Quotes About Fear

Venture nothing, and life is less than it should be.

I am afraid of falling into hopeless despair, over my wasted life, and I am still not sure how it happened.

Power-Over leads to punishment and violence. Power-With leads to compassion and understanding, and to learning motivated by reverence for life rather than fear, guilt, shame, or anger.

We want to take action out of the desire to contribute to life rather than out of fear, guilt, shame, or obligation.

The measure of your life will be the measure of your courage.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

You're scared of what you can't control

As it turned out, my greatest fear in life had become expectations.

Living in a place like this, she must have learned how to see all the monsters that can hide a person.

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

Every single important thing we do is something we didn't use to be good at, and in fact, might be something we used to fear.

With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life.

I've always felt alienated. I realized that I've been terrified my entire life. So I can identify that fear which drives so many of the people that I write about.

I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.

All my life I had feared to-morrow, until I decided to have faith and to live to-day in courage.

The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it.

Because I'm selfish. I'm a coward. I'm the kind of girl who, when she might actually be of use, would run to stay alive and leave those who couldn't follow to suffer and die.

it always sound scarier when a hollerer talk soft.

Things change when you're not in danger anymore.

I'm dealing with a lot of scary things. I think you have to react to them. And you either laugh at them or you go insane.

Feel completely unable to do anything. Try to picture your life in five years. It really seems like you will be dead.

The dead do not harm us, only the alive.

I believe that worrying about a bad thing prepares you for it when it comes. If you worry, the bad thing doesn't hit you as hard. You can roll with the punch if you see it coming.

I'd always thought I would feel like an animal released from its cage when my student days were finished, I felt more like a bird that had been pushed from its nest and told it must fly.