Quotes About Fear

Rash men wish for dangers beforehand but draw back when they are in them. Brave men are excited at the moment of action, but collected beforehand.

To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill.

But to die to escape from poverty or love or anything painful is not the mark of a brave man, but rather of a coward;

No one loves the man whom he fears

A plot of this kind would, doubtless, satisfy the moral sense, but it would inspire neither pity nor fear; for pity is aroused by unmerited misfortune, fear by the misfortune of a man like ourselves.

Criticism is something you can easily avoid by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Tragedy, then, is a representation of an action that is worth serious attention, complete in itself, and of some amplitude; in language enriched by a variety of artistic devices appropriate to the several parts of the play; presented in the form of action, not narration; by means of pity and fear bringing about the purgation of such emotions.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

To avoid criticism: Say noting, do nothing, be nothing.

So too then is it with the Virtues: for by acting in the various relations in which we are thrown with our fellow men, we come to be, some just, some unjust: and by acting in dangerous positions and being habituated to feel fear or confidence, we come to be, some brave, others cowards.

Unless your hearts are free from worldly hopes and worldly fears you will never speak boldly as you ought to speak.

Lea: I hate the world so much right now that I'm so scared of that day when the world starts hating me back for it. Greg: To hell with the world, Lea!! Fuck it if the world doesn't need you!! I need you!!

Only people, especially Anglo-Saxons, are so afraid lest joyfulness may somehow be reprehensible that they will never admit it as a lawful and laudable end in itself.

I was also going to give a graduation speech in Arizona this weekend. But with my accent, I was afraid they would try to deport me.

Eentonigheid is een vorm van zekerheid, met eentonigheid kun je angst bezweren.

Geluk werd tegenwoordige tijd en geluk dat tegenwoordige tijd is geworden is angstaanjagend geluk, geluk in de verleden tijd of in de toekomende tijd is stukken draaglijker.

It wasn't so easy like you think. Everybody was so starving and frightened, and tired they couldn't believe even what's in front of their eyes.

But he knew well enough that any man in the right circumstances could be dehumanised by panic.

The Devil in the Dark] impressed me because it presented the idea, unusual in science fiction then and now, that something weird, and even dangerous, need not be malevolent. That is a lesson that many of today's politicians have yet to learn.

Religion is a by-product of fear. For much of human history it may have been a necessary evil, but why was it more evil than necessary? Isn't killing people in the name of god a pretty good definition of insanity?

The greatest danger is panic

any man, in the right circumstances, could be dehumanized by panic.

He wanted to close his eyes and shut out the pearly nothingness that surrounded him, but that was an act of a coward and he would not yield to it.

Enjoy them while you may," answered Rashaverak gently. "They will not be yours for long." It was advice that might have been given to any parent in any age: but now it contained a threat and a terror it had never held before.