Quotes About Fear

No doubt I do act in 'bad faith' when I deliberately avoid facing an honest decision and follow the conventional pattern of behavior in order to be spared the anxiety that comes when one is... thrown into seventy thousand fathoms.

Look out!" Julia cried. "he has a snake! And he'll use it!

I took the fear of marriage from my parents' relationship, because I didn't want to end up in a relationship like that, whereas my brothers and sisters learnt a lesson from it and made sure they didn't carry it on into their own marriages.

We have all done this before; we're bored and terrified.

Ego sum Attila, flagellum Dei" (Ben de Attila, Tanr?'n?n k?rbac?/I am Attila, the scourge of God)

The biggest risk, is to take no risks

We'll never feel safe again, and so it's bye-bye innocence. It's been nice knowing you, but you're gone now.

The dreams now were simply of staying alive.

I guess you can't live at full-on intensity forever. Lying on the bed of my cell in the dark, trembling, waiting for the soldiers to come in and shoot me - you just can't keep doing that. There's something in the human spirit that won't let you live that way.

We must give our children fear. It is a rich and immensely valuable experience to know fear. Fear in context, fear that exists in complex relationships with other forces, fear that has limits and can be contained within safe places: this is the only way people at the beginning of their life journeys can develop an arsenal powerful enough to ensure that those journeys are healthy, satisfying and successful.

Being brave is a choice you make. You've got to say to yourself: I'm going to think brave. I refuse to think fear or panic.

I used to think heroes were brave and strong but the last look on Robyn's fave was not brave or strong, it was scared and unsure.

Death comes walking across the countryside swinging that scythe, and he might get you or he might not.

the biggest risk is to take no risk. or to take crazy risks.

We believed we were safe. That was the big fantasy.

Sometimes I think I'd rather be frightened than bored. At least when you're frightened you know you're alive.

When you're scared you can either give in to the panic and let your mind fall apart, or you can take charge of your mind and think brave.

Nothing reaches inside you and grabs you by the guts the way fear does.

The wolves are running.

He played the king as if afraid someone else would play the ace.

Ancient fears of merging with, surrendering to, or being invaded by unfamiliar concepts, alien cultures, or different religions result in a kind of fundamentalism that causes spiritual evolution to become petrified.

My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you ' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.'

You cannot avoid war in life, you cannot avoid the fear of terrorism, you cannot avoid those things now, they are a part of everyday demeanor.

Fear is a friend who's misunderstood