Quotes by Fear You can educate yourself right out of a relationship with God. Tammy Faye Bakker atheismfeareducation I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself. Tana French feardarkheart I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity. Sylvia Plath feardarksleep I need more than anything right now what is, of course, most impossible, someone to love me, to be with me at night when I wake up in shuddering horror and fear of the cement tunnels leading down to the shock room, to comfort me with an assurance that no psychiatrist can quite manage to convey. Sylvia Plath tunnelsfearnight I will show you fear in a handful of dust. T. S. Eliot dustfearinspirational Death is the end of the fear of death. [...] To avoid it we must not stop fearing it and so life is fear. Death is time because time allows us to move toward death which we fear at all times when alive. We move around and that is fear. Movement through space requires time. Without death there is no movement through space and no life and no fear. To be aware of death is to be alive is to fear is to move around in space and time toward death. Tao Lin spacefearmoving We had no one else to learn this from- none of our parents were shining examples of relationship success- so we learned this from each other: when someone you love needs you to, you can get a hold of your five-alarm temper, get a hold of the shapeless things that scare you senseless, act like an adult instead of the Cro-Magnon teenager you are, you can do a million things you never saw coming. Tana French teenagershiningfear Fear is a good thing. It mean you're paying attention. Tamora Pierce fearattentionmean I was so afraid of wanting too much that I couldn't trust her handing me a shot at getting it. I don't want to be that senselessly fearful ever again. Tammara Webber too-muchfearwant Talking about my fears to others feeds it. Sylvia Plath feartalking Now I know what loneliness is, I think. Momentary loneliness, anyway. It comes from a vague core of the self - - like a disease of the blood, dispersed throughout the body so that one cannot locate the matrix, the spot of contagion. Sylvia Plath lonelinessfearthinking By running from what we fear, we feed the inner darkness Tara Brach darknessfearrunning Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree. T. S. Eliot wrathfearthinking The bravest person I know is afraid of the dark. She sleeps with a night lamp always, but if her friends are threatened? She suddenly thinks she's a bear twelve feet tall and attacks whoever scared her friends. Tamora Pierce feardarksleep Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Tecumseh fearappreciationinspirational The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all. Ted Hughes regrethurtfear You said that you wanted to put us upon a reservation, to build us houses and make us medicine lodges. I was born where there were no enclosures and everything drew a free breath. I want to die there and not within walls. Ten Bears medicinewallfear I am quite sure I am more afraid of people who are themselves terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself. Teresa of Avila devilfearpeople The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds. Terry Goodkind lightfearnight I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself. Teresa of Avila humilityhalffear«115116117118119120121122123124125»
