Shaun Livingston Quotes

I had a constant fear, a constant little doubt in my mind: 'OK, I'm getting ready to do my standing back full on beam and I might re-tear my ACL.'

I was hit by a car. I almost died. My show was taken away from me. I was frightened.

I prayed like a man walking in a forest at night, feeling his way with his hands, at each step fearing to fall into pure bottomlessness forever. Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart.

I've had a couple of family members deal with cancer, and I remember that moment where they're going into surgery, and you just have no idea what's going to happen, and it's really scary.

Once you know how completely and suddenly the earth can open up at your feet and the worst can happen, it also, paradoxically, leaves you more afraid of everything else.

Sometimes as a man, you fear what you can't see. Nobody can predict the future. You don't know what's going to happen. Tomorrow's not promised. The only thing you can do is live your life, hope for the best, continue to have faith, believe in yourself.

We live in a very scary time. Or should I say we don't live at all.

Even now, as I write this, I can still feel that tightness. And I want you to feel it--the wind coming off the river, the waves, the silence, the wooded frontier. You're at the bow of a boat on the Rainy River. You're twenty-one years old, you're scared, and there's a hard squeezing pressure in your chest. What would you do? Would you jump? Would you feel pity for yourself? Would you think about your family and your childhood and your dreams and all you're leaving behind? Would it hurt? Would it feel like dying? Would you cry, as I did?

In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear?

I’m afraid to close my eyes, I’m afraid to open them

Danger is the very basis of superstition. It produces a searching after help supernaturally when human means are no longer supposed to be available.

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

Sometimes we don't know how afraid we are until we've reached a strange door and we don't know what will be on the other side.

This is the century of fear.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself.

One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed her and did not leave her until the night closed in catastrophe for she had no instinct for self-preservation if she was confronted by ambiguities.

Whatever you think this is going to be like," she whispers, "it's going to be worse.

At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past .

Where I came from, the nights I had wandered and survived scared them, and where I would go they never imagined.

It's the unknown that I fear, the bites of memories that still have no connections.

The fear of death in the one place was not as strong as another kind of fear, the fear of a world gone crazy, a place where anything could happen, where nothing could be trusted, where nothing was certain. A terrible place.

what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren. And most of that fear is the fear of not knowing, of not actually seeing correctly.

It was better to know the worst than to wonder.

The thing is, you don't get to know. It's not like you wake up with a bad feeling in your stomach. You don't see shadows where there shouldn't be any. You don't remember to tell your parents you love them or--in my case--remember to say good-bye to them at all.

Fear that makes faith may break faith.