Coping with Fear Quotes

Fear is a hard thing to deal with. I feel it quite strongly. If I think something is important enough, I'll make myself do it in spite of fear. But it can really sap the will. I hate fear, I wish I had it less.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

I'm still afraid of things, obviously - we're human. But I like that feeling of being afraid.

The coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave but one'.... (The man who first said that) was probably a coward.... He knew a great deal about cowards but nothing about the brave. The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them.

Not being able to go outside upsets me more than I can say, and I’m terrified our hiding place will be discovered and that we’ll be shot.

I have often been afraid, but I would not give in to it. I made myself act as though I was not afraid and gradually my fear disappeared.

I think it's just fear of death. I can't bear to go to sleep. There's very little, you know, between an entrepreneur and a crazy person.

Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

Who feareth to suffer suffereth already, because he feareth.

My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple.

Nothing is really so very frightening when everything is so very dangerous

No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years?

Living fearlessly is not the same as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.

Attacking or fleeing are part of the struggle; being paralysed by fear is not.

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.

Everybody gets scared sometimes, May Belle. You don't have to be ashamed.

Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.

But I get frightened sometimes," she admitted."I know. Fear is only fear, though.""And somehow you live without it.""No," he corrected her. "You live with it.

Don't try to be unafraid. That is impossible. Rather, go ahead while being afraid. That is the entire secret for abolishing fear. The Supermind teaches us to have no self-concern at all. Whatever happens to you, act as though it happened to someone else.

Relieved because what I dreaded most in the whole world was going to happen and I wouldn’t have to live with it anymore—the fear. There is the relief of finally not being alone and the relief of being alone when no one can take anything away from you. Here she was, my beautiful fear. Shiny as crystal lace frost.

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

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

My mother always says that fear and pain are immediate, and that, when they're gone we're left with the concept, but not the true memory.

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

You're dealing immense, acute amounts of fear, which makes the rest of life a little bit easier. You don't sweat the small stuff so much.