Kristin Hannah Quotes

And me I'm in the bathroom crying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a man when you're scared, just like a little kid.

That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.

Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere - and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity and weakness and fear and anxiety because I think that, at the end of the day, behind our masks, that's what we are.

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

Let’s talk, you and I. Let’s talk about fear. The house is empty as I write this; a cold February rain is falling outside. It’s night. Sometimes when the wind blows the way it’s blowing now, we lose the power. But for now it’s on, and so let’s talk very honestly about fear. Let’s talk very rationally about moving to the rim of madnessand... and perhaps over the edge.

It wasn't so much that he minded telling Leslie that he was afraid to go; it was that he minded being afraid. It was as though he had been made with a great piece missing - one of May Belle's puzzles with this huge gap where somebody's eye should have been. Lord, it would be better to be born without an arm than to go through life with no guts.

I think that many people are ashamed when they feel afraid. There's this thing in our society that you're not allowed to feel scared. You have to be a man and put on a brave face, but we all have fears.

If it's about work or sports or politics or women, we have no problem sharing our opinions, but if it's about our insecurities or our struggles, our fear of failure, then it's almost like we become paralyzed.

We're raised to believe that asking for help - that not having all the answers - is a sign of weakness, somehow challenging our manhood.

I'm such a scaredy cat.

By climbing mountains we were not learning how big we were. We were finding out how breakable, how weak and how full of fear we are.

There is often less danger in the things we fear than in the things we desire.

"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 dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment.

Anger is too pathetic. Anger is as weak as fear.

My father says that fear is good; it's the body's alarm system, it warns us of danger. But sometimes danger can't be avoided, and then you have to forget about being afraid.

I suppose I ought to think up some dramatic, quotable phrase for Public Information and the history books, but I'm damned if any of them come to mind. Besides, admitting the truth wouldn't sound too good. The truth, Russell, is that now the moment's here, I'm scared shitless. Somehow I don't think even Public Information could turn that into good copy.

The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.

I think when you start to get afraid, it's time to leave.

Fear is a friend who's misunderstood

I’m really afraid of spiders and my own feelings.

I don't know anybody who is raising their hand saying, "Oh God, I love being vulnerable and needy."

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.

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