Quotes About Fear

Being too consumed in fear all the time will result in poor quality of life

Laura smiled a little wanly in the twilight. Far more afraid of flesh and blood than ghosts, she murmured.

Nothing is more strange than truth — nothing, at times, more terrible!

Gradually, I began to resent Christian school and doubt everything I was told. It became clear that the suffering they were praying to be released from was a suffering they had imposed on themselves—and now us. The beast they lived in fear of was really themselves: It was man, not some mythological demon, that was going to destroy man in the end. And this beast had been created out of their fear.

A lot of people don't want to make their own decisions. They're too scared. It's much easier to be told what to do.

Like LaVey, I had a also discovered what happens when you say something powerful that makes people think. They become afraid of you, and they neutralize your message by giving you a label that is not open to interpretation-- as a fascist, a devil worshipper or an advocate of rape and violence.

I was very apprehensive, mostly because I didn't want to get caught. By now, I had begun to feel removed from the everyday world of morality. Guilt had become more a fear of getting caught than any sense of right or wrong.

Without the threat of death there's no reason to live.

I've always been paranoid about the police, because even when I'm not doing anything illegal I'm thinking about doing something illegal.

La bestia de la cual vivían atemorizados era en realidad ellos mismos: Era el hombre, no algún demonio mitológico, quien a final iba a destruir al hombre. Y esta bestia había sido creada de su miedo.

We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

Our dream of life will end as dreams do end, abruptly and completely, when the sun rises, when the light comes. And we will think, all that fear and all that grief were about nothing. But that cannon be true. I can't believe we will forget our sorrows altogether. That would mean forgetting that we had lived, humanly speaking. Sorrow seems to me to be a great part of the substance of human life.

There was no way to abandon guilt, no decent way to disown it. All the tangles and knots of bitterness and desperation and fear had to be pitied. No, better, grace had to fall over them.

To value one another is our greatest safety, and to indulge in fear and contempt is our gravest error.

She was afraid to be angry and that made her angry.

Fear and comfort could be the same thing. It was strange, when she thought of it. The wind always somewhere, trifling with the leaves, troubling the firelight. And that smell of damp earth and bruised grass, a lonely, yearning sort of smell that meant, Why don't you come back, you will come back, you know you will.

To be useful was the best thing the old men ever hoped for themselves, and to be aimless was their worst fear.

When people come to speak to me, whatever they say, I am struck by a kind of incandescence in them, the 'I' whose predicate can be 'love' or 'fear' or 'want,' and whose object can be 'someone' or 'nothing' and it won't really matter, because the loveliness is just in that presence, shaped around 'I' like a flame on a wick, emanating itself in grief and guilt and joy and whatever else.

Fearfulness obscures the distinction between real threat on one hand and on the other the terrors that beset those who see threat everywhere. . . . Granting the perils of the world, it is potentially a very costly indulgence to fear indiscriminately, and to try to stimulate fear in others, just for the excitement of it, or because to do so channels anxiety or loneliness or prejudice or resentment into an emotion that can seem to those who indulge it like shrewdness or courage or patriotism.

Fear and comfort could be the same thing. It was strange, when she thought of it. The wind always somewhere, trifling with the leaves, troubling the firelight. And that smell of damp earth and bruised grass, a lonely, yearning sort of smell that meant, Why don't you come back, you will come back, you know you will. And then the stars, and Mellie probably awake, lying there thinking about them.

Our dream of life will end as dreams do end, abruptly and completely, when the sun rises, when the light comes. And we will think, All that fear and all that grief were about nothing. But

It was an experience I might have missed. Now I only fear I will not have time enough to fully enjoy the thought of it.

often enough, when we think we are protecting ourselves, we are struggling against our rescuer.

People don't talk much now about the Spanish influenza.... People came to church wearing masks, if they came at all. They'd sit as far from each other as they could. There was talk that Germans has caused it with some sort of secret weapon, and I think people wanted to believe that, because it saved them from reflecting on what other meaning it might have.