210 Quotes About Frightened

Because of fear, most people don’t dream big. Because of fear, even those who dream big do not start working on them. Because of fear, those who start working on their dreams end up quitting too early.

The world screams, ‘Stay down, it’s safer.’ My soul screams, ‘So is being dead.

I have no interest in being safe. I do however, have every interest in being wise. The former is averse to going forward, while the latter is averse to anything but going forward.

Defense mechanisms protect us. Fortresses isolate us. And far too often we begin with the former and end up constructing the latter.

We think that boxes take everything that’s bad and they lock all that nasty stuff out, when in reality they take everything that we are and they lock all of those great things in.

I’m not all that certain that we can handle magnificence. And I wonder if that’s why we take great things and diminish them through our small stories and weak renderings.

I am fearful of the police.

The tomorrow in my mind is often what I wish today would have been had I not been held hostage to the fears that my yesterday left me with.

No matter how many times we get hurt by love, we still crave it, and those who act like they don't are just wounded and frightened of being hurt again.