Quotes About Fear

Die Todten reiten schnell. (For the dead travel fast.) —"LENORE," GOTTFRIED BÜRGER

There was a great pirate ship that swung back and forth like a pendulum, sailing high out over the sides of the pier and the ocean beyond, while shrill screams carried into the night. I thought of that ride as the SS Fuck No.

For me, a life long bookworm, there was nothing quite so awful as the though of dying fifty pages from the end of a good novel.

His own eyes prickle wetly. His blond hair darkens with sweat; pearls of water stand out on his smooth six-year-old forehead. The longer he stares back, the wider the gaze seems to get, like a grin. Her eyes radiate hard spines of heat, which drill into him. Timmy Babson feels punctured, "seen." "Jane!" Timmy screams for his mother, calling for her by her first name for the first time. "Jane, Jane! It's looking

The truth is always more scary than kissing someone for the first time.

What he felt was something larger than fear, a narcotic terror that numbed him completely, made it impossible to imagine moving.

Max almost needed it to be true, for vampires to be real, because the other possibility- that their father was, and always had been, in the grip of a psychotic fantasy- was too awful, too overwhelming.

Was anything in the world more heartrending than being found out by someone you wanted to love you?

Gilbert, as a rule, used money the way women use pepper spray; he liked having some handy but only produced it when physically threatened.

All things that live, die. This is why you must find joy in the living, while the time is yours, and not fear the end. To deny this is to deny life. To fear this... is to fear life. But to embrace this... Can you embrace this? You are stronger than you think.

All things that live in this world die. This is why you must find joy in the living, while the time is yours, and not fear the end. To deny this is to deny life ~ Titan

All things that live, die. This is why you must find joy in the living, while the time is yours, and not fear the end. To deny this is to deny life. To fear this... is to fear life. But to embrace this... Can you embrace this? You are stronger than you think. ~ Titan

All things that live, die. This is why you must find joy in the living, while the time is yours, and not fear the end. To deny this is to deny life. To fear this... is to fear life.

There's nothing to be afraid of. We're just saying goodbye.

Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.

Kernberg has found narcissistic patients to be filled with "intense hatred and fear of the image of a dangerous, aggressive mother," a fear which, he says, "represents a projection of his own aggression, linked to the rage caused by his frustration by mother.

It is the strain of walking around the world-down the street, riding city buses and elevators, moving from place to place to place-and not knowing who might want to destroy you, who might like to fill your heart with poison, who might rob you and stab you, who might stand above you in the dark with a tarantula.

Maybe it was better to just go on believing everything was OK, even when really bad things were just about to happen.

I figured Alan wasn't really Alan anymore, that maybe the meds or the disease had made him someone else, someone more timid, someone I actually felt close to. I kept hoping that this would be it, that this would be as bad as it would ever get.

The last four days where everything has finally made some sense. And why is she so ready to throw this away? Because. Because eventually every relationship she's been in has turned to shit. Eventually she ends up screwing everything up. So maybe it's better to leave now before people's feelings get hurt.

America Where a man can say what he thinks, if he isn't afraid of his wife, his boss, his customer, his neighbors, or the government.

Money is a strange thing. It ranks with love as our greatest source of joy, and with death as our greatest source of anxiety.

Gavin de Becker was talking about in his insightful book, The Gift of Fear.

My memory is a scary place: you need a flashlight and a gun so as not to get mugged in there.