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Quotes About Fear

And I'm stabbed." She felt vulnerable and fought a rush of tears. "He's not going to hurt you," Adler said.
~ Mary Burton
Never, ever get into anyone's car, even if they threaten to shoot you. You have a better chance with the bullet than if you get in the car.
~ Mary Burton
From reading over the notes for each session it was apparent that there had been improvement by more or less regular steps from almost complete terror at sight of the rabbit to a completely positive response with no signs of disturbance.
~ Unknown
Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I able to follow the spirit of love into the desert? It is a frightening and sacred moment. There is no return. One's life is charged forever. It is the fire that gives us our shape.
~ Mary Caroline Richards
Maybe the kind of love that made your heart leap into your throat was the kind that could kill you.
~ Unknown
Some days Ursula could barely bring herself to talk for the weight of all her fears, but she could always sing.
~ Mary Connealy
No one loves the man whom he fears.
~ Aristotle
Love is a haunting melody that I have never mastered and I fear I never will.
~ Unknown
Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.
~ Bill Russell
The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves. We live in denial of what we do, even what we think. We do this because we're afraid. We fear we will not find love, and when we find it we fear we'll lose it. We fear that if we do not have love we will be unhappy.
~ Richard Bach
True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.
~ Unknown
Mothers tell your children 'Be quick, you must be strong. Life is full of wonder and love is never wrong.' Remember how they taught you; how much of it was fear. Refuse to hand it down: The legacy stops here.
~ Melissa Etheridge
Every man is afraid of something. That's how you know he's in love with you; when he is afraid of losing you.
~ Unknown
You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax; tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough.
~ Unknown
We have to realize that we are as deeply afraid to live and to love as we are to die.
~ Ronald David Laing
Why are men so secretive, why are they afraid of the truth, sometimes even of themselves?
~ Sorin Cerin
One of the things which danger does to you after a time is -, well, to kill emotion. I don't think I shall ever feel anything again except fear. None of us can hate anymore - or love.
~ Graham Greene
I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
~ Unknown
The love of justice in most men is simply the fear of suffering injustice.
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
Put love first. Entertain thoughts that give life. And when a thought or resentment, or hurt, or fear comes your way, have another thought that is more powerful -- a thought that is love.
~ Mary Manin Morrissey
For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.
~ Francois La Rochefoucauld
I always felt insecure and in the way, but most of all I felt scared. I guess I wanted love more than anything else in the world.
~ Marilyn Monroe
Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.
~ Aristotle
Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
~ James Baldwin