Quotes About Fear

She shot him a look she thought he might still remember, the same one a rattler gives right before it strikes.

That woman is here to destroy you," she whispered.

Great, you know how I love zombies. Except you can't kill zombies.

You will die in this house.

She dropped her voice to a hoarse whisper that turned his blood to slush. "You will wake up and find me standing over your bed. You will see the flash of a blade before I plunger it into your heart. My face will be the last thing ever see.

Everything was going to be all right, she told herself. Every woman got wedding jitters, right? Every woman felt a little nauseated at the thought of her first love on her wedding day. Every woman saw herself lying face down, dead in a pond.

You know that if I ever do settle down with some woman, Lillie is going to come after you next," Hawk said. "She's relentless. She'll have you married within weeks after I tie the knot. Mark my words." He took another drink and swallowed. "Be afraid. Be very afraid.

He sighed deeply, pain in his eyes. "What is it you're running from? Is it me?

Stupid girl. Now she was going to have to die.

It was on a night like this in 1967 that he'd first seen them. The memory was too fresh. He cursed himself for letting his thoughts take that particular path. "Don't be a damned fool," he said out loud, needing to hear something, even his own voice. "They aren't out there." And yet every fiber of his being knew better. They were here again. It was his only thought as he turned and tried to run, knowing it was a fool thing to do in the dark …

Ya got to watch them bears, Lillie Girl," her father said, looking worried, " 'specially the renegade ones. They'll turn you every way but loose.

Lillie woke to darkness an instant before a large warm hand clamped down over her mouth…

There was a spider…

If we're going to die, I want you in my arms.

She was in so fast that she didn't have a chance to scream. The icy cold water stole her breath away…

He seemed to study her. "I think I might surprise you." She feared that was definitely what might happen.

This woman would be the death of him.... He told himself he wouldn't be stupid enough to let her steal his heart.

Hope and fear are vectors that push against each other, and the sum of those two vectors is your overall motivation level.

If you can remove the vector of fear, then hope will predominate, and your overall motivation level will be higher, which may move you above the Action Line—and you do the behavior.

Before this, I had slept terribly most nights when I was worrying about the conference. I hated going to bed—it felt like gearing up for a battle.

The chameleon nature of asmita is apparent when we set ourselves a challenge. The source of the challenge lies in the positive side of asmita, but the moment fear arises negatively, it inhibits our initiative. We must then issue a counter-challenge to disarm that fear

Many yoga teachers ask you to do the asanas with ease and comfort and without any stress or true exertion. this ultimately leaves the practitioner living within the limits of his or her mind, with the inevitable fear, attachment, and pettiness.

My God, she thought. You scare them when you do that. You're scaring them. We scare all our children to death before they know what fear is, and they think we're playing games with them. We grab at them and yell, I gotcha. And they repay us with shrieks of laughter, and we never consider that it is hysteria. She realized she was praying an insane litany. Please don't let anyone say, I gotcha. Please, God, don't let anyone say, Peekaboo.

It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.