Quotes About Fear

This man might kill me.

I assumed everything bad in the world could happen, because everything bad in the world already did happen

Teeth chattering and my heartbeat thumping behind my eyeballs.

Day, would meet harm on top of it? Wasn't I safe by default?

I don't feel real anymore. I feel like I could disappear.

But Palmerston feared that a new, unified Germany at the heart of Europe would alter the balance of power and threaten English interests as a free Hungary or a republican Spain could not.

Since little-girlhood, we're trained to find the Big Bad Wolf seductive.

Maybe you who condemn me are in greater fear than I who am condemned.

If the butterfly wings its way to the sweet light that attracts it, it's only becasue it doesn't know that the fire can consume it.

Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.

Desire urges me on while fear bridals me

Life - hers and her family's - had become like a constantly twisting road and you never knew what fresh horrors might confront you around every bend; a road full of ruts and jolts. And sometimes you said you couldn't take any more jolts - but somehow you did. You took what came, and you took it with a stamina that you never imagined you possessed; but always you were tense, apprehensive, scared - wondering what was coming next.

There is no vengeance as terrible as the vengeance a coward plots in the dark of his heart.

Combat is fear and management of fear far more than it is organized murder. Those who manage fear best will seize the day.

Back to the company. Back to business. Back to the parade of years. Back to the annals. Back to fear.

What did we do today to frighten the world?

I am a haunted man. I am haunted by the Limper's screams. I am haunted by the Lady's laughter. I am haunted by my suspicion that we are furthering the cause of something that deserves to be scrubbed from the face of the earth. I am haunted by the conviction that those bent upon the Lady's eradication are little better than she. I am haunted by the clear knowledge that, in the end, evil always triumphs.

I am a haunted man. I am haunted by the Limper's screams. I am haunted by the Lady's laughter.

It was a night for screamers. A broiling, sticky night of the sort that abrades that last thin barrier between the civilized man and the monster crouched in his soul.

fright tends to fatten up on ignorance

There is no man so insecure as a bottom-level functionary in a sinecure he has held for a long time. He's done nothing for so long that nothing is all he can do.

There is no man so insecure as a bottom-level functionary in a sinecure he has held for a long time.

Putting things off or not finishing is behavior that many of us adopt to avoid uncomfortable feelings of pain, guilt, shame, anxiety, or fear. Procrastinators

Tengo miedo de creer que el amor es tan sólo un poema inventado por mí.