Quotes About Fear

Mary was too scared to move. Laura was too scared to stand still.

Mary was too scared to move. Laura was too scared to stand to still.

Grace sat up, too frightened to make a sound, and even Laura was horrified, for the stool lay in two pieces. Then Pa laughed. "Never mind, Grace," he said. "You only unscrewed it all the way. But," he said sternly, "you stay off this stool, after this.

How does a panther scream? Laura asked. Like a woman

wolves would eat little girls.

Was that what she meant? Why she cried? Because he was an animal afraid to leave its cage, no words to say what he thought, no thoughts but muddled mad stupid thoughts?

Aren't you going to answer it? Lopez asked. I'm afraid it's my mother, I said. She calls on Sundays? No, she calls whenever things are going badly.

Scarecrows weren't meant to scare the crows, they were meant to scare the corn. It was enough to give a person nightmares. Otherwise, why would so many horror movies have cornfields in them?

I have found that people never love the way they say they do. They can't. They are just people. Full of lies and sentiment and fear.

the loss of certainty as a child had prepared Clara to expect the worst;

the madness of exchanging mediocre but safe happiness for great happiness but possible disaster.

Tomorrow belongs to betrayal. Today is mine and I don't want to waste it being afraid.

We're not afraid of the dark. Our nightmares were born on sultry, summer afternoons.

You can't come wandering around in at all hours of the night looking like you've been- Raped? Not to worry, Estertown's been safe for three years now, Dad.

To gain your heart's desire you have to lose some part of your old life, your old self. To do that you have to have courage; without it, you can't make the leap. And if you don't make the leap you have only three choices: You can hate yourself for not taking the chance, you can hate the person from whom you've sacrificed your happiness, or you can hate the one who offered you happiness, and blame them for your lack of courage, convince yourself it wasn't real.

Most people are afraid of knives. If you show yourself willing to carve someone up, they tend to be afraid of you.

If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.

Death didn't bother me much. Strong Christian and all that. Method of death did. Being eaten alive. One of my top three ways not to go out.

I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do.

It is a very natural human trait to destroy that which frightens us.

The ratman froze, staring at me. Why are you laughing? His voice held just a hint of unease. Good. I was hoping that the vampires would come for me soon and save me. You've got to admit that's funny.

I spend most of my waking hours confronting and destroying things that I fear. A thousand-year-old master vampire was a tall order, but a girl's got to have a goal.

Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who has never been afraid of anything in their entire life is either a liar or lacks imagination.

Sometimes it's not the light in a person you fall in love with, but the dark. Sometimes it's not the optimist you need, but another pessimist to walk beside you and know, absolutely know, that the sound in the dark is a monster, and it really is as bad as you think.