrifying than I had feared when I imagined it enclosed within Albertine's eyes and within her memories.

And if she had appeared, would I have dared to speak to her? I felt that she would have regarded me as mad, for I no longer thought of those desires which came to me on my walks, but were never realized, as being shared by others, or as having any existence apart from myself.

in my cowardice I became at once a man,

Cuando a través de la vida una ha sido una mujer reservada y pudorosa, y con serios intentos de lealtad salpicando esta monotonía, resulta dificilísimo reconocer el deseo. Éste se escapa, esquivo, huye de rama en rama, aflora sólo para volver a ocultarse, temible, a disfrazar los sentires, dejando el interior sin manejo alguno, impredecible.

It's strange that the only certainty life gives us is one we fear so much.

Any life, bad as it may be, is better than nothing. Better than terror and that frozen fear of death. It's strange that the only certainty life gives us is one we fear so much.

don't fly too close to the sun," Tess Calls. "you'll burn the tips of your wings. Stay right with me. i'll keep you safe.

And of course, there is always the F for failure. F for failing falling festering failure. F for fault. F for forgotten.

El rabino Kushner escribió en uno de sus libros: "Yo creo que no es a morir a lo que teme la gente. Algo más desconcertante y trágico que la muerte nos asusta. Tenemos miedo de no haber vivido nunca, de llegar al final de nuestros días sintiendo que nunca estuvimos realmente vivos, que nunca entendimos de lo que realmente trata la vida... No

You don't lack motivation; you lack confidence in success—and that drives your motivation elsewhere, to avoid the feeling or the fear.

Acepta tus miedos pues son los que te han retado para que desarrolles la misma fuerza y coraje de un esforzado caballero en la batalla.

If you are not extreme, then people will take shortcuts because they don't fear you.

That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it.

Unutterable are the things we fear, but soon our fears will be exceeded

Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change?

Death and pain are not frightening, it's the fear of pain and death we need to fear. Which is why we praise the poet who wrote, 'Death is not fearful, but dying like a coward is.'

Now think of the things which goad man into destroying man: they are hope, envy, hatred, fear and contempt.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Fear is a force that sharpens your senses. Being afraid is a state of paralysis in which you can't do anything.

Because in the end, your enemy must ultimately fear you, understand your supremacy.

You have to use your fear to keep from that deadly state of being afraid.