Fear Quotes
205 quotes
"I'm not afraid of death; I just don't want to be there when it happens."
"Do one thing every day that scares you."
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings 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. Only I will remain."
"Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it."
"There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man."
"Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity."
"There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."
"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free."
"Nothing, Everything, Anything, Something: If you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something."
"Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire."
"I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back...."
"The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all."
"No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."
"I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us."
"I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good."
"Without fear there cannot be courage."
"How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it."
"Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence."
"When you do what you fear most, then you can do anything."
"Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace."
"We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss."
"Because fear kills everything,"Mo had once told her. "Your mind, your heart, your imagination."
"Laughter is poison to fear."
"Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter."
"It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear."
"I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker."
"I wish my stove came with a Save As button like Word has. That way I could experiment with my cooking and not fear ruining my dinner."
"I love running. I’m not into marathons, but I am into avoiding problems at an accelerated rate."
"People tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear, and ignorance. And while they seem quite eager to feed you their negativity, please remember that sometimes the diet we need to be on is a spiritual and emotional one. Be cautious with what you feed your mind and soul. Fuel yourself with positivity and let that fuel propel you into positive action."
"Love is like jumping out of an airplane with no parachute. But there’s no need to be frightened, because that plane is still on the ground."
"Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone."
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat."
"Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it."
"Only priests and fools are fearless and I've never been on the best of terms with God."
"There is no beauty in sadness. No honor in suffering. No growth in fear. No relief in hate. It’s just a waste of perfectly good happiness."
"There will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you, belittle your accomplishments and judge your soul. It is a fact that we all must face. However, if you realize that God is a best friend that stands beside you when others cast stones you will never be afraid, never feel worthless and never feel alone."
"The baby batScreamed out in fright,'Turn on the dark,I'm afraid of the light."
"He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived."
"He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul."
"I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear."
"Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen to her, because after she's faced the worst she can't ever really fear anything again. ...Scarlett, always save something to fear— even as you save something to love..."
"We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God."
"What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?"
"Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me."
"I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been."
"Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all."
"In this whole screwed-up town, you're the only thing that's always been right to me,"he whispered. "I love you, Claire."She saw something that might have been just a flash of panic go across his expression, but then he steadied again. "I can't believe I'm saying this, but I do. I love you."
""What does it mean if i'm afraid? Does it mean something bad is going to happen?""No, it doesn't mean something bad is going to happen. It just means that you have the chance to be brave."
"since the thing perhaps isto eat flowers and not to be afraid"
"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."
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