Ted Dekker Quotes

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Among those evils which befall us, there are many which have been more painful to us in the prospect than by their actual pressure.

I spent four days and four nights just covered in blood, falling in the water.

For an overwhelming majority of my life, my country has been a source of pain, fear, and embarrassment.

There was something awful about terror trapped behind silence.

There are evils worse than death.

Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain.

He sobbed in desperation at the burden of fear he carried with him every day of his life.

Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

I am one of the haunted.

My first fear was about the devil, when I was around fire, something I saw in a movie. I think it's about pain, in whichever form it comes. I had a lot of energy as a child - sometimes too much - and I didn't know how to channel it. It was making me suffer. It was bigger than myself, and I was very young.

I associate my motion picture career more with being unhappy and scared, or being under the gun, than with anything pleasant.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

I shudder when relating it.

I had my bully, and it was excruciating. Not only the bully, but the intimidation I felt.

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.

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a pain and agony that are unfamiliar, that wrench me out of myself.

To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes.

The day in 2004 when the radiologist told me I had invasive cancer, I walked down the hospital corridor looking for a phone to call my husband, and I could almost see the fear coming toward me like a big, black shadow.

My first fear was about the devil, when I was around fire, something I saw in a movie. I think it's about pain, in whichever form it comes.

Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.

I was screaming constantly, on the set, in my room... everywhere.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.

And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.