And yet, I was scared of falling asleep, because the moment I fell asleep my wounds would heal and right then I didn’t want that to happen. Right then, I found a strange but real...

The soldiers in my life had raised the bar for bad guys.

Just because you’re scarred for life doesn’t mean you should be scared to live.

Because holding on to it is killing you.

Lay your life down. Your heartbeats cannot be hoarded. Your reservoir of breaths is draining away. You have hands, blister them while you can. You have bones, make them strain-they can carry nothing in the...

Ghosts are the only ones who never have to feel scared. Because the worst thing in the world has already happened to them.

To waste a life with fear is, really, the scariest thing.

You’re scared of what you can’t control

I was never afraid of the dark and I spent my youth walking through empty playgrounds at midnight, worried mothers telling girls to be careful and ”the world is an ugly place and not everyone...

How does he get that caveman shit to work for him? I would get my balls ripped off and stuffed in my mouth if I pulled what he does.

She had a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, like when you’re swimming and you want to put your feet down on something solid, but the water’s deeper than you think and there’s...

A coward’s gun is emptied when fear pulls the trigger, and hate is the ammunition of choice.

I have always been afraid… Always been pretending to follow you closely, alwyas been pretending to sharpen my teeth, when the truth is, I am … scared to death just treading on your shadow.

She looked up, over the bandage that was nestled under her chin, and saw that the big-belly man with the red beard was starting at her, shaking his head. He looked like he was crying....

I get scared at night. That’s why I got a cat—for protection. Cats are deadlier than Teddy bears.

It’s okay to be crazy and scared and brave at the same time!

What I find really interesting is to try and mix it up, to push myself and try different things. I don’t want to stay in my comfort zone. I want to take risks and keep...

Until two days ago what had driven him was the will to survive: deep, animal, full of rage—but always part of him had not cared at all whether he lived or died. Now he did...

It was the first time I traveled alone, but I was not scared.

I’ve never been scared of the dark, but I’m still terrified of what’s in it.

I don’t know what it is, but he makes me want to knock down all the walls I’ve put up and let him inside. And it scares the shit out of me.

What happens if you get scared half to death twice?

I go to third grade, and I’m scared to death. I’m just 6 years old, and the kids are so much bigger than me.

I have not looked at any of the ‘Pretender’ Web sites. I’m scared of the Internet.

The other veteran said “Listen, mate, everybody gets scared, and anybody says he don’t is a damn liar

Now you bitches can stand here quaking in your boots about what your women might do to you. I’m going to get my woman.

Until that moment she had never thought she could do it. Never thought she would be brave enough or scared enough, or desperate enough to dare.

Whenever you’re scared of something, don’t let that define you. We all feel it, but step up.

Keesha looked at me for a long time. ‘I did leave you alone. We all did. But you didn’t get better. You didn’t stop. You’re still doin’ all your weird shit. And I think it’s...

It is not what we know that scares us, it is what we do not

I was nervous. Like an ice cube, I just froze up. Then I melted in some strange guy’s drink.

Adults are just making things up as they go along. And when they’re scared, adults have no more answers than us kids

…if you don’t regard your word as a sacred covenant, then there is nothing in you I can honor …

She slammed down the phone. The sharp bang shattered my heart like a bottle hitting the sidewalk

Religion is for people who are scared to go to hell. Spirituality is for people who have already been there.

All of a sudden, my right hand was dead, unplugged, and my left was definitely not working right.

Sarah Lynn strides out of the stairwell. Lawrence watches her go. The door slushes shut behind her, and he turns to me with a tightened jaw. I want to tell him: No, no, you’ve got...

I am not scared of anyone. I will write and publish my books.

It all changed when I realized I’m not the only one on the planet who’s scared. Everyone else is, too.

She was a mind floating in an ocean of confusion.

I wonder if your mother was frightened by Peter Pan before you were born?

Don’t be scared,” Willa Mae said.I looked at her. “Aren’t you scared?”Willa Mae looked at me and said, “Shoot. Only thing I’m afraid of is that I’m going to do something I’ll regret.””Being scared is...

To be honest, I’m scared to death of rollercoaster rides.

September 11… I will never forget feeling scared and vulnerable… I will never forget feeling the deep sad loss of so many lives… I will never forget the smell of the smoke that reached across...

Emperors are not made from cowards; they are made from those who take great risk where there stands to be even greater gain.

Three rules to obey!1. Don’t be over-impressed by your past glories! 2. Don’t be scared by your future stories!3. Be hopeful to get out of today’s miseries!

I think if you play a character that is fearless, then it’s boring. I think that’s what was so incredible about Harrison Ford, is that he always seemed like he was never going to survive...

I was eight years old and scared, and had no idea what was going on

I lived in a really dark place. I wasn’t safe in my own mind. I woke up every morning hoping to die and then spent the rest of the day wondering if maybe I was...

I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.