Quotes About Fear

Enjoy being bold, and if that is scary at first, marvel at your ability to walk through fear.

People that are hiding something deep within themselves, will live a life cloaked in total anxiety.

Stare your fears down and they will eventually disappear.

The fear of failure has killed many of hopes and dreams.

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

I have heard men snore till I was really afraid they would choke, but as for acknowledging that they had been asleep—never!

Our daily routine was soon working smoothly, and everyone gave the impression of being eminently fitted for his post. We constituted a little republic on board the "Gjöa." We had no strict laws. I know myself how irksome this strict discipline is. Good work can be done without the fear of the

The witching hour, somebody had once whispered to her, was a special moment in the middle of the night when every child and every grown-up was in a deep deep sleep, and all the dark things came out from hiding and had the world all to themselves.

You cannot blame a dull dating life on a lack of attractive singles if you are too afraid to get involved. If you want to date, then you have to get out and meet people. This goes for women as well as men. You will not progress if you are too scared to open up and interact. A fear of rejection will only keep you in a relational rut. Thus, to stimulate your social life, look for ways to get involved with other singles and make yourself available.

you cannot conquer fear until you have learned what it is you're afraid of." Then she added, "I had passed thirty-five before I realized that one can no more neglect chronic unhappiness than one can neglect an infected tooth. If misery, like a tooth, is left too long to fester the infection spreads and deepens.

Rule of thumb: You should be terrified of at least one of the questions you're asking in every conversation.

It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation

I could die. That was obviously an option all along—and I knew it—but in that moment, in that gloomy room, for some unknown reason … it finally sunk in. Like, really sunk in. And it sunk in hard. I felt the floor tip under me. I don't mean that in a fancy-pants, writing way. I mean it felt like the floor actually tipped under my feet—severely—and then dropped away.

There are some things people see in toilets that they wish they hadn't. What Trevor Hawkins sees might even cost him his life.

Prendergast's face appeared even whiter, his veins even blacker, like a living corpse. He kept twitching, shaking. His eyes shot around him as if he was surrounded by invisible, swooping demons.

Learning to drive is a scary thing for a parent. I had to basically lie to get the keys when I was a kid.

We procrastinate when we fear a threat to our sense of worth and independence, as a method of avoiding difficult situations.

Rule 1: You can't make a good buying decision when you're excited. • Rule 2: You can't make a good selling decision when you're afraid.

All decisions – good, bad and nothing – are unknowns. Don't waste your life stuck in the void of non-decision, fearing the unknown, as all is unknown. There are good and bad decisions in all good decisions. A bad decision may give you a short sharp pain, but the void of non-decisions will give you a slow, creep-up-on-you ache for a lifetime.

Fear of rejection can trigger deep fears within us, because as humans we have evolved to live in groups for our survival and in the distant past, exclusion from the group might have meant annihilation and death.

Stay away from the Zombies.

Not being able to protect her from things was the most frightening thing I'd ever felt, and it kicked in as soon as we got together. With every year we spent together, I became more conscious that I now had an infinitely expanding number of reasons to be afraid. I had something to lose.

I was totally clueless about social interaction, and completely scared of girls. All I knew was that music was going to make girls fall in love with me.

I felt knots untie themselves, knots I didn't know were there. I could already tell there were things happening deep inside of me that were irreversible. Is there any scarier word than "irreversible"? It's a hiss of a word, full of side effects and mutilations. Severe tire damage - no backing up. Falling in love with Renee felt that way.