Quotes About Fear

I wish I were braver, although I try.

I think I learned I'm braver than I think I am.

While I've never 'phoned in' a performance, I think I have given some performances where I could have been a bit braver.

One in 10 women will get breast cancer at some stage in their life and that's quite a scary thought.

You breathe fast when you're scared.

Sometimes, my anxiety is really dark. Like, I can't breathe, and feel like I'm having a heart attack.

I will still probably die of aspiration-caused pneumonia. I can go along breathing well, then I might aspirate on something, develop pneumonia and be gone in a week.

I was apprehensive about bringing off this Homer.

I've been broke my whole life, you get what I'm saying? I'm scared of the bank.

I still have a fear about going broke. I always think about it.

I think one thing I've learned is, I can't give my heart again until someone gives it back. Until I see that someone else is willing to take a risk... because love is a risk. You risk the chance of getting hurt and getting your heart broke.

Black lives are too easy to take in America because we don't want to question why people are so afraid of black and brown people to begin with. And that's what I want 'Strong Island' to do.

No one was safe in the Viking age. You could die from any cause at any time. It's a brutal time and a brutal environment.

I don't do bugs.

I'm scared of high buildings.

I know what it's like to feel the fear of battle. To be constantly looking over my shoulder and thinking every sound might be a bomb or a bullet. When I served in Afghanistan in 2009 I felt that fear, but I made a choice to serve in the army and I knew I could come home to safety at the end of my tour.

I thought I was bulletproof, and I'm not.

I am more afraid of alcohol than of all the bullets of the enemy.

When I started wearing makeup, my parents..... were like, 'You're absolutely not wearing it out of the house.' At first, I thought they were not happy with me wearing it, but later on, I realized it was out of fear of me getting bullied and ridiculed in school.

I remember as a kid being scared of the things that go bump in the night, but I was way more scared of adults.

The thing is, if I ever found a guy I could fall in love with, I'd want to marry him and have his children. And that scares me to death because I think I'm a whole bunch of crazy, and I always worry that a guy will walk away once he really, truly knows me.

I wish I never got buried alive.

I don't want to be a bust.

The writer's goal is to try to make it frightening without describing it too much, and yet not making it so grey that you don't know what's going on... Your imagination can imagine all sorts of really horrible things, and if you're able to prolong that feeling, then you've succeeded.