Quotes About Fear

I don't understand how to grow up," she cried, sinking into Robin's arms. "I'm so scared we're going to die here and I'll never figure it out.

her fear filling the small room like a third person.

An astute observer wrote in 1924 that American voters preferred to "cherish the unrealities they have absorbed" based upon "the primal instinct to defeat the side they hate or fear.

How could educated Americans have denied the effect of such persistent prejudice in distorting the southern class system? The reason is actually rather obvious: a fear of unleashing genuine class upheaval

3: I can't wear my heart on my sleeve or it'll be crushed.

The promises of God provide a powerful antidote to all our fears and free us to step out in faith and surrender.

We stay in the same old situations because we're comforted by the familiar, even if the familiar is terrible.

let's say you think you're committed to starting your own business. But your underlying commitment is actually to stay safe and small right where you are. Even as you make efforts to start your own business, some part of you is sabotaging those efforts and ensuring you fail.

I'm only as brave as I have to be . . . and I do not want to have to be this brave.

Many patients are so terrified of emotional intimacy that they are driven over and over again to provoke crises that allow them to distance with impunity (see Hedges, 2000).

Change fear into fun. Change problems into projects. Go in and adjust the frequency and it will change the manifestation.

I am wild, if you like; but I stayed in my burrow a long, long time, - nibbling your straws and snapping at your fingers, but always just a little out of reach. Until at last I got to trust you so much that one day I ventured out for a minute, - and you threw rocks at me. And I will never come out again.

The truth of the matter is that many health professionals have an intrinsic mistrust of nature. We are taught as pediatricians, for example, that a baby is sick unless proved otherwise. This isn't usually said in so many words, but it is the message behind what we do. The fear of litigation plays a large part in this. As pediatricians, we're always assuming the worst,

We tend to have a limited concept of spiritual death as saying no only to things we want or covet -- our guilty pleasures and selfish ambitions. But in reality, it means dying inwardly to whatever has control over us. The thing that really controls us may not be what we want. It may be what we fear. Fear can dominate our lives just as strongly as desire.

She was also correct that I was guided by my fear and my hope that my good behavior would buy my mother's love. It hadn't.

Pegg, cowering in her bedroom, asked her housekeeper to check on the ailing Varick. Then, willing herself in to a frenzy, she tore at her hair and clothes, weeping, her sobs accelerating in volume.

The person who fears death, will never do anything worthy of one who is alive," as Seneca says.

All the words I had prepared turned coward and fled my mind like conscripts deserting a battlefield.

Oh shit, Mary whispered in the dark.

Men did not want to get caught, but this fear wasn't there for the right reasons. They didn't want their wives to discover they were having an affair because they would make it harder for them to get away with it the next time.

Two different kinds of people exist: Those who wade cautiously into the shallows and those who throw themselves headlong into the roaring surf.

having children seems to demand a completely different level of courage

I think anger is often a kind of recycled fear.

Every noise, whether inside or out, had me opening my eyes wide to search out any possible danger until exhaustion finally claimed me and I slept.