Quotes About Fear

How I can I speak God's peace to them inside the church if I act scared when I walk past them outside?

We're all of us afraid of many things, but if you make yourself smaller or let your fear confine you, then you really aren't your own person at all—are you? The real question is whether or not you will risk what it takes to be happy.

When I saw the rats the first time, I wanted to drop my basket where it was and run away, but we weren t rich enough for symbolic gestures. So I walked.

We're all of us afraid of many things, but if you make yourself smaller or let your fear confine you, then you really aren't your own person at all—are you? The real question is whether or not you will risk what it takes to be happy." She was referring to Jock, but her words made me think of other things, too. "Are you happy, Karen?" "Not yet. But I mean to be.

Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don't be afraid. —Frederick Buechner

Getting married had been all his idea, but he hadn't told her how very afraid of it he was. He seemed to need to force his way through it anyway, as he did with everything that scared him terribly. He was afraid of marriage and he was afraid of being alone, too.

a lot of the time we don't tell anyone because we can't.

There's so much to lose." "There always is," she said. I sighed and reached for another biscuit. "Are you always this wise, Ruth?" "Only when it comes to other people's lives.

I was just as terrified that even if he did finally choose me, our love wouldn't be the lasting kind.

Is it nice? It's hard to care about people. You end up fretting all the time and feeling helpless, hoping they'll live forever. Only no one does.

Ernest always said there was a season for everything. A season to love and be loved. To work and rest your bones and your spirit. To dream and to doubt, to fear and to fly. What season was this, then, if not one of ruin?

That's the problem with going into the world, isn't it? You actually have to face things you find you don't want to know.

my doubt is loud,

Do you think I'll stop worrying when I know he loves me for sure?" "Just listen to yourself." "There's so much to lose." "There always is," she said.

Somehow anything unknown was its own minefield. Waiting for shelling was worse than the shelling itself. Once the attack started, you knew exactly where you stood and could respond. But the waiting. Yes, the waiting was the worst part.

When we'd settled out of earshot, she said, "Sorry if Blix and I scared you away last night. It's not often we're alone. Being married to other people will do that.

We met when he took Ben and me on safari. Blix always seduces the wives if he's given enough time. He likes them trembling with fear, I suppose…at the precipice of mortal danger." She raised a feathery eyebrow. "I don't think he counted on keeping me, but that was almost two years ago.

Those things are as real as anything else, though, and I'll have to fly through them. Straight through the sickening dips and air pockets, because you can't chart a course around anything you're afraid of. You can't run from any part of yourself, and it's better that you can't.

Do you think Jock will come after me?" Boy asked when I recounted the whole story back at Soysambu. "Now that he knows about us?" "Why would he? His whole argument has been about keeping up appearances and avoiding gossip. If anything, he'll make my life harder or dig in more about the divorce." We

because you can't chart a course around anything you're afraid of. You can't run from any part of yourself, and it's better that you can't. Sometimes I've thought it's only our challenges that sharpen us, and change us, too—a

He would eat me here or drag me off to a glade or valley only he knew of, a place from which I'd never return. The last thought I remember having was This is how it feels, then. This is what it means to be eaten by a lion.

We're all of us afraid of many things, but if you make yourself smaller or let your fear confine you, then you really aren't your own person at all—are you? The real question is whether or not you will risk what it takes to be happy." She

We're all of us afraid of many things, but if you make yourself smaller or let your fear confine you, then you really aren't your own person at all—are you?

He was afraid of marriage and he was afraid of being alone, too.