Quotes About Fear

When my dad toured in '91, I think my first gig properly was the Tokyo Dome 50 000 people indoors. That was pretty scary. I was 12, or 13.

There are times when one cannot accept facts for fear of shattering one's being. As I listened to Ian's news, all of Digit's life, since my first meeting with him as a playful little ball of black fluff ten years earlier, passed through my mind. From that moment on, I came to live within an insulated part of myself.

Fear brings out the basest instincts," writes British political scientist Sue Goss, "and narrows our sense of belonging to self-preservation."16

It wasn't you, you know,' Michael said in the end. 'That wasn't the reason. You were just a device in the machine of our breaking, and we needed to break. It's not so bad, when it finally happens. You think the world is going to collapse around you but it doesn't. You can see yourself clearly again. You realise that the fear was the worst thing.

I needed somewhere that wasn't bad. I wanted to be light and happy like you, and I wanted never for you to see the dark. I was scared I would infect you with terrible feelings and pictures in my head of walking out in front of the traffic and - No. That's not for you, see? Not for you to hear. I needed you to be my sunlight, Bessi,' and here George paused and her words became very small, 'I lost mine, I lost it.

The greatest challenge of life is to not die before we die

It's not so bad, when it finally happens. You think the world is going to collapse around you but it doesn't. You can see yourself clearly again. You realise that the fear was the worst thing.

Come with me, Elliot. I have wanted to ask you for weeks, but I have waited, out of fear and doubt and the belief that it's nothing but my own selfishness that wants you with me. I wrestled with this, and chance after chance passed me by. I can't afford to lose this one. Please accept. This time, please accept. And please believe that no matter what, I am, ever, Your Kai

And if the boat sinks?" "And if the sun explodes?" Elliot countered.

You should know that you're exactly the person you think you are." Elliot turned away as the tear escaped. That's what she was afraid of.

I was afraid I sounded a bit comical with all my threats. As if I needed a mustache to twirl like some sort of ancient villain.

When people have guns, you run in the other direction or you're meat. We have a half-dozen deer heads on the wall at home that can tell you that." "Or would," Howard added," if they weren't dead. And deer.

And then Vaughn, too, lost the ability to speak. Or at least, she no longer heard it over the thunderous rush in her ears. She felt his hands on her shoulders, pulling her up and back out of the room, and he seemed to be shouting her name. Dark spots appeared in the corner of her vision. She choked and spluttered and stared into Vaughn's light brown eyes, until they were only things she could see. 'Breathe,' he ordered, and she did. Her lungs inflated, and she gasped., 'Mr. Boddy! He's dead!

I take great pride in not being that girl in the horror movies who knows a serial killer is axing people out in the woods and so decides that a nature walk is a brilliant idea. I'm the lock-myself-in-the-basement-with-a-shotgun-and-some-napalm sort of woman.

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

We think of it as a sort of traffic accident of the heart. It is an emotion that scares us more than cruelty, more than violence, more than hatred. We allow ourselves to be foiled by the vagueness of the word. After all, love requires the utmost vulnerability. We equip someone with freshly sharpened knives; strip naked; then invite him to stand close. What could be scarier?

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma.

Can you believe it? They made me an ensign." "I didn't realize that things were going so bad." "Scary, isn't it?

There was something real breakable about Mary Ella and I was always afraid if I touched her in the wrong spot, she'd crack.

Sleep was not a friend these days. It was just the waiting period between nightmares.

But somethings are just too important to let fear stand in the way.

Facing her fear turned out to be the only hard part.

possible. He has this attitude that nothing bad can happen to him, that he is protected in some way. I never have that feeling. Instead, I am certain my death is waiting for me around the next bend in the road.