Quotes About Fear

We need not fear life, because God is the Ruler of all and we need not fear death, because He shares immortality with us.

What I heard from the officers and the generals was, "Kids, this will never end well." Those were the officers I knew, and with some of them I had very close personal contact. None of them were Nazis. They all would say only, "My God, this isn't going to end well.

amount of fear that most Jews perceived grew in a nearly linear fashion

Non-Jews realized well that their non-conformity would not likely get them in trouble, and it almost never did.

The truth about many of our great traditional patriots is ugly or ludicrous; but it makes no difference. They are defended angrily. National feeling in small states is always angry; it must be so, for its roots are in fear and self-doubt and for those things reason is no protection.

I tell you this, my friend; all men are cowards. They dislike a fact except when it is so wrapped up in lies and sentiments that the sharp edge of it cannot hurt them. When a man tells the truth he his, depend upon it, a dangerous man.

If you take away the big words and the solemn face, there is still plenty left, so there is no need to be scared.

I looked at it as a challenge—the only way I'm ever going to overcome this fear or nightmare is to do it.

the Afghans were well aware of what happened in Iraq during the Gulf War, when the Shiites and Kurds believed the leaflets the Americans dropped urging them to rise up against Saddam Hussein. They did, and the Americans did not come. Saddam's forces had retaliated by massacring the insurgents. "The Afghans in the south fear the same fate—they need to be assured

Some people need to stay at the top. They are afraid to re-start from zero because they fear the critics.

When things began to go badly wrong between me and Alice, I had a terrible fear that getting attached to an upper-class girl like her was part of a childhood resentment, connected to my feelings about my mother, to bring down women, and that deep inside I was thinking, "Here's an Ormsby-Gore, and I'm going to make her suffer.

Torschlusspanik. It basically means that you're seeing the window of your life closing and you're terrified.

Nancy Ward was almost eighty years old. For a moment, Tiana was frozen by the sight. Half exultant—if she could be like that, at that age!—and half petrified. It was like watching some ancient, terrible creature, rising from its lair.

Because you brand our tongues with silence. Because you watch us in fear, even while we sing.

In spaces too small for light to crawl I'll hide everything I own. I'll keep you there for safety. I'll build a shelter for your fears. I'll be your own suicide bomber, a satellite in the dwindling orbits, a mortal Om.

It would not be surprising if the villagers were afraid of these wild animals and tried to protect themselves from them, which would also explain why they had no doors or windows in their houses, so the animals could not get in that way. By using ladders, which the animals could not climb, the inhabitants were able to ensure their survival, at least from unwanted predators at night. No other explanation works as well.

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

The fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

People feel uncomfortable talking about racial issues out of fear that if they express things, they will be characterized in a way that's not fair. I think that there is still a need for a dialogue about things racial that we've not engaged in.

It's scary telling someone you care about, someone you love who you really are.

paranoia, the first cousin of a bastard named fear

safety and love are both illusions!