Quotes about fear

Who did she think was listening? Was she only praying because she was afraid?

Yes, she thought, continuing to paint. I’m afraid. And I have to hope that someone, somewhere, is listening. That someone has a plan. That it all matters somehow.

Jasnah took comfort in the idea that there was no plan, that everything was random. She said that a chaotic universe meant the only actions of actual importance were the ones they decided were important. That gave people autonomy.

How small we make our worlds. Gather them in, tighten them up into little castles of fear.

But Jesus, when you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both it's health, you worry about getting rupture or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.

Yet I strode on austere;

No hope could have no fear.

I was terrified of that ghost just like they were, but I never let anyone know it. That way, I knew they might call me a lot of awful names ... but one of them wasn't coward.

I think a lot of us share a fear that we and people we love will lose control of our own destinies at the end of life.

Because I feer the irreparable loss of holding someone dear.

Harry Dresden: Death is only frightening from the near side.

Harry Dresden: Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean that there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.

Men change their gods, and when they have changed them often enough they cease to fear their power.

Both sexes had an unconscious investment in keeping men from expressing feelings of fear and vulnerability.

A man fears that conflict with his wife will lead to less intimacy, not more intimacy.