Quotes About Fear

What is it doing to me? Will the darkness consume me?

Qué significa que las pesadillas sueñen con la paz? ¿Que lassombras suspiren por la luz?

Being home always made her feel like she was walking on a high wire, waiting for a gust of wind to knock her to the ground. The

Studios, because they are investing a great deal of money in movies, they want a guarantee that when they hire somebody that person can deliver for them. Everything is fear based, so they pigeonhole people. But I've written everything, from Westerns to sci-fi to dramedy, I've done it all.

But fear is confusing. It tears you in two. Half of you wants to run far, far away, but the other half is paralyzed, frozen, immovable. And the hard part is that you never know which half is going to win.

Now he knew why people were so scared of ghosts. It was because ghosts were so full of fear themselves.

The man who cannot blush, and who has no feelings of fear, has reached the acme of impudence.

They are consumed by the fear of desire.

Escric perquè m'agrada escriure. Si no em semblés exagerat diria que escric per agradar-me a mi. Si de retop el que escric agrada als altres, millor. Potser és més profund. Potser escric per afirmar-me. Per sentir que sóc... I acabo. He parlat de mi i de coses essencials en la meva vida, amb una certa manca de mesura. I la desmesura sempre m'ha fet molta por

Solo los muertos no me dan miedo. No piden nada; por eso me dan tanta pena y los quiero tanto, y aún más cuando a veces pienso que soy una muerta viva... que ya habría muerto hace muchas muchas vidas de otra gente... Hay que enterrarlos en lo más profundo de la tierra para que puedan reposar para siempre muy cerca de las raíces. Y convertirse en árboles.

Give your enemy a face, If he is human, do not dehumanize him. Know him and know why he is your enemy. If your enemy is within you, understand what it is and why you are afraid. Put a face on your fear. When you understand it, and it is no longer vague and shapeless, you will find that your fear is no longer so formidable.

Do you know the kind of things that live up there?...things without names 'cause no one who's seen 'em has lived long enough to give them any name besides 'AAAARG!

Sabía que lo esencial en esos casos era vencer la timidez; ser tajante y mostrarse decidida. Antes de llegar hasta allí yo misma me había hecho un lavado de cerebro para mentalizarme. Nada de tener miedo. Pero si el miedo apuntaba, había que considerar que también el miedo es un derivado de la esperanza; una especie de esperanza al revés. Todo era cuestión de enderezarla. (P. 64)

We sat in an awkward silence for some time. I wondered why, after all he had been through with his mother, Eugene welcomed another depressive into his life. Wasn't he afraid of the consequences? How did he escape the contagious effects of mental illness?

I've done one and a half of almost everything. But never two of anything. When you do two of something, you are no longer that bright, promising amateur. When you do two of anything, you must be judged, and I could never stand that." He

Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life.

Power is anathema to intimacy, as it is to love, because when you have power, you have fear. So if you are trying to get closer to someone than you are right now, try recognizing their power rather than showing them yours.

My life story is structured by reckless reenactments of panic and flight.

Our bodies made us shiver in fear and disgust. We looked in the mirror and prepared ourselves to be horrified.

She tried to shriek for help, to cry out against the blinding agony, but her mouth wouldn't open. The scream stalled in her throat and she gagged. Oh my God. She couldn't move her lips. She couldn't say one word.

Ne bojim se ljubavi. Bojim se rizika. I zavisnosti. I moguceg bola. Podrzavam u sebi spremnost na odstupanje. Da ne bude gore." —

Mothers never worry over nothing, but it is true that sometimes we worry over things we can't control.

Uns não vivem por temer morrer; eu não morro por temer viver.

O medo foi, afinal, o mestre que mais me fez desaprender. Quando deixei a minha casa natal, uma invisível mão roubava-me a coragem de viver e a audácia de ser eu mesmo. No horizonte vislumbravam-se mais muros do que estradas. Nessa altura, algo me sugeria o seguinte: que há neste mundo mais medo de coisas más do que coisas más propriamente ditas.