Quotes About Fear

She'd pushed it down, crushed it beneath the weight of stubborn determination, but still it haunted her at night, when such terrors shamble from their dens to torment innocent insomniacs.

There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love, there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.

There is nothing like becoming a mom to fill you with fear.

We master our fears by embracing them, not by subduing them.

We have a choice when we face difficult decisions: We can act with faith or we can act with fear. There are no guarantees except this one: If we dwell on our fears, we will definitely miss the joys of the unexpected.

So great becomes the fear of losing what we have that many of us rush back to hide under the temporary shelter of convention rather than follow the path of self-discovery wherever it might lead. Given adequate time and sufficient fear, we may hide so long that we hardly notice we're slowly suffocating.

Montaigne: "There were many terrible things in my life, but most of them never happened.

Worry is a form of atheism. And so is most fear.

human beings cannot distinguish between real dangers and imagined ones.

It is a great paradox and a great injustice that writers write because we fear death and want to leave something indestructible in our wake and, at the same time, are drawn to all the things that kill: whiskey and cigarettes, unprotected sex, and deep-fried burritos.

All those people who rejected me gave me a head-start on freedom, because the fear and obedience we are all taught, well, those things weren't getting me any love.

There were shadows I saw out of the corner of my eye that looked like problems waiting to become real, but you never know with shadows.

As one who participated in all the wars of the state of Israel, I saw the horror of wars. I saw the fear of wars. I saw my best friends being killed in battles. I was seriously injured twice.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

Likevel har jeg alltid insistert på å ha hatt en løkkelig barndom – jeg tør faen ikke annet. Hvis jeg først sku åpna døra inn til hemmelighetenes kott, er jeg redd det ville velta ut mange øgler og slimete padder – og det har jeg pokker ikke mot til.

The fear of failure can paralyze you. The reluctance to make decisions or take steps can often be traced back to the fear of failing in some way. To succeed, however, you have to accept the risk of failure, as well as the risk of success. Sometimes that, too, can be a scary prospect.

I can't even dial one phone number right away. But you strained your own body to go and see them. I was surprised. The frightened little me had always wondered how to swim through the vast ocean, but you didn't even want a ship. You wanted wings. I thought you were amazing.

Poverty, the most fearful monster that ever drew breath.

To die in order to avoid the pains of poverty, love, or anything that is disagreeable, is not the part of a brave man, but of a coward.

The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing

Wicked men obey out of fear; good men, out of love.

To die will be an awfully big adventure.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.