Quotes About Fear

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being.

Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

Keep to Beauty. Have no fear. Learn to bear the unbearable. The raw of all things.

Leah and Gideon were left staring at each other with hollow expressions. Armies marching. War on the way.

Yeah, Jade was chasing me in a fancy limo—it was like a nightmare

Did you ever want something so deeply you were scared to let yourself have it? Like a desire so great you know you will never forgive yourself if you fail. So you hang back. And then you wake up one day and you realize if you don't do it now, it will move out of reach forever.

But I get frightened sometimes," she admitted. "I know. Fear is only fear, though." "And somehow you live without it." "No," he corrected her. "You live with it.

My breath came in panicked gulps. Memories of the image at the bottom of the cistern forced themselves into my head. The open mouth, the clawing hands, the flailing feet . . . I wrapped one arm around the railing and shrank against the wall. "Brad!" He

Those who are afraid to fail may not deserve to succeed.

One of the most ugly aspects of life in Communist China during the Mao Zedong era was the Party's demand that people inform on each other routinely and denounce each other during political campaigns. This practice had a profoundly destructive effect on human relationships. Husbands and wives became guarded with each other, and parents were alienated from their children.

One of the symptoms of senile dementia is suspicion and the other is paranoia.

man's inherent state of being is one of anxiety and hopelessness.

I understood that if ever one wanted to live with someone you cooked for them and they came running. But then it is my idea of hell these days, living with someone. The idea of sharing your life with someone is just utterly ghastly. I know why people do it, but it's never a good idea.

We are all basically selfish, driven by fear of death and the hope of personal gain

I need to be frightened of things. I hate it, but I must need it, because it's what I do.

There are still some people who think that we have Stalin to thank for all our progress, who quake before Stalin's dirty underdrawers, who stand at attention and salute them.

No one except your husband knows of the cautiousness at the heart of your life. Your adulthood has been a progressive retreat from curiosity and wonder, an endless series of delays and procrastinations. You wanted to be so much, once, but life kept on getting in the way... You settled. Shunned creativity, flight, risk, never had the courage to give a dream, any dream, a go.

You don't dare to think ahead too much, for you don't want this melted under the heat of your attention, don't want it gone from your life.

The shame dies. Just like that, so DH Lawrence wrote. Shame, which is fear. AND judgement.

I've not learned the acceptable way of saying you fascinate me...I've not even learned how to say I like you without frightening people away-

Allowables I killed a spider Not a murderous brown recluse Nor even a black widow And if the truth were told this Was only a small spider Sort of papery spider Who should have run When I picked up the book But she didn't And she scared me And I smashed her I don't think I'm allowed To kill something Because I am Frightened.

I didn't have much in the world, but my fears were my own.

The crashing sound of years lost shattered in her ears, and new fears emerged from the looking glass. Sometimes I wonder if she'll ever sing again.

I used to think the only way to be truly alive is to confront your mortality.