Quotes About Fear

They were being driven to a prison, through no fault of their own, in all probability for life. In comparison, how much easier it would be to walk to the gallows than to this tomb of living horrors!

Never in my life have I feared death as much as I feared that resurrection.

Those of us who refuse to risk and grow get swallowed up by life.

We've never managed, either one of us, to get all the way into life. We're hanging on to the outside for all we're worth, convinced we're going to fall off at the next bump.

Do you realize that you can't play the game of life with sweaty palms?

The quality of life decreases with heightened security.

I've been profoundly germophobic since I was a young child. I don't want to kiss anyone but my girlfriend for my whole life.

When I realised I was transgender I was so afraid of what my transition would do to everyone else in my life and how they would react to it and would I be rejected?

I'd be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I'd been given. I'd be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

A Catholic is raised with the idea that he will die any minute now and if he doesn't live his life in a certain way, this death is an introduction to an eternity of pain.

It is highly improbable that the bureaucrat will put his life on the line. It is absolutely impossible that he'll put his job on the line.

Without fear and disease, my life would be like a boat without oars.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

How many wives have been forced by the death of well-intentioned but too protective husbands to face reality late in life, bewildered and frightened because they were strangers to it!

Superstition is the poetry of life.

At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.

Whatever it is you're scared of doing, Do it.

One must plan for the future and anticipate the future without fearing the future.

Death is frightening, and so is Eternal Life.

No matter how long you train someone to be brave, you never know if they are or not until something real happens.

Marla's philosophy of life, she told me, is that she can die at any moment. The tragedy of her life is that she doesn't.

The delights of this life are not its own, but our fear of the ascent into a higher life; the torments of this life are not its own, but our self-torment because of that fear.

While your life is the true expression of your faith, whom can you fear?