208 Quotes About Fearful

The paramount terror that plagues humankind is to live a meaningless life of an exile, an incomplete person whom fails to experience the rapture of living in an astonishing manner.

I’ve heard it said that it’s much easier to run ‘from’ life. That might be true, until we come to the realization that where we’re running ‘to’ will eventually be a whole lot worse than what we’re running ‘from.’ And as for any other places to which we might be able to run, every one of them will always fall into one of these two categories.

Resolving our fear occurs by walking into that which we fear rather than thinking about how we resolve our fears without the walking.

I can rather effectively protect myself from failure by crafting genuinely convincing rationales that justify my unwillingness to try. But I might consider the fact that an action such as this is the real failure. And there’s no protection in that.

For the frightened, running in a circle is the illusion of a journey.

It is not the presence of fear that bothers me. Rather, it is the cowardice within me that refuses to face the fear. That is what bothers me.

Her fear was infectious, and though I was too young to truly know terror, I felt it in my heart and trembled.

I might define a ‘journey’ as something that life itself calls me to. And I might then define a ‘trip’ as something I create to avoid a journey by mimicking a journey. And while fear is most certainly part and parcel of both, the latter is emboldened by fear while the former surrenders to it.

Comfort is not a goal that I seek, rather it is a place that I hide.