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Quotes About Fear

Holy shit," I breathed. "Hellhounds." "Harry," Michael said sternly. "You know I hate it when you swear." "You're right. Sorry. Holy shit," I breathed, "heckhounds.
~ Jim Butcher
Torches," Porak ordered. "This is dumb," Jig grumbled as one of the others handed out torches. "Why not run ahead and warn any intruders that we're coming? Maybe we should sing, too, in case they're blind.
~ Jim C. Hines
Plans were for adventurers. He preferred the goblin approach. Blind panic might not work all the time, but at least it saved you the stress of planning.
~ Jim C. Hines
The true enemy of good isn't evil, but fear. Evil will battle good, but fear will corrupt it. — a Merraban saying, quoted by Admiral Pachelbel
~ Jim C. Hines
The life of an adventurer appeared to consist of roughly six parts boredom to one part stark terror, or so it seemed to Jig.
~ Jim C. Hines
I've said for years — ever since I figured out how to write Goblin Hero — that it's important to give yourself permission to write crap. Perfection is the destroyer of art. It's paralyzing. Art, whether it's writing or painting or anything else, requires risk. And risk means you're going to make mistakes. Sometimes you're going to fail.
~ Jim C. Hines
Blind panic might not work all the time, but at least it saved you the stress of planning.
~ Jim C. Hines
Practically speaking, it was like carrying a Labrador retriever over a tightrope and having a squirrel race past.
~ Jim C. Hines
It's amazing how quickly you start following the rules when someone sticks a cranial explosive to the base of your skull.
~ Jim C. Hines
Something weird wants to kill us? Cool! Where did it come from, and how does it work?
~ Jim C. Hines
The true enemy of good isn't evil, but fear. Evil will battle good, but fear will corrupt it.
~ Jim C. Hines
Fear of rejection is a sign of neediness—specifically, the need to be liked.
~ Jim Camp
Embrace "no" at every opportunity in a negotiation. Don't fear the word, invite it. You do not take it as a personal rejection because you are not needy. You understand that every "no" is reversible.
~ Jim Camp
Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.
~ Jim Carrey
You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world, and as you walk through those doors today, you will only have two choices: love or fear. Choose love, and don't ever let fear turn you against your playful heart.
~ Jim Carrey
You are ready and able to do beautiful things in this world and after you walk through those doors...you'll only really ever have two choices: love or fear. Choose love. And don't ever let fear turn you against your playful heart.
~ Jim Carrey
Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much. You can spend your whole life imagining ghosts, worrying about your pathway to the future, but all there will ever be is what's happening here, and the decisions we make in this moment, which are based in either love or fear.
~ Jim Carrey
Why, Katie wondered, eyeing them at the altar, is false love so proud, and true love so fearful?
~ Jim Carrey
So many of us choose our path out of fear disguised as practicality.
~ Jim Carrey
Ever hear the expression "never gamble with scared money"?' I nodded. 'They say that because every time you do, you lose. It's that way with us. We win because we're not afraid of the stakes or the consequences. What can they do, put us away for awhile? You know the right people and doing time is like a paid vacation.
~ Jim Cirni
The word 'Terror' is so generally and universally used in connection with everyday trivial matters that it is apt to fail to convey, when intended to do so, its real meaning.
~ Jim Corbett
that there is no more terrible thing than to live and have one's being under the shadow of a man-eater
~ Jim Corbett
A leopard, on the other hand, even after it has killed scores of human beings, never loses its fear of man; and, as it is unwilling to face human beings in daylight, it secures its victims when they are moving about at night or by breaking into their houses at night. Owing
~ Jim Corbett
crushed between the fears of going forward and the dread of going back.
~ Jim Crace