Quotes About Fear

Did you ever notice you always attack monsters with sticks? You need to start carrying a bazooka in that backpack of yours," Emmet complained. Spradlin, Michael P.

Are you ready for nuclear Armageddon?

we're beholden not to look away from the things we fear or revere.

But then where is she? It's a simple question but once it's been asked, a floodgate of questions follow: What if something's happened?

It's so deceptively easy to get people to stop trusting their own senses. They cut you off and then put fear in you.

You can count on your enemies," said Emilia now, "but sometimes it's the one who smiles who keeps you up at night." There

Only occasionally can you glimpse through the embrasures of an otherwise perfectly polite person to see the cannons aimed out, only in a certain glint of light do the eyeteeth become fangs. We are driven by desire and fear. Only in our solitary hungers do we find ourselves capable of the most magnificently unexpected sins.

A writer is very much like the captain on a star ship facing the unknown. When you face the blank page and you have no idea where you're going. It can be terrifying, but it can also be the adventure of a lifetime.

Our task in life consists precisely in a form of letting go of fear and expectations, an attempt to purely give oneself to the impact of the present.

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

Is it safe?" Evadne asked. "In the heart of the lair of prehistoric people who eat humans? Probably not." Pg 197

His guilt swelled up, churning like a paddle wheel in his stomach. He wanted desperately to flee. How do you escape something that comes from inside? The revenant, he knew, searched for him.

His eyes became wild, searching for reassurance in the faces surrounding him. Instead he saw the opposite—awful affirmation of his fears.

Unlike the others, Bridger understood instantly. In his mind he had seen this vision before. His guilt swelled up, churning like a paddle wheel in his stomach. He wanted desperately to flee. How do you escape something that comes from inside? The revenant, he knew, searched for him.

Cause he got everything to lose.

A lot of men not only fear emotional pain, they are afraid to be transparent and vulnerable. To let an outsider even glimpse their confusion or suffering is a taboo that starts in adolescence and becomes more entrenched with adulthood.

In general men keep their internal lives–and their more complex emotions–closely guarded, because either they don't understand them or they are afraid of being betrayed by them.

Jealousy is a terrible thing. I know all the psychological triggers. The fear of losing control, the fear of loss, the fear of abandonment, neglect and loneliness...But the most destructive thing about jealousy is that it kills what it values-the love you want to save won't survive the constraints of jealousy. There is no entitlement. Love is either equal or a tragedy.

I know the answer now, but I'm so frightened I've forgotten the question.

So when you start getting scared, remember that the longest night is only eight hours and the longest hour is only sixty minutes. Dawn is always going to come - unless you don't want it to.

You're scared of dying.' 'Better than being scared of living.

I was so worried about rocking the boat, I failed to spot the iceberg.

The whole idea of getting married and having children terrifies me. What if becoming a parent doesn't make me grow up? It could be just a cheap disguise. It's not cheap.

I buy onions every time I'm in the grocery store, not because I need them, but because I fear not having an onion when I do need it. Not having an onion in the kitchen is like working with a missing limb.