Quotes About Fear

Anyone who doesn't believe that the forest is a deadly place has never been lost in one.

When you spend all your time worrying that the devil is right behind you, eventually you start seeing him whether he's there or not.

If I wasn't dead already, I'd said I was having a heart attack.

If I went in the cage, I was going to end up eaten alive. That was actually one of my top five ways not to die...

When I was younger, I'd wanted someone to promise me that things would work out and nothing bad would ever happen again. But I understood now that that was a child's wish. No one could promise that. No one. The grown-ups could try, but they couldn't promise, not and mean it.

she was just that shiver that makes you walk faster at night. You don't know why you do it, but some part of you remembers that the dark is never really empty. ~Anita

One of the many reasons that Padma will always be a secondary power on the Council is his belief that all power must be taken, that all power must come through fear. True power comes when others offer it to you and you merely accept it as a gift, not as the spoils of some personal war.

Important safety tip - never look a vampire in the eye.

It feels like we're in a Harry Potter book talking about He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named.

What does it mean when the monsters are so afraid of you that you make them cry? That maybe monster depends on which end of the gun your on, or that I was just that good at my job.

It makes me nervous when you keep answering all my questions with 'I don't know.' Me, too, I said.

Once, the belief that his love would heal all the wounds, and finally make me feel safe, had been true. True, and a lie. Love is real, and false, even true love. Because love alone cannot keep you safe, if there is still a trembling fear inside you. Still a knowledge of what it was like to love and believe and have it all taken away.

What are you afraid of?' I asked. 'Airplanes, guns, large predators, ad master vampires.

it was more like two scared kids huddling in the dark when they knew the monster under the bed wasn't just real, but was holding a grudge.

I had a moment to visualize Larry out in the dark all alone, unarmed except for his cross. The thought made my skin cold. I opened my mouth to yell at him and closed it. Never dress anyone down in public unless it's an object lesson. I said, Any tracks? I gave myself a dozen brownie points for yelling. Do I look like Tonto? Beside the ground is just grass and it's been so dry lately. I don't think there'd be any tracks.

All fear is the same no matter the cause of it; you conquer or are conquered by it. I wasn't into losing, not even to myself, maybe especially to myself.

Too much fear will paralyze you, but too little fear will make you careless.

Everyone turned towards me. The two female vamps smiled, most unpleasantly. They looked at me like I was a piece of candy and they wondered what sort of center I had. Soft and gooey, or hard with a nut in the middle? I'd had men undress me with their eyes, but I'd never had anything trying to picture what I'd look like with my skin off. Yikes.

There is no loyalty in fear, only resentment

I am an animator. I am the Executioner. But now I know I'm something else. The one thing my Grandmother Flores feared most. I am a necromancer. The dead are my specialty.

I'm Christian, but if God is truly a God of love, then why would he have a private torture chamber where he put people that he was supposed to love and forgive to be punished forever? If you actually read the Bible, the idea of hell like in the movies and most books was invented by a writer. Dante's Inferno was ripped off by the Church to give people something to be afraid of, to literally scare people into being Christian.

You're the scarest motherfucker in the room.

Laurell K. Hamilton

Ms. Harrison paled so that the makeup floated on her suddenly pale skin like impressionist water lilies.