Quotes About Fear

In Berlin evil came to them slowly and then all at once.

When you are a wolf, no place is safe, no one can be trusted. Unless they are what you are. Hunted.

This was the way love walked in, barely dressed, confused, panic-stricken, overcome, not caring what anyone thought or what they believed.

Is it not beautiful?" I said of the world around us. Is it not terrible?

Sometimes words spoken are the ones you've been afraid to think, but once they're said aloud there's no way to make them disappear.

Maybe I'm afraid of love," Franny admitted. "It's too powerful." "You?" Isabelle scoffed. "Who chose courage? You're stronger than you know. Which is why I'm leaving you what matters most. The book.

the logic of fairy tales was that there was no logic: bad things happened to the innocent, children were set out in the woods by their parents, fear walked hand in hand with experience, a wish spoken aloud could make it so.

The garden was burning, the air sparked with specks of flame as they say it will be in the World-to-Come when we walk beside the angels and have no fear of their illuminations or of their might.

You walk into the dark and the darkness abides within you.

How had love come to this? This twisted dark place. The phone calls, the fear, the look on his face when he drove by the house.

Many of them began to wonder why they themselves often feigned opinions rather than speak their minds, no matter how clever they were, for fear they'd be thought of as difficult.

That was how evil spoke. It made its own corrupt sense; it swore that the good were evil, and that evil had come to save mankind. It brought up ancient fears and scattered them on the street like pearls. To fight what was wicked, magic and faith were needed.

They've become sleepwalkers, wandering through their own nightmares, each avoiding the others for fear that a word, a conversation, a kiss will make them realize they aren't dreaming.

Nowadays, she doesn't even look in a mirror. She's afraid no one will be staring back at her.

I fear myself more than I fear any bear,' Emily blurted. It was the way she'd felt in her aloneness, the comfort she took in being on the mountain.

The aunts tried to encourage her not to be so good. Goodness, in their opinion, was not a virtue but merely spinelessness and fear disguised as humility. The aunts believed there were more important things to worry about than dust bunnies under the beds or fallen leaves piling up on the porch.

A glass breaking on its own portended death.

Some of the guys he knew said the only people who didn't fear death were those who had nothing to lose and he thought they were probably right.

Black cats can do that to some people: They make them go all shivery and scared and remind them of dark.

The responsibility of loving someone is too much for anyone to take, which is why she's done her best to avoid it.

TAKE ONE RISK AND you'll soon take more. It's an addiction or it's bravery, it's foolishness or it's desperation.

To hell with human beings. I'd always felt safer with stories than with flesh and blood.

Elizabeth is suddenly reminded that she can walk down that road anytime she wants to. There are better things to be afraid of than a country road bordered with scrub pine and oaks.

For although Hailey thought nothing of leaping from the highest diving platform or swimming so far out to sea that she disappeared from sight, she was easily frightened by other things - a future she couldn't control, for instance, or the notion that a lifelong friendship might be lost at the end of the week when the Capri closed down for good and Claire moved away.