Quotes About Fear

You said I could have anything I wanted, but I just couldn't say it out loud.

The fear: that nothing survives. The greater fear: that something does.

and suddenly darkness, suddenly only darkness.

you know that a boy who likes boys is a dead boy, unless he keeps his mouth shut, which is what you didn't do

The machine of the world- if you don't grab on, you begin to tremble. And if you do grab on, then everything trembles.

here is the fear of the other thing, the relentless thing, your body drowning in gravity. This is the in-between, the waiting that happens in the space between

If you leave me here," the guy on the floor said, "he'll kill me tomorrow morning." Parker looked at him. "So you've still got tonight," he said.

The office women looked at him and shivered. They knew he was a bastard, they his big hands were born to slap with, they knew his face would never break into a smile when he looked at a woman. They knew what he was, they thanked God for their husbands, and still they shivered. Because they knew how he would fall on a woman in the night. Like a tree".

Please...they'll kill me. I'll kill you...worry about me.

Oh my God," he said. "Oh my God." "You'll see him soon," Parker said.

She's dead. So is your fat pansy. You can be dead, too, if you want.

And that is how he would describe courage: pretending to be brave. Fearlessness is stupidity. Courage is not letting the fear defeat you.

Courage is not the absence of fear, he taught me. It's learning to overcome it.

That was the moment when I understood more clearly than ever before that the liberation struggle was not so much about liberating blacks from bondage, it was about liberating white people from fear.

In the age of AIDS I had been making it a practice to imagine a skull and crossbones on the forehead of every possibly available comely gay man I found myself alone with, but Slonski's kept fading in, fading out.

In driving, one assumes the danger of destroying life, beginning with one's own.

Sometimes they run. Those are the ones I find out in the dive bars, the sex clubs, the dark reflections in the night. They are always looking over their shoulders, because the evil of their acts is like a black halo ringing their heads, neon flashing vacancy, broken burnt-out letters, incomplete.

My image was all daring deeds, until my swash began to buckle a bit

I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.

Everything we know, believe, want, fear, and hope for, our thinking tells us. It follows, then, that the quality of our thinking is the primary determinant of the quality of our lives.

We were taught to be God-fearing," my mother said. "One who loves does not brandish fear or require it.

There was a feeling in him like a bruise, a purple ache that set between his ribs. He tasted a cry building at the back of his throat. It was too familiar and made him fearful.

There was a feeling in him like waiting for a punishment.

But since Clark's triumphs were those of a war leader, that is, the products of fear, pain, and opportunity, they were not stable. Clark's mistake was to think them the larger triumphs of alliance.