Every day Quote by Geraldine Brooks

“I lost the ability to fear and panic. Instead I felt practical and causal. I had never known time to pass so acutely before.…

— Sarah Hall

“But the worst was that as time wore on, I became more and more afraid of myself, or perhaps more conscious of the fear…

— Siri Hustvedt

“And I felt fear. Fear of that bleak horizon, fear of that destiny. I felt my soul shriveling, I felt it retreating, and I…

— Milan Kundera

“Fears are to be faced, not denied, and life is to be lived, not mourned.”

— Adele Griffin

“and the thought of relieving my mourning, even slightly, for a moment filled me with a kind of fear.”

— Ahdaf Soueif

“I was afraid of maddened faces, of lanterns being shone in my eyes, of blind mindless rage. I was afraid of cold, of hunger,…

— Teffi

“Maybe there was a very good reason for the primal terror that lies in every human heart, a forgotten understanding that there are some…

— Eyre Price

“Something was unfurling within me from behind the fear of societal expectation. Something true and deep. A part of my soul I'd always known…

— Natasha Boyd

“Fear? Back then, I didn't even realize what that new feeling was. Later, when it overwhelmed me and almost pulled me under, I understood.…

— Annemarie Schwarzenbach

“I wanted to go on sitting there, not talking, not listening to the others, keeping the moment precious for all time, because we were…

— Daphne du Maurier

“For the entirety of my young and skittish life, I had fixated upon my fear as if it were the most interesting thing about…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“And then something happened. It was a fragment of time, a breath of time. It was like being in a car in pouring rain…

— Jaclyn Moriarty