Life Quotes

For the briefest moment, Jack's face formed the faintest smile as he considered fear and anxiety, the latter two of which often caused people to forget what truly mattered most.

~ Jermaine Watkins

When you are a child at home alone, you’re afraid someone might come; when you are old and at home alone, you’re afraid no one will come.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Modesty is fear.

~ Ljupka Cvetanova

Reading poetry is like undressing before a bath. You don't undress out of fear that your clothes will become wet. You undress because you want the water to touch you. You want to completely immerse yourself in the feeling of the water and to emerge anew.

~ Kamand Kojouri

Self-preservation is to hunker down in the suffocating confines of this infinitesimally tiny existence that I define as ‘me,’ instead of letting ‘me’ run through the infinitely massive expanse of everything that is not me. And if the beast of self-preservation does not permit such freedoms, I will preserve myself to my own death.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

I might define a ‘journey’ as something that life itself calls me to. And I might then define a ‘trip’ as something I create to avoid a journey by mimicking a journey. And while fear is most certainly part and parcel of both, the latter is emboldened by fear while the former surrenders to it.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

What makes us brave isn't lacking the good sense to be afraid, it's looking back at what we've lived through and seeing if we faced it well.

~ Caitlín R. Kiernan

The box isn't all that different from life. If you go in with fear, fear is what you'll find.

~ Blake Crouch

Don't seek a failure-less life. Wear failure as a badge of honour. Seek a fearless life !

~ Manoj Arora

How often have I painted a splendid picture of a journey marked by courageous ascents and daring desert crossings when all along all I’ve really been doing is running?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Ne wonders what it is like to burn, staring at one’s ending right around the corner, and yet not knowing how the end will come, when one will be fully consumed by the void.

~ Teo Yi Han

Like all people who have known rough times, light-heartedness seemed to her too irrational and inconsequent to be indulged in except as a reckless dram now and then; for she had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly...Her triumph was tempered by circumspection, she had still that field-mouse fear of the coulter of destiny despite fair promise, which is common among the thoughtful who have suffered early from poverty and oppression.

~ Thomas Hardy

Most people have fear to compromise with life.You got to take the reins of your life in your own hands, and direct it yourself.You decide how you use your time.

~ Kristin Ketelslegers

I’m not afraid of death, just of dying.

~ Duane Hewitt

The choice to avoid risk is the choice to avoid living, and to avoid living is one of the greatest risk of all.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

To look beyond our horizons is to acknowledge that we’ve hemmed ourselves in by creating them in the first place.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

How sad it would be to get to the end of life and realize God gave you wings, but you never used them.

~ Khrys Vaughan

Choosing a life of safety is safely choosing something other than life.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

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

~ 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

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

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

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

A life lived in fear is a life half lived.

~ Carrie Hope Fletcher

We forget that the power of God isn’t in a weapon or a leader, but within us.

~ Toni Sorenson

Avoid fear because it will blind you from seeing God’s purpose about your life and limit your potential.

~ Gift Gugu Mona

The only reason I can’t jump in and engage life is that I’ve told myself I can’t. Yet I can’t helping wondering would happen if I told myself I could?

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

If fear can prevent us from potential vital danger, it can also be lethal – kills our dreams, chances, personal development and passion, prevent us from living our life at maximum.

~ Kim Kiyosaki

And it was knowing that I could still be ... still be afraid of everyhting, but not letting fear stop me from living

~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

She had refused to draw the monster. She feared to give him form.

~ Christina Dodd

The thing that hunts me now thrives on terror. My terror. I fear he will come for me. I fear he will come for anyone who knows me.

~ Christina Dodd

I was out on a lonely road that stretched forever into the darkness. I wanted to run, to get away from him, but it was so dark, I was afraid of where I was going.

~ Christina Dodd

I fear living a life where I could have accomplished something and didn't. That's what I fear. I don't fear death.

~ Neil Degrasse Tyson

Don’t be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. Death is always at our side.When we show fear. it jumps at us faster than light, but if we do not show fear, it casts its eye upon us gently and then guides us into infinity…

~ Gackt

As hard as we strive, man remains a perfect imperfect being.

~ Auliq Ice

Work begins when the fear of doing nothing at all finally trumps the terror of doing it badly.

~ Alain De Botton

Life here on Earth is promised suffering and one needs to find ways to live through it. Many people turn to meditation and prayer—anything that can connect us deeper into ourselves and with the divine.

~ Kat Lahr

The hopelessness of life is like a weak fire, that can only be extinguished using the fire extinguisher called hope.

~ Auliq Ice

Christians sometimes make themselves into elephants afraid of mice. You have the Creator of the universe on your side; not to mention, you've been given eternal life. 'Whom or what shall you fear?' To be afraid of anything other than God himself is like an insult to God.

~ Criss Jami