Quotes About Fear

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Every boy knows he is immortal, but his parents, they are not so sure.

Vivimos de prisa, y, como nuestra existencia es cada día más corta en razón á la celeridad con que caminamos, naturalmente queremos abarcar mucho y muchas cosas en breve tiempo, siempre ante el temor de llegar demasiado tarde y de que otros nos lleven la delantera.

ni al mar irritado, ni a los monstruos acuáticos, ni a la ruidosa tempestad, ni al cielo, ni a la tierra; no tenía miedo a cosa alguna creada por Dios más que a su bendita mujer.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

Phoebe lay rigid, staring into the darkness. It was often like this; she would go to sleep and then after an hour or two would start awake from a nightmare not a single detail of which had stayed with her.

The years at Carricklea had left him with a lurking fear of all appointed figures of authority that no subsequent accumulation of authority of his own could rid him of.

Woe to the man who in the first moments of a love-affair does not believe that it will last forever! Woe to him who even in the arms of some mistress who has just yielded to him maintains an awareness of trouble to come and foresees that he may later tear himself away!

One does not conjure away dangers by shielding them from the public eye. Far from it: they grow from the very night which surrounds them. Objects look larger in the darkness. In the shadow, everything appears gigantic and hostile.

The most dangerous strategy is to jump a chasm in two leaps.

He that's secure is not safe.

Fear God, and your enemies will fear you.

Fear not death for the sooner we die, the longer we shall be immortal.

Vessels large may venture more, But little boats should keep near shore.

Quien renuncia a su libertad por seguridad, no merece ni libertad ni seguridad

Keep Conscience clear, then never fear.

Some to make themselves considerable pursue Learning, others grasp at Wealth, some aim at being thought witty, and others are only careful to make the most of an handsome Person; But what is Wit, or Wealth, or Form, or Learning when compar'd with Virtue? 'Tis true, we love the handsome, we applaud the Learned, and we fear the Rich and Powerful; but we even Worship and adore the Virtuous.

Those who are feared are hated.

123. To confess a Fault, that is none, out of Fear, is indeed mean: But not to be afraid of standing in one, is Brutish.

A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little.

I'm a firm believer that, from the time you're born until the second your last breath has been drawn from your body, our lives are all about taking risks. It's how you respond to those risks, when everything is on the line, which truly defines a person's life.

D?vod vytvo?ení tolika trestných ?in? je stejný, jako vždy byl u všech diktatur: pot?eba udržovat ob?any ve strachu a nev?domosti, co sm?jí a co nesm?jí, a možnost trestat kohokoli kdykoli za cokoli.

Hast du manchmal Angst?", fragt er. "Ich meine nicht Angst vor einer Prüfung. Oder dem Erzieher. Sondern so richtig Angst. So Angst vor dem Leben. Weißt du?" Troy schluckt. Er beugt sich nach vorn. "Leben ist Angst haben", sage ich. Mir wird unangenehm. Eigentlich habe ich noch nie darüber nachgedacht. Aber ich glaube, es stimmt.