Richard Paul Evans Quotes

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

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

Eighty percent of all choices are based on fear. Most people don't choose what they want; they choose what they think is safe.

Fear is the mind-killer.

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.

Fear of trying causes paralysis. Trying causes only trembling and sweating.

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

There's nothing worse than waiting and not knowing what'll happen to you. Your own imagination can be crueler than any captor.

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

This is the century of fear.

July 24, 6:03 A.M. The laundry was warm and the rafters were firm, and Michael Holzapfel jumped from the chair as if it were a cliff... Michael Holzapfel knew what he was doing. He killed himself for wanting to live.

The private terror of the liberal spirit is invariably suicide, not murder.

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.

Fear guides more than gratitude.

I feel certain that I'm going mad again, I feel we can't go thru another of those terrible times. And I shan't recover this time. I begin to hear voices

Mattie sat at the table, obsessing, orbiting around herself. She was sick of her worried, hostile mind. It would have killed her long before, she felt, if it hadn't needed the transportation.

Suicides are timid murderers. Masochism instead of Sadism.

Figure out what scares you the most and do that first.

Living based in security is living based in fear.

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

There's nothing wrong with me...except acute chronic fear.

What you fear most of all is - fear. Very wise.

The fearful are the failing.

Lena knew she had spent too much of her life in a state of passive dread, just waiting for something bad to happen. In a life like that, relief was as close as you got to happiness.