Quotes About Fear

Look at the toxic waste that most people put into the fertile garden of their minds every single day: the worries and anxieties, the fretting about the past, the brooding over the future and those self-created fears that wreak havoc within your inner world. Worry drains the mind of much of its power and, sooner or later, it injures the soul.

Corre grandes riesgos, pero protégete con sentido común. Equilibra vivir como si no hubiese mañana con comportarte como si fueses a vivir para siempre

We grow fearless by walking into our fears.

Si sentís que vuestras vidas son un desastre en este momento es solo porque vuestros miedos son un poco más fuertes que vuestra esperanza

I've been so afraid to dance in front of people, so now I make it a point to confront my fears and chase my demons.

The fear we don't face become our limits

Do it until you are no longer scared.

Don't go looking in dark places, because dark things live there.

Popularity gives you power only over people who care about being popular. Ostracism gives you power only over those who fear being ostracized.

That if I pretended hard enough nothing was waiting to claim me, nothing ever would.

Sascha looked torn. Should she cram my head full of newfound terror that the world would reject me, or let me wander into the big, scary out-there, like a naive lamb prancing to the slaughter?

Dex's mother knew she should be afraid for her daughter. This, she'd been told, was the tragedy of being a girl. To live in fear–it was the fate of any parent, maybe, but the special provenance of a mother to a daughter, one woman raising another, knowing too well what could happen. This was what lurked inside the luckiest delivery rooms, the ones whose balloons screamed It's a girl!: pink cigars and flowered onesies and fear.

People do crazy things when they're keeping girls locked up in their shed.

I wish the little rivers under the laughing kingfishers in every canyon were fire, and the ocean Fire, and my heart not afraid to go down.

To Cassidy, the panopticon wasn't a metaphor. It was the greatest failing on everything she was, a prison she had built for herself out of an inability to appear anything less than perfect. And so she ghosted on, in relentless pursuit of escape, not from society, but from herself. She would always be confined by what everyone expected of her because she was too afraid and too unwilling to correct our imperfect imaginings.

It was like the part of me that had enjoyed those friends had evaporated, leaving behind a huge, echoing emptiness, and I was scrabbling on the edge of it, trying not to fall into the hole within myself because I was terrified to find out how far down it went.

There is nothing in the dark that isn't there when the lights are on.

You see. No shock. No engulfment. No tearing assunder. What you feared would come like an explosion is like a whisper. What you thought was the end is the beginning.

Terror. That was it.

Gloria screamed, but nothing came out. She could feel the scream in her throat, but it was clinging there, too scared to climb out of her mouth. Raymond might have screamed, too--he wasn't sure. His face was an exploding red ball--that was what it felt like. His heart was in the middle of his head. He couldn't see a thing.

Dead man has nothin' to lose, nothin' to be feared of. Now I'm back among the living and scared to death about what happens next. —Samuel Reed

Will it hurt? I ask. Getting your parts replaced? Freak doesn't answer for a while and then he says in his stern, smart voice, Sure it will hurt. But so what? Pain is just a state of mind. You can think your way out of anything, even pain. I'm pretty worried about the whole deal, and I go, But why do you want to be the first? Can't someone else be first? Isn't it dangerous? Life is dangerous, Freak says.

Until I saw what happened to Mongo, I thought that getting canceled was the worst thing that could happen. Wrong. Being dead and not knowing it is much, much worse.

And then we stupidly fear one kind of death, while we have already passed and are passing so many others.