Fear Quotes

Above all, avoid lying, especially lying to yourself. Keep watching out for your lies, watch for them every hour, every minute. Also avoid disgust, both for others and yourself: whatever strikes you as disgusting within yourself is cleansed by the mere fact that you notice it.Avoid fear, too, although fear is really only a consequence of lies. Never be afraid of your petty selfishness when you try to achieve love and don’t be too alarmed if you act badly on occasion.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

It is easy to see how quickly expectations become layered, competitive and conflicting. This is how the shame web works. We have very few realistic options that allow us to meet any of these expectations. Most of the options that we do have feel like a double bind. When Marilyn Frye describes a double bind as a situation in which options are very limited and all of them expose us to penalty, censure or deprivation.

~ Brené Brown

The day Cami nearly succeeded at her suicide attempt was the worst day of Kaci’s life. Cami was the only sister that she had, and she couldn’t imagine spending the rest of her life without her.

~ Valenciya Lyons

Growth requires courage, strength and the willingness to go beyond fear.

~ Catherine Louise Birmingham

And that's why I don't get to cry, I guess. Because they do. Because we're older but we're not the grown-ups who seem too far away to understand. I tuck that thought inside me, warm and small like balled hands inside hoodie pockets. Beneath the beech trees and sugar maples, feet crunching against dead leaves, I hope for strength. Because as much as I want to be the one crying, I want to be the kind of person someone can hold onto.

~ Emery Lord

When difficulties come, we must see them as what they are---opportunities and a new path to discover your potential. How will you ever know the magnitude of courage you are capable of if you have never experienced the hopelessness of fear?

~ Farah Oomerbhoy

Fear is the will's little baby. It arises with the possibility you will lose what you desire.

~ Shai Tubali

When we pay attention to sensations in our bodies, we can feel that love is the energetic opposite of fear.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Love seems to open and expand us right down to the cellular level, while fear causes us to contract and withdraw into ourselves.

~ Sharon Salzberg

My truth asked people to understand and to learn about depths of pain they had previously walked past…. I had kept my silence for a reason. - from Without a Voice by Chris Pepple

~ Chris Pepple

The body cannot be afraid of death. The movement that is created by society or culture is what does not want to come to an end. . . . What you are afraid of is not death. In fact, you don't want to be free from fear. . . . It is the fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead. What we do not want is the fear to come to an end. That is why we have invented all these new minds, new science, new talk, therapies, choiceless awareness and various other gimmicks. Fear is the very thing that you do not want to be free from. What you call “yourself” is fear. The “you” is born out of fear; it lives in fear, functions in fear and dies in fear.

~ U.g. Krishnamurti

Sadly, it seems that I have the proclivity to create plenty of devils, but most of the time I don’t even go looking for angels.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

There is a sentiment common among most of us when it comes to love—letting go can feel scary.

~ Sharon Salzberg

It takes courage to stand up for yourself. I stand in honor, and no longer in fear of speaking out.

~ Catherine Jane Fisher

That scream left her mouth and entered my head, where it's been ever since, sometimes waking me up at night.

~ K. Martin Beckner

Fear is my mind painstakingly creating the worse-case scenario and then putting it on steroids.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Running’ is driven by panic. ‘Destination’ is driven by thought. And while it’s terribly painful to admit, incessantly pretending that I do the latter doesn’t replace the fact that I’m constantly doing the former.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To ‘pretend’ is to say that I’m willing to waste the precious energy that it takes to pretend, and I’m unwilling to cultivate the bravery that it takes to be real. And I am at a complete loss to pretend that either of these aren’t true.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I imagined, too. And so imagination became my nemesis; my mind created monsters out of nothing.

~ Samantha Shannon

Losing something happens in a day. An end takes one day. We all seem to focus on that one day, on that ending, rather than on the beautiful story that was created before the end came. We are obsessed with endings, so much so, that we would rather not live at all, than live and then lose. So, we have two choices: to not create our stories because we know that one day they have endings, or, to build our stories and therefore to live, filling the many years with memories and moments! An end takes one day to happen, but life takes place in the moments and in the memories that we choose to feel, to build, to hold. Don't miss out on the years, for the fear of one day.

~ C. Joybell C.

Geraldine keeps her eyes trained on him as she slowly reaches into her purse, wrapping her fingers around her gun. “…Callo, I’m so sorry that your life ended up this way,” she sighs as she gets out of her side of the car, her feet burning from the cold as her high heels sink into the fallen snow. “Aren’t you scared?”“I’m you, Geraldine… I fell into the same trap as you, anyway,” Callo answers. His large eyes are shining with tears, but he doesn’t seem afraid in the least. “…The dead don’t feel anything, you know… not even guilt or regret. So, what is there to be afraid of?

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

Key the mind, and set the soul free.

~ Anthony Liccione

Easter tells us of something children can't understand, because it addresses things they don't yet have to know: the weariness of life, the pain, the profound loneliness and hovering fear of meaninglessness.

~ Frederica Mathewes-Green

An imagination left alone in the dark can be a terrible thing.

~ Catherine Lowell

From children to men we cage ourselves in patterns to avoid facing new problems and possible failure after a while men become bored because there are no new problems. Such is life under the fear of failure.

~ Luke Rhinehart

Fear of failure is expressed in negative goal-setting, indecisiveness, and fear of adverse consequences

~ Sunday Adelaja

Complex steels our energy with the help of misgivings, strains, and fear of consequences for wrong decisions

~ Sunday Adelaja

We will understand that fear is not a special feature of human being, if we saw ourselves from the creator’s point of view

~ Sunday Adelaja

Attianus had been right in his conjectures: the virgin gold of respect would be too soft without some alloy of fear.

~ Marguerite Yourcenar

The feelings of guilt takes away self-confidence, reduces self-esteem welcomes fear, confusion, disappointment, depression etc.

~ Sunday Adelaja

I’ve learned that to be courageous is to feel fear within, every step of the way. Courage does not take over, it fights and struggles through every word you say and every step you take. It’s a battle or a dance as to whether to let it pervade. It takes courage to overcome, but it takes extreme fear to be courageous.

~ Cecelia Ahern

Ignorance is the mother of fear.

~ Harry Homes

It’s like a haunted house we can’t leave,’ Neil said.A haunted house we’re afraid to leave, Tony thought.

~ Christopher Pike

When you trust your own abilities and those of the people around you, you overcome fear. And when the people you lead trust themselves and you - that you have their best interests at heart and are authentic - is when you and they will achieve the most.

~ Phil Dourado

Fear is a numbing thing when there is no recourse to hope or escape...

~ William Horwood

Whether I scare some people or not, I don't give a hoot. If you're not scared by now, nothing can scare you.

~ Tomas Schuman

You are sorrow. You exist, even if joy is present. You’re not like them. You’re not like any other emotion. Hate and fear come and go, but you exist even when the breeze is clear of sadness. You are permanent and needed.

~ H.s. Crow

What he feared the most was that all this hiding had made it impossible for him to ever be found again.

~ John Corey Whaley

When in despair… when in fear… when in doubt… make something.

~ Brian K. Friesen

As long as we’re comparing analogies,” Jack added, “how about this one? A person being chased by a bear doesn’t have to be able to run faster than the bear. He only has to be faster than his slowest companion. Driver picks. I’m going to catch up with the convoy, find a way to pass several of the cars, and not be last in line.

~ Donald G. Firesmith