Sherman Alexie Quotes

I'd say my greatest fear is fear itself.

Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.

I think every role is always exciting and intimidating. I've never had a role where I wasn't intimidated by it.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

I don't understand why people say that I am full of courage. I feel terribly nervous.

The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

I'm definitely not a fearless individual.

Fear is such a huge thing that holds us back.

Really, when you look at it, you're not battling the chemo, you're battling yourself the whole time. It was me versus me. There were many times where I didn't know if I would wake up tomorrow. I would just be up, scared to go to sleep.

Every day, I walk the streets with my head held high, but deep down inside, sometimes I'm like, 'I just hope I can get through the day.'

Everybody has had that experience of really wanting to do something and being afraid.

Fear and Guilt are the only enemies of man.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

Sure, I’m dramatic and sloppily semi-cynical and semi-sentimental. But, in leisure years I could grow and choose my way. Now I am living on the edge. We all are on the brink, and it takes a lot of nerve, a lot of energy, to teeter on the edge, looking over, looking down into the windy blackness and not being quite able to make out, through the yellow, stinking mist, just what lies below in the slime, in the oozing, vomit-streaked slime; and so I could go on, my thoughts, writing much, trying to find the core, the meaning for myself.

Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

You have to have fear in order to have courage.

And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?

You cannot be brave if you do not have a coward inside you.

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

The prey of fear, he, always curtailed, extinguished, thwarted by the dusk, work partly done, says to the alternating blaze, "Again the sun! anew each day; and new and new and new, that comes into and steadies my soul."

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

Gee, I certainly hope I'm not a scary person in real life. It's not like people run from me when they see me. People are usually pretty nice when they meet me. If they're scared, they keep their shuddering to themselves.

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear.