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Quotes About Fear

I'm afraid of everything. Myself. Mother. Lily. Friends who haunt me in the night. Even going to school, which is something I asked for. If I have attitude, it is hiding somewhere deep, someplace I'm afraid I may never find. Jenna
~ Mary E. Pearson
I'm guessing they planned to kill your whole family once you gave them everything they needed.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Freedoms are never won once and for all, Kazimyrah. They come and go, like the centuries. I cannot grow lazy. Memories are short. It is the forgetting that I fear." That was what I feared too. Forgetting.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Freedoms are never won once and for all, Kazimyrah. They come and go, like the centuries. I cannot grow lazy. Memories are short. It is the forgetting that I fear.
~ Mary E. Pearson
I love you... When I asked What is this? I already knew. I knew what I felt, what I was certain you felt too, but I was afraid to say it, because it was all new to me. It seemed too soon, too impossible. But everything about us didn't just feel right, it felt like something rare, something delicate that I was afraid of breaking. Something that only comes along once in a lifetime.
~ Mary E. Pearson
The world was so much safer when you only had yourself to lose.
~ Mary E. Pearson
She is afraid I will get lost. Lost adj. 1. No longer known. 2. Unable to find the way. 3. Ruined or destroyed. I'm afraid I already am.
~ Mary E. Pearson
Luella, she kept gettin' paler and paler, and she never took her eyes off my face. There was somethin' awful about the way she looked at me and never spoke a word.
~ Unknown
I have been afraid of you, Mr. Robert Audley," she thought, "but perhaps the time may come in which you will have cause to be afraid of me.
~ Mary Elizabeth Braddon
everyone knows it's not safe to go out on a brimstone night especially with you
~ Unknown
Everybody has their sadness. And most people are scared of it.
~ Mary Gaitskill
In my diary I wrote, "I fear my father's anger, but I fear my mother's love.
~ Mary Gaitskill
It had always been like this, even when she was a child. And now, fifty-five years old, happily married for thirty-two years, with one child, beautiful and gifted nineteen-year-old Susan, Rosemary could not be anything but a constant worrier, a living Cassandra. Something is going to go wrong.
~ Mary Higgins Clark
The ones who are innocent help because they trust us. And the ones who aren't so innocent pretend to trust us because they're afraid of looking guilty.
~ Mary Higgins Clark
Ik benijd Benedetta di Chimici haar plekje onder de grond, waar ze niet langer voor het leven van haar kinderen hoeft te vrezen. - Graziella Nucci
~ Mary Hoffman
Hij zei: "Bell is voor de duvel niet bang," wat dus absoluut niet waar is, maar toch...' 'Ik geloof dat je wel een kansje maakt.
~ Mary Hoffman
Children also use pretend play to confront and assume some control over their fears. That is why playing doctor and being the one to give the shots is so popular with children. Child-controlled play can reinforce specific cognitive tasks such as object permanence. Children engage in various forms of appear-disappear play beginning at about the developmental age of six months as a way to explore issues of attachment and develop object permanence.
~ Unknown
The loss of a parent is a young child's greatest fear. To be abandoned, whether through termination of parental rights, voluntary relinquishment, death, or any other means, is a child's worst nightmare come true.
~ Unknown
Saving money is the best antidote for fear.
~ Unknown
It was only for two years, and I jumped from family to family. It's very scary.
~ Mary J. Blige
She didn't fear death itself, welcoming release from her long struggle between mind and body.
~ Unknown
I think that marriage is always the triumph of hope over fear.
~ Mary Jo Putney
That is the definition of true courage," the teacher said quietly. "Being frightened, yet still doing what is right.
~ Mary Jo Putney
Aristophanes said that boys throw stones at frogs in jest, but the frogs, they die in earnest. You're going to break my life into splinters, then move on without a second thought. Yes, my lord, you terrify me.
~ Mary Jo Putney