Quotes About Fear

This menagerie - it was part of my being repented - to show up places where I might have been afraid, like the zoo or a marriage.

My idea of everything going smoothly on an airplane is (a) that I not die in a slow-motion fiery crash or get stabbed to death by terrorists and (b) that none of the other passengers try to talk to me. All conversation should end at the moment the wheels leave the ground.

Dread was my governess growing up.

We're a crowd animal, a highly gregarious, communicative species, but the culture and the age and all the fear that fills our days have put almost everyone into little boxes, each of us all alone.

It is okay to fear death. Many people who don't can be a little too pleased with themselves.

Man is wise to fear: it sharpens the sense of self-preservation.

I want you to promise we'll see each other again, you'll send a letter. Promise we'll be lost together in our forest, pale birches of our legs. I hear your voice now—I know, everyone knows promises come from fear. People don't live past each other, you're always here with me. Sometimes I pretend you're in the other room until it rains… and then this is the letter I always write...

I can't save a boy from a burning building. Instead he must save me from the attempt; he must jump to earth.

I believe that what a woman resents is not so much giving herself in pieces as giving herself purposelessly. What we fear is not so much that our energy may be leaking away through small outlets as that it may be going down the drain.

We tend not to choose the unknown which might be a shock or a disappointment or simply a little difficult to cope with. And yet it is the unknown with all its disappointments and surprises that is the most enriching. In so many ways this

I felt no fear for their ultimate safety other than a bruise or scrape, rather a mild enjoyment, an excitement

In my heart I do have a fear...I long to grow more godly with each passing day. Call it the fear of the Lord, being in awe of Him and scared to death of any sin that would mar my life.

You deliberately don't ask the questions to which you would rather not know the answers. You call it trust. You know too late that it is cowardice.

Fear does different things to people. Some run away. Some go forward to meet it before it's there.

Death was pain and sickness, and terror of the long, blind, last step.

His face was pale and there was a sheen of sweat on it, and his hands were rigid in his lap. If she had touched him she would have felt locked muscles.

Their accents must have been hard for her to follow, and their faces, matted under the grime, were haunted by a permanent wariness, a mixture of anger and fear.

All the fear in the world is not going to change anything, only rob me of what little I have.

Fear begets violence and hatred," he answered. "It's the easy answer. Blame someone else. Blame the Gypsies, the Jews, the Communists, anyone but ourselves. Get rid of them, and it will all be fine. It's

There is a fear of immorality and disease in our midst. We don't like to be reminded of such things so close to home. We feel guilty that it happens while we are perfectly well and comfortable ourselves. Africa is too far away to be our fault.

There was a fear in the unknown which was too vast to find the strength to face. Everything precious and familiar was being engulfed in a spiritual void.

She had a certain pity for people who wavered, she entirely understood fear. . . .

We can become so cruel and so selfish when we are afraid.

Fear was the most universal stripper of disguise and the self-protection of contrived attitudes