Quotes About Fear

So scared of getting older, I'm only good at being young.

I want you so bad I'll go back on the things I believe. There I just said it, I'm scared you'll forget about me.

So scared of getting older I'm only good at being young So I play the numbers game To find a way to say that life has just begun

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity to act despite our fears.

We are taught to understand, correctly, that courage is not the absence of fear, but the capacity for action despite our fears.

when you're young, you feel invulnerable. I don't feel invulnerable anymore.

Once you've put in the work, though, the game becomes extremely mental. I had enough inner strength to know I could beat anyone at all, anytime, on any surface. But behind my defenses were some very dark places. There was always a devil inside me whom I had to fight. And the devil was fear of failure.

His abhorrence and fear of alcohol did not extend to his power as host. He kept a huge cupboard of drinks in the station house and loved to serve large measures to visiting relatives--especially those he disliked--about which there was a definite element of spreading bait for garden snails.

Having a first child is like swallowing an intoxicating drink made of equal parts joy and terror, chased with a bucketful of transitions nobody ever tells you about.

Love is scary! Taking a vow to love someone through sickness and health, for richer for poorer, forsaking all others, until death do us part, is the most terrifying experience a person can have. Why pretend any differently?

Fear gripped her like hands around the neck, the way it could only happen in an unfamiliar room in the pitch black of night.

Euthanasia is a topic that taps into deeply personal views of dignity and fear but, mostly, spirituality.

She hangs up just as a text from Sofia comes in. Are you on the phone with Isaac? A chill rolls up Caroline's spine. The loneliest place in the world, she realizes, is between two other people.

They were taught in school that fear often derives from ignorance. Once you understand a situation, it becomes far less intimidating.

love of one's child is the most powerful love there is, and he's always been terrified of it.

Telling the truth when you've done something wrong is the most terrifying thing in the world.

that's why women don't turn in their abusers, she thinks. It's humiliating—and the possibility of victim-shaming is very real.

In masks outrageous and austere The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

It is a mistake to think of courage as something you show to others. True courage is only something you show to yourself.

Our demons, they have a way of becoming self-fulfilling.

Terror is your enemy.

Young girls would paint themselves like parakeets. Bothersome children are like parakeets. If you dream a parakeet is lying in an oven you may be certain that soon you will die. The shells of hatched parakeets turn into maggots, which turn into lizards, which creep down the throats of sleeping people

Muted pain, it turns out, is much worse than clear pain. Clear pain is quantifiable. One can face it, reckon with it, come away braver. There is no way to understand what you cannot feel. No reckoning to be had. It will haunt you forever, make you afraid. Still, they call her this laughable word: Survivor.

Why so profane, ask the bookclubbers? Because we are talking here about death, and fuck you if you don't like it: You're going to die, too. This is serious. Fuck fuck fuck.