Quotes About Fear

Very often, the things that you're most afraid of, are the things that you really just need to go for it.

Nos vies sont les mêmes. Nos vies se débattent, crient dans la nuit, hurlent et tremblent de peur. Infiniment nous cherchons un abri. Un lieu où le vent siffle moins fort. Un endroit où aller. Et cet abri est un visage, et ce visage nous suffit.

Imagination creates some big monsters.

Je craignais de perdre ce que j'avais enfoui dans ma mémoire, tel un bibliothécaire qui refouterait un incendie.

Fear is a false prophet and believes that what it fears is actually coming to pass. At night every trifling occurrence seems more terrible to the besieged, for on account of the darkness no man tells what he sees but always what he hears.

The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.

People only tell lies when there is something they are terribly frightened of losing.

Having a long-term plan--and not casting it aside--is the key to dealing with our fear of loss (loss aversion).

I want to know if you've touched the center of your own sorrow, if you've been opened by life's betrayals, or have become shriveled and closed from fear of further pain.

I want to live with deep intimacy every day of my life. I am guided, sometimes driven, by an ache to take the necessary risks that will let me live close to what is within and around me. And I am sometimes afraid that it will be too much, that I will not have, or be connected to, whatever it takes to be with it all, to bear the exquisite beauty and bone-wrenching sorrow of being fully alive.

I don't want to hear about my death.

En el fondo, la valentía es optimismo. Yo no era optimista porque no era valiente.

Jamás debes evitar el riesgo, aunque el miedo te frene.

Sai la stessa paura che si prova all'inizio di un amore, quando l'intuito ci annuncia le sofferenze che esso ci costerà, e la prudenza ci induce a girarvi intorno senza accostarcisi troppo, ma è un girarvi a spirale, più vicino sempre più vicino, e sai bene che finirai per cadervi dentro: a pagare ogni istante di gioia con mille dolori.

Lenin was always prone to overestimate the physical danger to himself: in this respect he was something of a coward.

Success is on the other side of your comfort zone.

Success is assured when a person fears the pain of regret more than the pain of the process.

To live the life you've always wanted, you must confront the issues you've always avoided.

Courage results when one's convictions are bigger than one's fears.

Without courage, it doesn't matter how good the leader's intentions are.

In life, most people surrender what is possible for what is comfortable.

I would rather face my fears than lose, but most people would rather lose than face their fears.

A person cannot shine light if he is afraid of the dark.

If you want to live the life you've always wanted, you will have to change some things you've always avoided.