Quotes About Fear

The truth is we all want to be known. And we're simultaneously afraid of it. We want to be unmasked, and the person who can unmask us wins our respect.

I had forgotten how awful it was to be a woman alone--the leering glances, the catcalls, the offers of help which you dared not accept for fear of incurring a sexual debt. The awful sense of vulnerability. No wonder I had gone from man to man and always wound up married. How could I have left Bennett? How could I have forgotten?

You're afraid he'll leave you and you'll fall apart. You don't know that you can get along without him and you're afraid to find out because then your whole potty theory will come tumbling down. You'll have to stop thinking of yourself as weak and dependent and you hate that.

Glitch or not, we seem to need a power greater than ourselves. We seem to need enormous shadows of divinity stalking us. We know we are weak. Alcoholics are, above all, lonely, fearful pepole who make a fetish of loneliness, who think they--we--are too good to be part of the human race. And we have to be humbled to remember who we are--stumbling human beings, more ape than angel.

The Greeks—who knew everything—knew that immortality without youth was to be feared rather than desired.

Many people today believe that cynicism requires courage. Actually, cynicism is the height of cowardice. It is innocence and open-heartedness that requires the true courage-however often we are hurt as a result of it.

I am unimaginably old—fifty. Only witches live to be fifty! Good women die in childbirth at seventeen as I nearly did. By fifty I should be dead or a crone—with my dark looks and my somewhat crooked spine—which I have always disguised with capes of multicolored silk. My youth is gone, but my vanity is not. How can I still dream of love at fifty? I must be mad!

Y el problema es que si no arriesgas nada, arriesgas aún más.

It is vital that we try to see religious myths not as immutable go- (or goddess-) given truths, but as reflections of human society and fear.

I went for years not finishing anything because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged.

If you don't risk anything, you risk even more.

Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places where it leads.

She is the witch. You wish you were she. Except when the time comes for burning.

Nothing will go wrong,Micheal said soothingly. Me and you? We've been through to much together. And your too unpleasant to die.Too bossy.God will keep you down here for a while until you learn your lesson and start learning to work and play well with others. Now your talking.Will you go with me a week from Friday when I get my biopsy? Wild horses and an evil head nurse with rubber gloves couldn't keep me away. Now your just being gross.

Dac? pronunÈ›i cuvântul MOARTE într-un spital, nimeni nu aude. E sigur c? se las? t?cerea È™i-apoi se schimb? subiectul.

le prime cose che Hélène percepiva nella gente erano la mediocrità, la meschinità, la vigliaccheria, la gelosia, l'insicurezza, la paura; forse perché quei sentimenti erano presenti in lei, li individuava subito negli altri. Antoine invece era portato ad attribuire al prossimo intenzioni nobili, motivazioni di valore, ideali, come se non avesse mai sollevato il coperchio di un'anima per scoprire fino a che punto puzzava e brulicava di vermi.

Je crois qu'on fait la même erreur pour la vie. Nous oublions que la vie est fragile,friable, éphémère. Nous faisons tous semblant d'être immortels.

En fait, je n'ai pas peur de l'inconnu. C'est just que ça m'ennuie de perdre ce que je connais.

Moi, je n'ai pas peur, Momo. Je sais ce qu'il y a dans mon Coran.

W gruncie rzeczy wszystkie wyjaÅ›nienia majÄ… to samo ?ródÅ'o: strach, ?e ?adnego siÄ™ nie znajdzie.

Le persone temono di morire perché hanno paura dell'ignoto. Ma per l'appunto, che cos'è l'ignoto? Ti propongo, Oscar, di non aver paura, ma fiducia. Guarda il viso di Dio sulla croce: subisce il dolore fisico, ma non prova dolore morale perché ha fiducia. Perciò i chiodi lo fanno soffrire meno. Si ripete: mi fa male ma non può essere un male. Ecco. È questo il beneficio della fede.

Ce le reproÅŸezi tu de fapt, Oscar? – Le e fric? de mine, Tanti Roz. N-au curajul s?-mi vorbeasc?. Åži cu cât le e lor mai fric?, cu atât am ÅŸi eu impresia c? sunt un mosntru. De ce par atât de terorizaÅ£i?

The frightened individual seeks for somebody or something to tie his self to; he cannot bear to be his own individual self any longer, and he tries frantically to get rid of it and to feel security again by the elimination of this burden: the self.

To be loved because of one's merit, because one deserves it, always leaves doubt; maybe I did not please the person whom I want to love me, maybe this, or that - there is always a fear that love could disappear.