Quotes About Fear

Modern anxiety is expressed in the longing for what most people fear, even as modern grief is expressed in the unconsummated mourning for what they never really had.

Lucky people should hide. Pray the days of wrath do not visit their home.

Was my sin basically one of untruthfulness? Or, more likely, one of cowardice? But the liar knows the truth. The coward knows his fear and runs away.

And then when you wake up, there's a moment of sheer terror in your body. Every bit of softness leaves your muscles, and you greet the day like it was the apocalypse.

I have what's called an addiction to Ativan, and Xanax. Which is preferable to admitting to an aversion to planes.

HOW TO FOIL A UFO ABDUCTION 1. Do not panic. The extraterrestrial biological entity (EBE) may sense your fear and act rashly. 2. Control your thoughts. Do not think of anything violent or upsetting—the EBE may have the ability to read your mind. Try to avoid mental images of abduction (boarding the saucer, anal probes); such images may encourage them to take you. 3. Resist verbally. Firmly tell the EBE to leave you alone.

A creeping fear of madness often accompanies depression. Sufferers wonder if their black moods will ever lift, or if their feelings of alienation from the healthy world will deepen and widen. "These fears are at least fifty percent of what it is to be melancholy

They come. Sooner than I'd thought, more than I'd even begun to fear. They come looking for death. And Death is psyched to see 'em.

last words) Don't worry, Captain Hammer will save us.

Everything is a drug. Family, art, causes, new shoes... We're all just tweaking our chem to avoid the void.

I write to give myself a strength. I write to be the characters that I am not. I write to explore all the things I'm afraid of.

I release you, fear, because you hold these scenes in front of me and I was born with eyes that can never close.

But come here, fear I am alive and you are so afraid of dying

Do not feed the monsters. Some are wandering thought forms, looking for a place to set up house. Some are sent to you deliberately. They come from arrows of gossip, jealousy or envy--and inadvertently from thoughtlessness. They feed on your attention, and feast on your fear.

You have paid the cover charge thousands of times over with your lives and now you are afraid you can never get out.

What a wild dilemma, how to make it to the stars on a highway slick with fear

Don't feed the monsters...Some are sent to you deliberately. They come from arrows of gossip, jealousy, and envy- and inadvertently from thoughtlessness. They feed on your attention, and feast on your fear.

A fear of the unknown: what was that called? Worse yet: a fear of the known.

We begin as children imagining and fearing ghosts. By degrees, through our long lives, we come to be the very ghosts inhabiting the lost landscapes of our childhood.

No one would be able to name what had happened or would wish to name it. Rape was a word that came not be spoken at High Point Farm.

It is a terrible thing to feel that you might break down, you might utter a confession that could not then be retrieved.

O.K. he's crazy. But he's a saint too. He scares me, I don't like him. He scares me. What the hell-he knows. Yeah? Why? What does he know? --Things most people'd have to die and go to Hell for, to know.

SO RISKY, to love another person! Like flaying your own, outermost skin. Exposed to the crude air and every kind of infection.

is joy in life, a terrible joy. There is joy for the taking if you are not afraid.