“Because being so dependent on people scares me.”
Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road
Source: On the Jellicoe Road
On a Zane Lowe interview, 2014. source https://youtube.com/watch?v=9pF7bS_4JnE
“Because being so dependent on people scares me.”
Melina Marchetta book On the Jellicoe Road
Source: On the Jellicoe Road
“The secret to not being afraid is to understand what scares you”
Deborah Wiles (1953) American children's writer
Source: Countdown
“The beginning of genius is being scared shitless.”
Louis-ferdinand Céline (1894–1961) French writer
Source: The Church: A Comedy in Five Acts
“I didn’t want to scare you. We don’t want to scare anyone.”
Octavia E. Butler book Adulthood Rites
“No? Well, sometimes it’s a good thing to scare people. Sometimes fear is all that will keep them from doing stupid things.”
Part II “Phoenix” chapter 15 (p. 381)
Adulthood Rites (1988)
“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.”
John Wayne (1907–1979) American film actor
“Being scared isn't the problem. It's not running away that's the hard part.”
John Connolly (1968) author
Source: Nocturnes
“You have decided being scared is caused mostly by thinking.”
David Foster Wallace (1962–2008) American fiction writer and essayist
“So scared of getting older, I'm only good at being young.”
John Mayer (1977) guitarist and singer/songwriter