Fear Quotes - Page 3

Once you let in the word, once you allow it to take root, it will spread like a mold through all of your corners and dark spaces - and with it, the questions, the shivery, splintered fears, enough to keep you permanently awake.

In a world of increasing complexity, the simple man walks alone. Knowing his ways are not of the world. Refusing to complicate and confuse those things which he knows to be true. Love is that which he seeks. Fear he flings aside. To stand tall before his creator and know that he is blessed beyond measure.

There is stability in walking an uncertain path, because you never allow yourself to be misled by what you think you know.

No matter what, don't live a life where you're too scared to die for what you believe in. Always go at it with everything you've got, even if it doesn't seem to be enough.

Relinquishing control to another person is like death: it’s only scary until it finally happens.

We’re all just people making decisions and accepting consequences as we march toward an impending and inevitable death.

I will see every thing I dream to see, I will have every thing I dream to have.
But I fear that once I have attained all of my dreams
That all of my nightmares will follow.

Writer's block is just another name for fear.

In order to deserve, we must pay our dues and steadily work for perfection. We must relish in struggle, and relinquish pride. We must dispel fear and seek enlightenment. We must shun division and honor love. We must know our hearts and seek to understand others. We must try, live, create, feel, grow and love.

All defensiveness and emotional tumult is a fear response because of your need for acceptance and ruthless control of the territory of your safe fantasy world.

I found him between a reality and a nightmare.

Where we fall are the stepping-stones for our journey.

The difference between impossible and possible is a willing heart.

Purpose drives the process by which we become what we are capable of being.

Relax; the world's not watching that closely. It's too busy contemplating itself in the mirror.

My fear of being real, of being seen, paralyzes me into silence. I crave the touch and the connection, but I’m not always brave enough to open my hand and reach out. This is the great challenge: to be seen, accepted, and loved, I must first reveal, offer, and surrender.

Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.

Let us banish fear. We have been in this mental state for three centuries. I am a radical. I am ready to act, if I can find brave men to help me.

What monster sleeps in the deep of your story? You need a monster. Without a monster there is no story.

I'm convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. If one is writing for one's own pleasure, that fear may be mild - timidity is the word I've used here. If, however, one is working under deadline - a school paper, a newspaper article, the SAT writing sample - that fear may be intense.