Bernard Beckett Quotes

The fear's as bad as falling.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

Fear is the most damnable, damaging thing to human personality in the whole world.

I've always felt that if you back down from a fear, the ghost of that fear never goes away. It diminishes people.

Fear is the mind-killer.

This is the century of fear.

Terrible thing to live in fear. Brooks Hatlen knew it. Knew it all too well. All I want is to be back where things make sense. Where I won't have to be afraid all the time.

Being frightened of things is worse than the things themselves.

The truth is, I was afraid the day I walked into Stanford. And I was afraid the day I walked out.

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

'House of Leaves' is certainly about the unsettling nature of fear - and it was my aim to address that - but it's also about recovering from fear.

Fears are nothing more than a state of mind.

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

I'm starting to understand that fear is like cancer - you can beat it back, but if it returns, it can be worse than ever.

I'm afraid of everything. I'm not a naturally courageous person.

Because people are afraid of fear, they give up acre after acre of their own life.

Sometimes I feel like there is so much to be afraid of, and sometimes I feel like there is nothing left to fear.

If the next car passed is blue, Violet will be okay, she thought. If it's red, A will do something horrible to her. She heard a growl of an engine and shut her eyes, afraid to see what the future might hold. She'd never cared so much about anything in her life. Just as the car was passing, she opened her eyes and saw a Mercedes hood ornament. She let out a long sigh, tears coming to her eyes once more. The car was blue.

FEAR IS THE MIND-KILLER. FEAR IS THE LITTLE-DEATH THAT BRINGS TOTAL OBLITERATION.

Once fear enters your life - it will take you in one of two directions: empowerment or panic.

Anxiety is practising failure in advance. Anxiety is needless and imaginary. It's fear about fear, fear that means nothing.

I was frightened to go forward, but I was even more frightened of going back.

The things we fear the most have already happened to us.

For many years we have suckled on fear and fear alone, and there is no good product of fear.