Quotes about fear
fear waiting promise
Wait. This was the first lesson I had learned about love. The day drags along, you make thousands of plans, you imagine every possible conversation, you promise to change your behavior in certain ways -- and you feel more and more anxious until your loved one arrives. But by then, you don't know what to say. The hours of waiting have been transformed into tension, the tension has become fear, and the fear makes you embarrassed about showing affection. Paulo Coelho
fear light understanding
I’m afraid of love, because it involves things that are beyond our understanding; it sheds such a brilliant light, but the shadow it casts frightens me.
fear children tired
I was tired of playing the child and acting the way many of my friends did - the ones who are afraid that love is impossible without even knowing what love is. If I stayed like that, I would miss out on everything good that these few days with him might offer.
fear victory battle
I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
fear real fighting
Fear is the most easily taught of all lessons, and the fight against terror, real or imagined, is perhaps the history of man's mind.
fear soul each-day
The prey of fear, he, always curtailed, extinguished, thwarted by the dusk, work partly done, says to the alternating blaze, "Again the sun! anew each day; and new and new and new, that comes into and steadies my soul." Marianne Moore
fear sunrise may
You may not be down to your final heartbeat, but you may be down to your last paycheck, solution, or thimble of faith. Each sunrise seems to bring fresh reasons for fear. Max Lucado
fear smell hair
Despair kinda smells like burnt hair. Sounds great, but smells lousy. Now fear... fear you can taste! Let's see, fear kinda tastes like... like peaches, peaches covered with fresh bone marrow Matt Wagner
fearless wish hunger
I wish that my life could be like the movies, like 'Bonnie and Clyde' or 'The Hunger' or 'Harold and Maude.' And it can be! It maybe just takes somebody else who is as fearless as you. It takes a person who will not hesitate. Marilyn Manson
fear destiny demon
Everyone fears and courts his own demon. Mason Cooley
fear work law
Boredom and fear keep us working and obeying the laws.
fear asking-why guilt
If "there is no harm in asking," why guilt and fear when we do so?
fear appetite
Fear regulates. Appetite impels.
fear shots adversaries
Too timid to talk back, I shot my adversary.
fear self self-control
Always clamping down on excitement is not self-control but fear.
fear fear-and-faith
Fear is faith that it won't work. Mary Kay Ash
fear favors remember
It takes me a while to figure things out, doesn't it?" Edilio grinned. "Do me a favor. When you find Astrid, repeat that to her, word for word, the part about how it takes you a while. Then remember her exact reaction and tell me. Michael Grant
fear might possibility
Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might.
fear might possibility
No, no, no, so not getting the point of fear. Because fear wasn't about what made sense. Fear was about possibilities. Not things that happened. Things that might.
fear eye past
To almost no one's surprise, Astrid said, "Dune, by Frank Herbert. 'I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that bring total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the Fear has gone there will be nothing.'" She and Lana together spoke the last phrase of the incantation. "'Only I will remain.
fear missing shots
There was never any fear for me, no fear of failure. If I miss a shot, so what? Michael Jordan
fear understanding meaningful-life
Now is the time to understand more, so we fear less. Marie Curie
fear dodge arguing
Fear not those who argue but those who dodge. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
fear sleep learning
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. Theodore Roethke
fear father stones
Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones.
fear president worst
The worst of all fears is the fear of living Theodore Roosevelt
fear giving wonder
I am filled with awe that filmmakers have the capacity to stir us and give us back a sense of wonder. Theodore Bikel
fear self abandonment
The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself. Theodor Adorno
fear men bullets
Success has killed more men than bullets. Texas Guinan
fear fog punishment
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. Margaret Mead
fear spoons knees
My knees could have been stirred with a spoon. Margaret Halsey
fear fear-of-death ifs
That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it. Marcus Allen
fear fearlessness
The only thing to fear is fearlessness. Michael Stipe