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Quotes About Fear

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.
~ Steven Pressfield
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
~ Susan Sontag
Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.
~ Christy Turlington
Fear isn't only a guide to keep us safe; it's also a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life … the great stories go to those who don't give in to fear.
~ Donald Miller
If you want to do something big in your life, you must remember that shyness is only the mind.
~ Arfa Karim
When love is absent, then there is fear, and in my opinion you should lead your entire life through love.
~ Lauren London
How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.
~ Paulo Coelho, Brida
one should be afraid of life, not of death.
~ Marlene Dietrich
Change happens when the pain of holding on becomes greater than the fear of letting go.
~ Spencer Johnson
The certainty of death and the uncertainty of the hour of death is a source of grief throughout our life.
~ Edgar Morin
To live the life you've always wanted, you must confront the issues you've always avoided.
~ Orrin Woodward
Maybe the fear is that we are less than we think we are, when the actuality of it is that we are much much more.
~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
What am I most ashamed of in my life? Not keeping my promise to my sister and being too scared of America to attend her funeral.
~ Josephine Baker
My biggest fear in life is to be average.
~ M. Night Shyamalan
We cannot banish dangers, but we can banish fears. We must not demean life by standing in awe of death.
~ David Sarnoff
The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes.
~ Ram Dass
Life and death are the same thing. When we realize this fact, we have no fear of death anymore, nor actual difficulty in our life.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
If an opportunity scares you, that's God's way of saying you should jump at it.
~ Anna Quindlen
Don't be careful. You could hurt yourself.
~ Byron Katie
He who fears death has already lost the life he covets.
~ Cato the Elder
God wants to cast out the fear and doubt in your life. Go before Him right now and say, "Lord, this is what I am afraid of ..."
~ Charles Stanley
All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least trying to accomplish all of your wildest dreams in life.
~ Kevin Smith
It's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time.
~ Guillaume Musso