Quotes About Fear

For whoever doesn't overcome the cowardice inside themselves will die of fear to the end of their days.

The villagers almost beat me to death, but fortunately they didn't know how to go about it . . . They punctured me with stakes, chopped my head off, poured holy water all over me and buried me. Can you imagine how I felt when I woke up?

Fear plays a no less important role in the human psyche than all the other emotions. A psyche without fears would be crippled.

With the Inquisition? But what will they accuse us of?' 'The problem isn't what they accuse us of.' Scharley's voice was extremely gloomy. 'The problem is what we confess to.

People"—Geralt turned his head—"like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves.

When you know about something it stops being a nightmare. When you know how to fight something, it stops being so threatening.

Ciemno?? i czas - lekkie, niewidzialne substancje, które obna?aj? ludzk? krucho??. Umys? jest tylko p?omykiem zapa?ki na wietrze. Dusza ze strachu przed mrokiem wtula si? w cia?o, a ono swoje istnienie stwierdza dotykaj?c w?asnej skóry.

Wzi??em od niego gada. By? sztywny. G?sior skrzywi? si? z obrzydzeniem, gdy podetkn??em mu ten totem pod nos. - To nie dla mnie. Jestem zanadto katolicki. - Wszyscy katolicy to tchórze, G?sior - powiedzia? Ma?y. - Boj? si?, ?e jaki? iguandon móg? jednak wyjeba? ich prababk?. A mo?e, nie daj Bo?e, w??? Zgroza. St?d ten pomys? na osobowego Boga. Od razu razniej, nie? Pycha was zgubi.

Strachliwego masz ch?opa, Mary?ka. - Edek nala? kieliszek i poda? m?zczy?nie. - Pij! Na odwag?! - Jaki on mój. Tak przychodz?... - powiedzia?a kobieta i obci?gne?a bluzk? na baniastych piersiach. - A do mnie by? przysz?a? - Edek wetkn?? kciuki za pasek i odchyli? si? z krzes?em do ty?u. - Ja boj?ca nie jestem. - ?ysne?a srebrnym z?bem i wypu?ci?a pogardliwy k??b dymu.

Of course it does, Jomes answered earnestly. Many of life's treasures remain hidden from us simply because we never search for them. Often we do not ask the proper questions that might lead us to the answer to all our challenges. We are so caught up in fear and regret, that hope seems a foolish endeavor. Proof of hope, however, is not only possible, it is an overlooked law of the universe.

Most people spend so much time fearing the things that are never going to happen or can't be controlled that they have no energy to deal with the few things they can actually handle.

As children, we were afraid of the dark. Now as adults, we are afraid of the light. We are afraid to step out. We are afraid to become more.

Misusing our imagination grants power to fear. Know that fear and its many demon relatives do not--and cannot--exist without a human host.

Do not be afraid for yourself, Darrel. You can make the same journey one day—you can join her if you choose to do so. And don't be afraid for her. She is fine. Remember . . . she is getting ready to breathe.

All men are driven by faith or fear—one or the other—for both are the same. Faith or fear is the expectation of an event that hasn't come to pass or the belief in something that cannot be seen or touched. A man of fear lives always on the edge of insanity. A man of faith lives in perpetual reward.

Darkness commands an inordinate amount of attention from a person who is unprepared and unprotected. Attention to darkness produces doubt. When a person is distracted and weakened by struggles, doubt whispers a message logically urging surrender; and soon, that person's focus is on his own discomfort, his fear and anger, regret and resentment.

So to make sure we don't get off on that foot, courage is resistance to fear or mastery of it, but it is not the absence of fear.

Fear no longer has a place in my life. For too long, fear has outweighed my desire to make things better for my family. Never again! I have exposed fear as a vapor, an impostor that never had any power over me in the first place! I do not fear opinion, gossip, or the idle chatter of monkeys, for all are the same to me. I do not fear failure, for in my life, failure is a myth. Failure exists only for the person who quits. I do not quit.

El miedo es un pobre cincel con el que labrar el futuro'".

Well, that's why smart people get tripped up with worry and fear. Worry...fear...is just a misuse of the creative imagination that has been placed in each of us. Because we are smart and creative, we imagine all the things that could happen, that might happen, that will happen if this or that happens. See what I mean?

Fear always accompanies the making of art, generated by the shock of seeing an idea taking its form. A sculpture in the mind is safe and secure--the actual work rarely behaves as intended.

Anybody who says he's not scared is either a liar or mentally deficient.

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

There is a fear of emotion in tennis.