Quotes About Fear

Jumping out a window five hundred feet above ground is not usually my idea of fun. Especially when I'm wearing bronze wings and flapping my arms like a duck.

I remember that feeling from when I was a kid. When I was scared I would relax and say to myself, "The worst thing that can happen is I'll go to God" when I was afraid.

Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone's lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate.

If not to God, you will surrender to the opinions or expectations of others, to money, to resentment, to fear, or to your own pride, lusts, or ego. You were designed to worship God and if you fail to worship Him, you will create other things (idols) to give your life to. You are free to choose, what you surrender to but you are not free from the consequence of that choice.

I always felt like my future was at stake every time I stepped on stage and that was kind of hair-raising. At some point I just went, don't be frightened, you can't do anything wrong, it's your show.

A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.

Spirituality really lost its way when it became a stick to beat people with: 'Do this or you'll burn in hell.

Well, I am now convinced there is no kind of fear or anxiety anyone has to live with.

I... do... not... do... lightning.

Et je redoute l'hiver parce que c'est la saison du comfort!

For inst. when the telephone rings now days I am scared to death that its somebody asking us to go somewheres for dinner or somewheres. Six yrs. ago I was afraid it wasn't. At 29 home was like they say on the vaudeville stage, a place to go when all the other joints was closed up. At 35 its a place you never leave without a loud squawk.

I was often overwhelmed as a boy by feelings of anxiety, and by profound embarrassment about the kind of family that I came from, my fears made worse by my inability to share them with anyone else or even to comprehend what they meant.

Fear was just a deceptive veil obscuring the unknown.

My last thought before falling asleep was that we are all a lot more capable of conquering obstacles and fears than we think.

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.

There is not going to be any change unless we can begin to talk about any little fear, any little hatred, any little bias that we might have and to admit that all human beings have them.

From my own experience, I realized that there are many other reasons we procrastinate, starting with fear.

Not when she was trapped inside these walls. It was a prison she'd made for herself—to keep safe. Only she didn't feel safe. Or alive.

Too afraid of dying to really live.

Nightmares happened when you slept, and sleep was the demon he chased at night

If you're afraid to die, you're afraid to live. You can't have one without the other.

I was asking my friend who has children, "What if I have a baby and I dedicate my life to it and it grows up to hate me. And it blames everything wrong with its life on me." And she said, "What do you mean, 'if'?"

I want to have children, but my friends scare me. One of my friends told me she was in labor for thirty-six hours. I don't even want to do anything that feels good for thirty-six hours.

I don't want to die in a car accident. When I die it'll be a glorious day. It'll probably be a waterfall.