Quotes About Fear

Do you still look at each other like you once did, back at the beginning of the story when everything was a question you were too afraid to find the answer to?

People were supposed to cry at weddings; they just weren't supposed to cry because they suspected that the bride was going to die.

Smith answered immediately, writing at midnight on June 22. "We dare not come," he insisted—three times. "Your Excellency promises protection. Yet, at the same time, you have expressed fears that you could not control

a display of temper is more effective if used sparingly. I just don't believe that you can get the most out of people if they are perpetually afraid of you.

Be careful, okay, when you go there. Talia was really scared of this Malvolia chick. She could be dangerous." "What's she going to have—an assault weapon?" "Worse," I say. "She's got magical powers.

I wouldn't have done it, but it scared me that I thought of it at all. I scared me.

I love you' I thought. But I didn't say it. It was not that I feared she would laugh in my face ... My fear was a greater one--that she won't say it back.

To be worthy of a princess, you must face your dragon... Your greatest fear.

I am a coward. I am a cowardly coward, full of cowardice.

People are very fearful these days.

She understood it wasn't an actual fear of flying so much as a fear of being without control, which was often the crux of most fears. If you had control over a situation, there was nothing to fear.

Most abhor Wallowing with the Weak yet fear Strutting with the Strong

De este comandante aprendemos que el coraje no consiste en la ausencia de miedo, sino en la conciencia de que existe algo más importante.

My biggest fear is that the world may become drowned in artistic mediocrity.

There is much to be said for the artwork that answers horror by rejecting or transcending it.

It's kind of a dark little life . . . being a paranoiac, but it's also not without its comforts.

Was there? Was it true? Or was it just grown-ups making you scared with their own fears?

The horrible thing about the Two Minutes Hate was not that one was obliged to take part, but that it was impossible to avoid joining in. Within thirty seconds any pretence was always unnecessary. A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge-hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's

Nicodemus was barely able to speak a timid apologetic word in Christ's behalf, and Joseph of Arimathea was a disciple "secretly," for fear of the Jews. These were hardly the persons to send forth as missionaries of the cross--men so fettered by social ties and party connections, and so enslaved by the fear of man. The apostles of Christianity must be made of sterner stuff.

The sacrifice is usually chained to the rock. She does not usually dance out to meet her monster.

a woman with a lover's impatience with the whole world, a woman who feared when she did not get what she wanted that it meant she was not loved by creation itself; her need for success at seduction was like her need for dinner or breakfast. When

I was unsure how they fed themselves, what they would eat and drink, they were not unsure at all and this terrified me. I

In some way I had never known how to express, I'd feared I would have to become the first of my kind, whatever my kind was, should I be allowed to survive—that which history has never seen before.

Divide et impera must be the motto of every nation that either hates or fears us.