Quotes About Fear

My greatest fear is being somewhere without a book.

There better not be a God because I'll be in big trouble.

I nod yes-no-yes-no and run back to Ama, afraid to tell her about this new auntie who smells of amber and jasmine and possibility.

You show you care, you die. You show you fear, you die. You show nothing, maybe you live.

People who aren't asleep when Ruby comes around have to take sleeping pills. Everyone is afraid of those pills- even the substance- abuse guests.

Most of all, I am afraid of life outside this place

When you've got too much religion that you can't mingle with people, that you're afraid of certain people, you've got too much religion. C. L. Franklin, from a 1955 sermon

They're afraid of being afraid. Losing control of a world they never had controlled in the first place.

Never mind being afraid of eleven right now.

Fear is a matter of misplaced attention. Focus on redirecting it.

Many more have died of attempting love than victory, and countless numbers hate love more than war. Honor has often been the dear prize awarded to the killers of lovers. The epics of war have always and still outnumber the epics of love. For those who love deeply and greatly gain a clairvoyant, excruciating awareness of the fear and suffering of the world along with their joy, which few warriors could endure. Who is not more truly afraid of a love story than of a tale of war?

We have magnificent brains, but we use a great deal of our brilliance to keep ourselves stuck and ignorant, to keep ourselves from not shining. We are so afraid of our beauty and radiance and brilliance because it scared the adults around us when we were children.

It is better for children to love their parents than to be afraid of them,' she said. 'You see, if they're afraid and they do something wrong, they don't come out with it. It just piles up in side them and goes on getting worse.

cowered in her seat. In her head, she heard Emmanouil's voice

But what was I but a scared child lost in a strange world? How could I replace all that been lost? Where was my place in the world?

It all scares me, and it's all like clothes in a dryer that just keep rolling around in my head from one day to the next.

scares that kid

I spent my youth building this wall to keep dangerous things away. I sometimes wonder now if I've kept them inside.

I really hope that all librarians aren't like Gladys Morgan. Because I'd really like , at some point, to walk into a library and not be afraid for my life.

I go to a Catholic school and I'm telling you: invisibility = eternal damnation. You can take it to the bank.

Life is better without the walls, everyone agrees. Still, sometimes I'm afraid of the outside world, and every so often in my private thoughts I wish the walls were still there to protect me. It feels like growing up, as if the safety of the childhood has been stripped away, and I've woken up on the edge of something dangerous. The walls are gone and I can do as I please. It's a freedom I'm not so sure I'm ready for.

There was a time when I thought I turned terrible things over in my mind because I read and wrote too many scary stories. (Note self: start writing about unicorns and bunnies)

The idea of God opening up my life, and seeing all the secrets of my heart, the heart that I know all too well, that idea is frightening to me. I use that fear to drive me to live this day, the only day that I have control of to live for God. I cannot change my sins of yesteryear, nor even of yesterday, and I do not know what the uncertain tides of the future may bring, but I can take the now, this present day, and turn it towards worshipping and loving my God.

Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason toward my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.