Quotes About Fear

The fear of death was a powerful aphrodisiac.

It's a Sun and Moon truth that if a husband sees his wife give birth, he might die from it.

La dicha es un regalo que disfrutamos con cautela ante la certeza de que la tragedia se esconde a la vuelta de la esquina.

If you are afraid for your life, you don't think about others. You think only about the people you love, and even that may not be enough.

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something is more important than fear.

Sometimes the heart tells us to venture where the mind fears to tread.

I nodded, pretending to be a hundred times more courageous than I felt. But that was the thing about courage. Sometimes you had to fake it to feel it.

I read once that courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something is more important than that fear.

When our actions and choices are based on fear and denial ... Well, nothing good can come of that. Ever.

IF YOU REALLY let life take you, if you release control and stop clinging to sameness, you can't imagine the places you'll end up. But most people don't do that. Most people get this death grip on what they know, and the only thing that loosens their grasp is some kind of tragedy.

Fear holds on. Love lets go.

When did the news become worse than any dystopian fiction we could imagine?

Never talk to strangers. If someone ever tries to take you, fight with everything you have. Scream as loud as you can. (He'd never told her what to do if the man was too strong and there was no one to hear her screaming.)

Sometimes it seemed like that was all it was, motherhood—grief and guilt and fear. You said good-bye a little every day—from the minute they left your body until they left your home.

Ignorance and fear were responsible for so much horror in the world. All the most heinous acts throughout history could be linked to those demons.

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Her throat felt constricted, breath

People act out of love or they act out of fear," she said. "Those are the only two primary motivators.

No one likes to be confronted with the truth about what they will do when motivated by fear. But its only human to act in our own self-interest. The slop is a slippery one, an abyss below. It gets away from you, that morality you cling to when things are going well. Its when the bottom falls out of your life that you really see who you are.

know, some secret self, maybe it's hiding in here. I read in one of those clutter clearing books that if you have sealed boxes in your life, then there are places within yourself you're afraid to confront.

She understood now, how you turned away until you couldn't. Until the pain of knowing and doing nothing was greater than the fear of what might come next.

As far as Eloise was concerned, there were only two ways of being in the world. You either walked through life acting out of love, or you acted out of fear.

Finley felt a fresh wash of tears, a desire to run toward Eloise, to cling and to hold on. But she didn't. She had already learned the most important lesson Eloise had to teach, though it still hurt like hell: Fear holds on. Love lets go. "Yes