Fear Quotes

The man was bearing down on me. My hands were limp and wet. Please, I thought. Please. Who was I addressing? The man? God? Whoever handled these things.

~ Emma Cline

Fear is acceptable, as long as I don't allow it to cripple me...

~ K.m. Shea

Each time we face our fear, we gain strength, courage, and confidence in the doing.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Mediocrity is a path cleared by fear, leveled by apathy and paved by comfort.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

You scare me, Gage.  Her eyes pleaded with him to understand.  You tore me up, ripped me apart.  It took me a long time to put the pieces back together again.His thumb grazed along her cheek in a soft caress.  I know baby, but I promise you, you have nothing to fear this time.How do you know that?  How can you promise something like that?Because I would die protecting you.  I would slay dragons for you.  He fisted her hair and brought his face close.  I would get on my knees and beg for you.

~ Sarah Curtis

Talking to people who are different from us can be radically transformative. It's the antidote to fear.

~ Kio Stark

An act made in fear is not the same thing as an action taken for necessity.

~ Janny Wurts

One of the most terrifying things I fear is not my potential, but how much regret I’ll die with should I never use it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

The paralyzing fear of being lost is fed solely by the irrational fear that we will never be found.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Fear isn't what scares, it's reality that does scare

~ Sofia Reyes

The nature of conspiracy, which among those who both feared and named it, seemed to always possess at its core a misguided belief in the competence of others, as weighed against the incapacities, real or imagined, of the believer. Therefore, he concluded, the belief in conspiracy was an announcement of the believer's own sense of utter helplessness in the face of forces both mysterious and fatally efficient.

~ Steven Erikson

God’s eyes readily see beyond our actions, for our actions are simply fear and selfishness pretending to be us.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Most of our fears are borrowed. Since that’s the case, we should get busy returning them.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Fear echoes your self-defined limitations, not your actual ones. To change your self-image, you must face what scares you.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

The power of a thing is not based on the power it actually possesses. Rather, it is much more about the power that we permit it to possess.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To intentionally pass on opportunity is to intentionally pass on living.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I love the storm and fear the calm.

~ Christina Queen Of Sweden

Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.

~ Peter T. Mcintyre

One thing that is guaranteed not to work. Doing Nothing. A goldmine when you realise it. Don't be paralysed by analysis. Don't be paralysed by fear. The one thing that is guaranteed not to work. Doing nothing achieves nothing.

~ Tony Curl

If I am brave enough to stand against those who have been groomed by fear, I will recognize that where I get knocked down is all about where life begins, and has nothing to do with where it ends.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Would it be better to feel afraid all the time or to feel nothing at all? She hadn't decided yet.

~ Anna Snoekstra

The truth is that you are afraid.''Afraid? I do not know all the words in the Parisian jargon, and I know not what you mean.

~ Alexandre Dumas

Cut all cordsSail at your own paceSail with no fear in your mind and heartBe the captain of your life.

~ M.k Dindoyal

Loss is an invitation to a journey of unparalleled growth, yet we seldom RSVP the invitation.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

We tend to deny our humanity because in accepting the fullness of it, we would need to confess how little we’ve done with it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

There is no reprieve when you have a broken mind; cease-fires are rare. Even on good days, you know everything could change on a dime. Fear is your constant shadow

~ Barbara Claypole White

Imagine, if you will:Meradinis!The stuff myths are made of! The Turtle Island of the stars – home planet to the fearsome and once legendary Corsairs. The very name of this world immediately grabbed the imaginations of young boys and girls, and universally mesmerize dreamers and romantics alike. The truth though was less romantic – and as reality so often demonstrates in real life - instead rather ugly and brutal. The Corsairs were not corn-ball comics that went about with parrots on their shoulders, saying “Arr!” to everything they encountered. They were anything but. Behind the Corsairs and their culture lay a history fraught with a struggle to survive, a vengefulness and a cruelty – and a drive to survive by preying upon others that struck fear into the hearts of neighboring fringe worlds.

~ Christina Engela

If I’ve learned anything from my past and my present, it’s the power of fear. You can give your subjects all the generosity in the world, and still they will demand more. But those who are afraid don’t fight back. I know this well enough.

~ Marie Lu

Like fear and fury. It is energy from another realm, threads from beneath the sur­face, an immortal place never meant to be disturbed. Raffaele trembles.Something is poisoning the world.

~ Marie Lu

If I could remove one thing from the world and replace it with something else, I would erase politics and put art in its place. That way, art teachers would rule the world. And since art is the most supreme form of love, beautiful colors and imagery would weave bridges for peace wherever there are walls. Artists, who are naturally heart-driven, would decorate the world with their love, and in that love — poverty, hunger, lines of division, and wars would vanish from the earth forever. Children of the earth would then be free to play, imagine, create, build and grow without bloodshed, terror and fear.

~ Suzy Kassem

19. Those who are the happiest are not necessarily those for whom life has been easiest. Emotional stability results from an attitude. It is refusing to yield to depression and fear, even when black clouds float overhead. It is improving that which can be improved and accepting that which is inevitable.

~ James C. Dobson

I am, to be sure, afraid that if you knew me that you wouldn’t love me. But this must be faced…I fear it in any relationship. Thus I am perhaps afraid to reveal facts about things…or to say too much for fear if I make too much noise you’ll drift away, pull down the shade of your ivory tower…and after that. Afraid, I guess, that I’ll loose you…I keep losing people.

~ Anne Sexton

Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

It was more than a spider. It was every unknown terror in the world fused into wriggling, poison-jawed horror. It was every anxiety, insecurity, and fear in his life given a hideous, night-black form.

~ Richard Matheson

The tragedy of power like mine is that there is no way down. There can only be extinction. Dust to dust rags to rags fear to fear.

~ V.s. Naipaul

Call it anything else if you will—fear, anxiety, nervousness, sweating—but “shyness” is the historic word for it.

~ Richard N. Bolles

Fear, that’s the great motivator though. Fear keeps it all in check. Fear of one’s neighbor. Fear of those who don’t look like you. Fear of those who live in some barren desert halfway across the globe,” Sean continued. “Domestic terrorism, just as much as fear of those abroad has helped people accept more intrusion into their everyday lives. To accept less freedom as freedom itself.

~ Jordon Greene

He didn’t remember the very first time he actually died very well. It wasn’t as bad as remediation, but he remembered being afraid and worried… and when he found himself alive again a few hours later with Mearth’s wild green eyes peering down at him, he remembered still being afraid and worried. It was strange, he thought, to be afraid of being alive… but being alive was worse than being dead in his mind.

~ Rebecca Mcnutt

Like heartbreak, these unpredictable crises are not something you should live in fear of. Perpetual fear won't protect you. Fear is not a citronella candle; scary life happenings are not mosquitoes. They happen in ways we can't predict, control or understand. The only guaranteed outcome of feeling scared all the time is that you will feel scared all the time.

~ Kelly Williams Brown

Instead, though, as he drew nearer, his mind kept drifting back to Gansey's voice in the cave the day before. The tremulous note in it. The fear - a fear so profound that Gansey could not bring himself to climb out of the pit, though there was nothing physically preventing him. He had not known that Richard Gansey III had it in him to be a coward.Adam remembered crouching on the kitchen floor of his parents' double-wide, telling himself to take Gansey's oft-repeated advice to leave. Just put what you need in the car, Adam.But he had stayed. Hung in the pit of his father's anger. A coward, too.Adam felt like he needed to reconfigure every conversation he'd ever had with Gansey in light of this new knowledge.

~ Maggie Stiefvater