Quotes About Fear

In an abusive relationship - we'll talk about men and women - women are often restrained, by words or out of fear, from leaving. They will tolerate abuse up to and including being put to death.

People that say I have a 'fear of commitment' don't understand my relationship with popcorn.

Scary is time passing and sickness and dying and regret and isolation and loneliness and relationship problems - as opposed to a guy in a hockey mask, which didn't seem that scary.

I've been single for so long that I'm scared of being in a relationship.

I think I've developed this pattern of running away when it comes time to fall in love and stay in a relationship.

All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are speedily punished-by fear...be honest with a man and you have no fear. Try to deceive and the relationship deteriorates.

Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government.

From what I've been told, the scariest part of being part of a domestic abuse relationship is the idea that you cannot escape and you cannot get help, that feeling of being stuck.

It is really hard for me to invest time into a relationship because I get kind of freaked out by the thought of doing something that part of my mind keeps telling me is "unproductive".

I didn't know that being in a relationship meant you had to be nice. I thought it meant you had to hack away at the other person until they were beaten down and then were too afraid to leave.

Chicken, yeah, that's me. I'd rather fight an old rogue-vamp in my underwear, with my bare hands, than deal with relationship problems.

Nothing destroys a relationship quicker than our fears of inadequacy and loss.

I don't want content. I want slight fear. Anxiety. I want a longing devotion for a twist of absence. The feeling of complete isn't quite pleasing.

Either, you are in love with someone or you're not. Fear is complicated, not love.

There is nothing more secure in a relationship than a sense of insecurity.

My mother-in-law belongs in Hell, but the devil is afraid she'll end up taking over.

Whether you're scared of getting into a relationship or taking the new job or a confrontation - you have to size fear up.

The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.

I believe that often people even stay in bad relationships longer than they should because the fear of the pain of dating is scarier than the pain of a bad relationship!

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

If our religion is based on salvation, our chief emotions will be fear and trembling. If our religion is based on wonder, our chief emotion will be gratitude.

Why should I fear death? If I am, death is not. If death is, I am not. Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?

In monasteries, seminaries, retreats and synagogues, they fear hell and seek paradise. Those who know the mysteries of God never let that seed be planted in their souls.

We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the moment and let our illusions die.