Isabel Allende Quotes

I hate being frightened of things. I'm not someone who can say: "Oh, I'm scared of flying, I won't fly." Fear seems to creep over every part of your life so if there's something I identify as frightening to me I want to tackle it.

Fear is like a black cavern that is terrifying. Once you enter the cavern and explore it, you realize that you can get out of it, go through it and get out of it.

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

The fears you run from run to you.

Relieved because what I dreaded most in the whole world was going to happen and I wouldn’t have to live with it anymore—the fear. There is the relief of finally not being alone and the relief of being alone when no one can take anything away from you. Here she was, my beautiful fear. Shiny as crystal lace frost.

She walked fast, to keep ahead of her fear.

But I get frightened sometimes," she admitted."I know. Fear is only fear, though.""And somehow you live without it.""No," he corrected her. "You live with it.

I'm more likely to try and tackle a fear than let it control me.

best way to deal with fear is to face the nightmare!

Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.

To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.

Fear and I were old buddies, despite my best efforts to the contrary.

We all have a fear of the unknown what one does with that fear will make all the difference in the world.

Fear mustn't take control of us.

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

"They tell us that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself, but I don't believe that." he said. Then, a moment later, he added: "Oh, the fear is there, all right. It comes to us in many different forms, at different times, and overwhelms us. But the most frightening thing we can do at such times is to turn our backs on it, to close our eyes. For then we take the most precious thing inside us and surrender it to something else. In my case, that something was the wave."

You don't have to be fearless to do anything, you can be scared out of your mind.

Fear is a hard thing to deal with. I feel it quite strongly. If I think something is important enough, I'll make myself do it in spite of fear. But it can really sap the will. I hate fear, I wish I had it less.

I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it.

I'm not sure why I've decided to do this. I'm not any stronger than I was, and nothing else has changed. But all the same, this time I'm not going to run away. It's okay to feel weak sometimes. It's okay to be afraid. The important thing is that we face our fears. That's what makes us strong."-Yuki

I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.

The next time you encounter fear, consider yourself lucky. This is where the courage comes in. Usually we think that brave people have no fear. The truth is that they are intimate with fear. When I was first married, my husband said I was one of the bravest people he knew. When I asked him why, he said because I was a complete coward but went ahead and did things anyhow.

Overcoming fear doesn't have to be skydiving, if you're afraid of heights. Overcoming fear is an everyday thing. We do it all day long.