Quotes about Fear

What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy.

In every dream journey, there comes a moment when you have to quit living as if the purpose of life is to arrive safely at death.

Never underestimate the desire to bolt.

Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker.

Let not thy divining heart Forethink me any ill; Destiny may take thy part, And may thy fears fulfill.

Fear comes not from God but from the evil one.

Robert McKee says humans naturally seek comfort and stability. Without an inciting incident that disrupts their comfort, they won't enter into a story. They have to get fired from their job or be forced to sign up for a marathon. A ring has to be purchased. A home has to be sold. The character has to jump into the story, into the discomfort and the fear, otherwise the story will never happen.

It costs personal fear to be authentic but the reward is integrity, and by that I mean a soul fully integrated, no difference between his act and his actual person. Having integrity is about being the same person on the inside that we are on the outside, and if we don't have integrity, life becomes exhausting.

I know, from the three visits I made to him, the blended composite of love and fear that exists only in a boy's notion of his father.

They never tell you when you get born a control freak it will cost you a healthy love life. But it's true. You can't control somebody and have intimacy with them at the same time. They may stay because they fear you, but true love casts out fear.

How can we be loved if we are always in hiding?

I have a pastor friend who says the root of sin is the desire for control. I think there's some truth to that. And I'd add the root of control is fear.