Fear Quotes

The alternative to pain may be worse. When you live with an open heart, you will inevitably get hurt. The alternative of living a life closed off from experience, however, is barren. Ironically, it also still involves suffering. In fearing pain, we already feel the pain from our fear.

~ Ann Brasco

At the end of the day, we all crawl, exhausted, to some doorstep. Some crawl to the doorstep of their new home, the one they have sought for miles without giving up their goal, exhausted by their determination. And others crawl to the doorstep of their prison, the one they have sought to escape, but gave up, exhausted by their determination. And we all enter our new home with a sigh of relief and put our feet up. Some rejoice. Others grow bitter. And yet, we are tired just the same.

~ Vironika Tugaleva

They thought he was scared all the time because he was a coward. The truth was, only he could see the world clearly enough to know how truly scary it was.

~ Simon R. Green

I can bow to fear and flee the pursuit of great things. I can bow to God and engage in the pursuit of making things great.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

That is what love does, it upstages fear.

~ Mia Hollow

He that feareth is a slave, were he never so rich, were he never so powerful. But he that is without fear is king of all the world. Though hast my sword. Strike. Death shall be a sweet rest to me. Thraldom, not death, should terrify me.

~ E.r. Eddison

I felt afraid. No one would know that, not Mother and not Mike. I’d keep the fear pushed down inside of me, and no one would know it was there. “I’m awfully happy,” I wrote. I was. Awfully happy and awfully in love, and tomorrow I was marrying Mike.

~ Benedict Freedman

Your love is as stable as you are: It's not about how good a person makes you feel, but rather what good you can do for them.

~ Criss Jami

Courage is God's way of testing the virtues you profess to have and your level of commitment to everything you think you are.

~ Shannon L. Alder

The irony is, nothing is more frightening than being frightened.

~ Neel Burton

All the things that people do in order to show that they don't need anybody... meanwhile, all they really want to do is say, Please keep me. We all want to be kept. The problem is we are too afraid to let anyone know about it. What are these fragile things in our hearts that have so much fear of being broken?

~ C. Joybell C.

I sweat terror, Robyn! I'm scared every single second about every single goddamned thing. I worry obsessively about being buried under an avalanche of fear. Jesus, Robyn, I'm scared like only the truly crazy ca

~ Teresa Toten

If anyone doesn't agree with you, the truth is on your side.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Imagine how free we would feel and what we could accomplish if we could live without fear.

~ Susan Taylor

Everybody’s scared, but if you don’t let your fears stop you, that’s bravery.

~ Leslie Feinberg

Dreams and freedom are the same. In order for them to be, they come with a price.

~ Criss Jami

Get scared later, and if you're scared now remember what Kit always said. If you're not scared, she told me, it's not bravery. And you want to be brave, don't you, Snicket?

~ Lemony Snicket

His importance to the century just past, and therefore his status as a figure in history as well as in literature, derives from the extraordinary salience of the subjects he ‘took on,’ and stayed with, and never abandoned. As a consequence, we commonly use the term ‘Orwellian’ in one of two ways. To describe a state of affairs as ‘Orwellian’ is to imply crushing tyranny and fear and conformism. To describe a piece of writing as ‘Orwellian’ is to recognize that human resistance to these terrors is unquenchable. Not bad for one short lifetime.

~ Christopher Hitchens

If I'm afraid to fall then how will I ever fly?

~ Sydney Paige Mccutcheon

I have extremely little courage myself, much less than you; but I have found that whenever, after a long struggle, I have screwed my courage up to do something I always felt much freer & happy after it.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

You have enough courage to face even your greatest fear.

~ Chris Prentiss

Of his first enemy encounter, Gen. Grant said that after his initial fear, My heart resumed its place. Grant said he suddenly realized his potential enemy he had been as much afraid of me as I had been of him.

~ C. Brian Kelly

There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to ‘mean’ horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

When your cause is noble, you shall never know fear.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

Anyone who tries to put fear in a heart, has lost their heart to fear.

~ Justin K. Mcfarlane Beau

We fear our highest possibilities. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments, under conditions of great courage. We enjoy and even thrill to godlike possibilities we see in ourselves in such peak moments. And yet we simultaneously shiver with weakness, awe, and fear before these very same possibilities.

~ Abraham H. Maslow

Let your passion and courage swell in you until you can no longer be contained by fear.

~ Bryant Mcgill

She was enfolded in the great wings of Mrs. Whatsit and she felt comfort and strength pouring through her. Mrs. Whatsit was not speaking aloud, and yet through the wings Meg understood words.My child, do not despair. Do you think we would have brought you here if there was no hope? We are asking you to do a difficult thing, but we are confident that you can do it. Your father needs help, he needs courage, and for his children he may be able to do what he cannot do for himself.

~ Madeleine L'engle

feeling shy is simply replacing courage with the feeling and fear of how others will perceive or what they will say about us after and act. Courage dares regardless

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

I need to use my mind in a way that slows the out-of-control beating in my chest. The darkness around us could be anywhere, anytime. I could be alive or dead. Okay, I choose alive. While I’m at it, I choose the darkness to be a gentle blanket on a moonless night, where I rest a few feet from a boy who’s warm and sweet. When he holds me, his heart beats strong with what I tell myself is passion, not fear.

~ Jeanne Ryan

Maybe we don’t ever feel that sweetly untainted and wholly majestic kind of love that takes every longing captive because we are hopelessly entangled in the illogical fear that despite all of love’s grand goodness, it might not be good enough to keep us safe.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I know very little about darkness, Mr Bowden, except that we cannot stop its coming.

~ Anna Freeman

Impossibilitarians are defeated before the battle even begins. The best attitude that accommodates failure is disbelief. You can't do it because you believe you can't! You can do it because you believe you can!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

How marvellously lie our anxieties, in filmy layers, one over the other! Take away that which has lain on the upper surface for so long—the care of cares—the only one, as it seemed to you, between your soul and the radiance of Heaven—and straight you find a new stratum there. As physical science tells us no fluid is without its skin, so does it seem with this fine medium of the soul, and these successive films of care that form upon its surface on mere contact with the upper air and light.

~ J. Sheridan Le Fanu

Think about it, if we fed our passion the way we fed our fears, we would be achieving our dreams and making the most of our years.

~ Nikki Rowe

Forbid statements like “will God ever meet me?”, “am I worthy of his blessings?”, “I am not sure God will bless me”, “what shows that I am blessed?”. These statements clearly tell that you are not aware of who you are in the first place.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

The heart pointed to the brain and said with great disdain, “Those who live their lives in here live the lives most full of fear.

~ Ryan Lilly

Mind can be your best friend or worst enemy.

~ Kabira

Most days, I’ve got this impermanence thing down just great. It doesn’t bother me; what’s to bother? Most days, I sit comfortably with the knowledge that I’ll die alone, and I feel nothing so strongly as my embrace of my nothingness. Most days don’t really matter, because there is only this day, and right now I feel like fear is all I am. I don’t want you to leave. Just let me pretend you won’t.'He wrapped his arms around me and we slept. For that night, we would last forever.

~ Agnostic Zetetic

Fear, anxiety, arousal, and pain; all are emotions and sensations. They are neither right, nor are they wrong; good nor bad. They are simply passions, a most important part of life. Feel them, fully experience them, surrender to them, and learn to accept them. As a submissive, you must let go. André Chevalier

~ Nikki Sex