Quotes About Fear

Fear is a wolf on a chain, only dangerous when you set it free. Sorrow exhausts itself in the net of forgetting. Anger, for all its fury, can be killed by a smile. Only hope goes on forever, because hope doesn't belong to us: it belongs to our ancestors, the first of our kind, whose brave love for one another gave us most of the good that we are.

Cowardece is often just another name for being taken by surprise.

Its a fact of being in love that we often pay no attention whatsoever to the substance of what a lover says, while being intoxicated to ecstasy by the way it's said. I was in love with her eyes, but I didn't read them. I loved her voice, but I didn't really hear the fear & the anguish in it.

What we call cowardice is often just another name for being taken by surprise, and courage is seldom any better than simply being well prepared.

A dream is a place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same we call the dream a nightmare.

Fear dries a man's mouth, and hate strangles him. That's why hate has no great literature: real fear and real hate have no words.

Fear and guilt are the dark angels that haunt rich men, Khader said to me once. I wasn't sure if that was true, or if he simply wanted it to be true, but I did know from experience that despair and humiliation haunt the poor.

The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.

A dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare. If fate does not make you laugh, you just don't get the joke.

I don't know what frightens me more, the power that crushes us or our endless ability to endure it.

Fear and guilt haunt the rich. Despair and humiliation haunt the poor.

Sometimes the lion must roar to remind the horse of his fear.

When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.

At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone.

At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they are dead and gone. For I still love you with the whole of my heart. I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.

The world is run by one million evil men, ten million stupid men, and a hundred million cowards.

Men don't like to be that honest about love: to put the gun in a woman's hand, and hold it against their own hearts, and say, Here, this is how you kill me. But it was okay. It was okay.

A dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, we call the dream a nightmare.

At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're gone...

He wanted to tell me that he is in love with me. Why did I stop him? Am I so ashamed that it might be true?

You're a good listener. That's dangerous, because its so hard to resist. Being listener to - really listened to - is the second-best thing in the world. What's the first best thing? Everybody knows that. The best thing in the world is power. ... And what about love? A lot of people say that love is the best thing in the world, not power. They're wrong. Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.

Fear is a poverty of Truth, and Greed is a poverty of Faith

At first, when we truly love someone, our greatest fear is that the loved one will stop loving us. What we should fear and dread, of course, is that we won't stop loving them, even after they're dead and gone. For I still love you with the whole of my heart. I still love you. And sometimes, my friend, the love that I have and can't give to you, crushes the breath from my chest. Sometimes, even now, my heart is drowning in a sorrow that has no stars without you, and no laughter, and no sleep.

a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare