Quotes About Fear

I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life—and only then will I be free to become myself.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

I get superstitious in late summer.

Go tap dance in a mine field Parker! - J. Jonah Jameson - By David Michelinie

Fear," said Lobsang. "An instinct that prevents many people from taking actions that they know, deep down inside, would liberate them. Like a bird in a cage whose door has been opened, we are free to go out in search of fulfillment, but fear makes us look for all kinds of reasons not to.

The problem," observed a tall Indian man sitting next to Serena, "is that we get stuck in our comfort zone, even when it isn't very comfortable.

Would I have fared better if I had stood my ground and stared down my pursuers? Could so-called self-preservation sometimes backfire and become the very cause of pain?

Thinking too much of happiness is suffering" the Dalai lama said " Anxiety, depression, resentment, fear – these become much worse with too much attention to the self. The mantra me, me, me is not so good

we are free to go out in search of fulfillment, but fear makes us look for all kinds of reasons not to.

As long as we kept on practicing loving kindness and creating the grounds for positive future outcomes, we need have no fear of what might arise.

learned late in life to obey my wife's commands without question, but even though I learned I only do it intermittently. I live in terror of her judgments but I rarely take the next step of following her instructions. In my consciousness my wife is a brooding, metaphysical omnipresence who has saved my life.

The first time I rode a bike I was four or five. I crashed into the back of a car.

I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

Wonder if Stephen King's like us or like them..?

Wonder if Stephen King's like us or them..?

I fear I am losing my mind. I do not mean "losing my grasp of reality." I know perfectly well what is happening. But I am powerless to prevent the outcome. Each day, I have less strength of mind to resist.

People are so convinced of God's meekness they no longer fear his wrath. (Who fears a raging lamb?) God is not seen as a judge who holds us accountable for our actions; he is a protector who watches over us. He's no longer a disciplining father; he is a doting grandfather.

They both stared at the microscope as if it might hop off the bench and chase them around the room.

Why does it always feel like I'm standing on the edge of some kind of big, black pit?" "There are a lot of pits," Donovan said. "The most interesting lives are lived walking around the rims.

It wasn't so much the fear of Los Escorpiones as the fact he could not see them. He could not hear them. He felt them like prickles of ice walking on spider feet over his skin. He sensed them in the hairs at the nape of his neck. He tasted the fear of those surrounding him, and an answering…something…in the darkness.

What is that?" Isabella asked him. "Courage," he said. "I'm with you – we kill the damn thing, whatever the hell it is, but I'm not going in there unprepared." "You have weapons? You have something to give you strength?" "I got beer, lady. I got a shotgun, and I got beer.

the greatest lie that age tells about youth is that it's somehow free of care, worry or fear. Good God, doesn't anyone remember?

This, I thought, is why we have comfort zones, because they are comfortable. What can possibly be gained by leaving them?

and it occurred to me then, just as it does now, that the greatest lie that age tells about youth is that it's somehow free of care, worry or fear.