inner fear Quotes

People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls.

I am terrified by this dark thing That sleeps in me; All day I feel its soft, feathery turnings, its malignity.

My biggest fear in life is fear.

I've never dreamed of being famous. The idea of it really scares me.

Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate that the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw. Okonkwo’s fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself.

We may appear to be mean but we're really only frightened.

Anger is always - always - fear in disguise.

It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.

I think tapping into one's power and one's potential is a very frightening thing.

I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.

I'm petrified of facing the camera. Even to shoot for a photograph is an ordeal. But it's important to break free of your inhibitions at some point in your life.

I had to test a new terror in myself.

On this earth, though far and near, without love, there's only fear.

I started thinking: 'Okay, what's wrong with wearing a bikini? I look better than I looked in quite a few years, so why not? What am I afraid of?

I believe in God. I don't fear man, I fear God.

Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the "someday I'll" philosophy.

I was so worried that people wouldn't like me or my story.

If you are never alone you cannot know yourself. And if you do not know yourself, you will begin to fear the void.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.

My heart is afraid that it will have to suffer, the boy told the alchemist one night as they looked up at the moonless sky. Tell your heart that the fear of suffering s worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with Eternity.

The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart.

We all hope for breakthrough rebirth moments. When you're headed for a breakthrough moment, it's kind of scary because you say, 'If I break through then I have to make great change in my life.'

I've always been quite an insecure person.

I'm afraid of me.