Quotes About Fear

Its skin was ash-gray, darkened by patches of sickly red. Its semihuman features were strangely elongated, as if its head had been stretched top to bottom. Strands of greasy hair were strung across its mottled pate. Its nose was like a pit. Its cheeks were deeply sunken. Its mouth gaped open, the sharp teeth gleaming within. It would have almost seemed the face of a dead and rotting thing except that the eyes were sparkling with an eager, living cruelty.

remember that the danger that is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

If there are frightful monsters in fairy tales, they do not frighten you now, because that kind of monster is no longer going about the world, whatever he may have done long, long ago. He has been turned into stone, and you may see his remains in museums.

While neurological studies have tried to identify components responsible for fear and greed, the impact on finance is less clear.

Always afraid of making mistakes, always afraid of making wrong decisions, always trying to be perfect; fact is no one is perfect, and the best lessons derive from the mistakes and the wrong decisions we make. Don't be afraid of mistakes, and never regret the decisions you make; use them as a life lesson, and build on them.

His routine had drawn him so deep inside himself that he feared the flood of memories her words on the postcard might unleash. He was afraid of wanting her again and all that it would mean. Finally, he read her postcard. He read it three times. He remembered how it had been.

Self-preservation, nature's first great law, all the creatures, except man, doth awe.

In terms of fear, I still am most afraid of Freddie Kruger.

Everything drains from my body. There's no thrill of being right. It's just an overwhelming sense of dread.

I'm about to jump off the cliff of anxiety mountain.

We did those things when we were acting of fear from the cold war. After 9/11 we learned a new kind of fear. A whole generation of brilliant minds started imagining all of the scary things that bad people could do to using genetic engineering, computer viruses, nanotechnology and a thousand other technologies.' 'Once you start thinking

threat, as well as a trillion-dollar biotechnology industry that keeps coming up with new ways to scare us.

I usually define fear as the thing I feel when the unexpected happens. Anxiety is when I'm doing something that I already know is stupid.

usually define fear as the thing I feel when the unexpected happens. Anxiety is when I'm doing something that I already know is stupid.

give her a quick peck, then tell her, "You'll be fine." "Never say that. That's what the doctors tell you when you're going to die.

When I was cowering in the ambulance, waiting for Joe Vik to come for me and Jillian, it was Detective Glenn who was outside trying to give us cover. Sure, I found my courage. So did Jillian . . . god, did she ever. But Glenn had it all along. He died. We lived. Would Glenn turn away and leave this man on his doorstep? This grieving man. Fuck me.

How the fuck did you get away?" "Fear, man. Fear. It's your best friend." He pauses for a moment. "But you know that. Don't you?

Watch yourself. Don't think just because you survived one monster you'll survive the next. I'm alive because I kept running from them. Not to them.

But another part of me wonders if you do know how smart you are, but you've never tried to tackle a bigger problem because you're afraid you'll fail and then . . . well, and then in your eyes, you'll be a failure to your father.

The only thing intelligent people hate almost as much as making mistakes is being wrong.

This is what scares me—the idea of becoming a monster without ever realizing it.

My curiosity was more powerful than my fear.

These creatures are opportunistic cowards, afraid to take on something larger than them.

First ambitions are best. We are less brave later.