Quotes about Fear

The rich of this world will vanish like smoke, and no memory of their past pleasures will remain. But even in their lifetime they do not enjoy them without bitterness, weariness and fear, for the very things whence they derive their pleasures often carry with them the seeds of sorrow.

No one ever told me grief felt so much like fear.

Worries, he'd learned, are like rabbits: they compound in the dark.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

After a few months without writing, months I've lived turned outward... I fear going deaf, not being able to hear the silence.

Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change. - Clara the clairvoyant

Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them," wrote Margaret Atwood.

Are you afraid?" asked Alma. "No. I suppose that what comes after death is the same as before birth.

I do not fear my vulnerability because I no longer confuse it with weakness.

Irina could not imagine the courage it took to grow old without becoming too frightened; her knowledge of age

Carme told them she couldn't remember what she felt, but she realized it's hard to die, and to invite death is cowardice.

You say you're a coward, but it takes courage to say good-bye to everything and cross a threshold without any idea where it leads.