Quotes About Fear

Thith ith too nautheating for wordth!" Libby said, grabbing Jake and running back into the house.

And now she was going. She was going to walk up the steps leading to the silver bird that would gobble her up, holding her in its belly until it reached its faraway destination, where it would spit her out. In one piece, she hoped.

You're my only child. You're my life. So when it comes to doing stupid things, don't. Because I couldn't stand it if I lost you.

There might be no tomorrow and even if there is, nobody gives a damn.

time. Every night I'd wake up to her howls. Turtle, who slept at the

Boredom is just "What's the use?" in disguise. And "What's the use?" is fear, and fear means you are secretly in despair. So put your fears on the page. Put anything on the page. Put three pages of it on the page.

Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears – fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure".

Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage. ANAÏS NIN

It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult. SENECA

reaching toward God has made me more me and not less me. I was always afraid you would erase me. Instead, you are helping me to sketch me in.

The real evil is usually the element that makes one nervous while they are confronting or exposing it.

That impulse took hold of me so powerfully, from my whole body, not by thought, that I caught myself from doing it exactly and as scarcely as you snatch yourself from jumping from a sheer height: here, with the realization that it would have frightened them still worse (to say nothing of me) and would have been still less explicable; so that I stood and looked into their eyes and loved them, and wished to God I was dead.

I am only afraid of dying; not of being dead.

You can never become a great man or woman until you have overcome anxiety, worry, and fear.

Nothing can be wrong except my own personal attitude, and my attitude will be right IF I trust and am not afraid.

You're never confident. You go in fear and trembling every day. It would be awfully nice to think that you know how to write a novel. But what you know is the novel you just wrote. You don't have the slightest notion how to write the one you're going to do next.

Good fortune, contentment, peace, happiness have never been able to deceive me for long. I expected the worst, and I was right. So much for the dream of man.

Torn by dreams,By the terrible incantations of defeatsAnd by the fear that defeats and dreamsare one.The whole race is a poet that writes downThe eccentric propositions of its fate.

But what are our stories if not the mirrors we hold up to our fears?

He's splitting me open, I thought. He'll break me and then I'll die.

All the dead bolts, pulled shades and hidden knives in the world couldn't protect you from the truth.

Two ideas are psychologically deep-rooted in man: self-protection and self-preservation. For self-protection man has created God, on whom he depends for his own protection, safety and security, just as a child depends on its parent. For self-preservation man has conceived the idea of an immortal Soul or Atman, which will live eternally. In his ignorance, weakness, fear, and desire, man needs these two things to console himself. Hence he clings to them deeply and fanatically.

We must admit that very often we are afraid or ashamed to look at our own minds. So we prefer to avoid it. One should be bold and sincere and look at one's own mind as one looks at one's face in a mirror.

As Adam early in the morning,Walking forth from the bower refresh'd with sleep,Behold me where I pass, hear my voice, approach,Touch me, touch the palm of your hand to my body as I pass,Be not afraid of my body.