Sara Shepard Quotes

The fear's as bad as falling.

... from our vantage point it is now clear that the only thing the population had to fear was fear itself.

There's, like, a dark needle or a nail that lives at the back of all of our heads, and that's your fear.

Hope itself is a pain, while it is overmatched by fear.

This is the century of fear.

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.

Fear creates a form of spiritual amnesia

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

I still feel I'm going to wake up any moment, and my skin's going to break out all over.

I think that fear comes about when there's things in the world that we want to change, things we're scared or angry about, and we can't change them, and so we become fearful; we develop anxiety.

The mark of fear is not easily removed.

Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.

The crimes that become iconic etch themselves into the collective consciousness because they suggest a frightening truth: that the universe does not rely on cause and effect.

It's hard to sleep at night because I'm still wondering where my mother is.

Fear has governed my life, if I think about it.

Latin Americans hold on tight even to pain and suffering, preferring a certain present to an uncertain future. Some of this is only natural, entirely human. But for us, the fear is paralyzing; it generates not only anxiety but also paralysis.

There's horror in your life, believe me, whether it's coming, or you've just been lucky to miss it today.

The best-case scenario is that the glass shatters in my face! How do you think that makes me feel?

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

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.

Horror can be contained within a book, given form and meaning. But in life, horror has no more form than it does meaning. Horror just is.

I know that when I talk to my parents and my friends, there's a strong feeling of the world out of control and damaged.

It is not the cares of today, but the cares of tomorrow, that weigh a man down.

I'm pretty mad at horror films for ruining my childhood.