Quotes About Fear

Cuántas cosas podríamos conocer si la cobardía y la pereza no entorpecieran nuestra curiosidad!

I spread the whole earth out as a map before me. On no one spot of its surface could I put my finger and say, here is safety.

kissing me with a violence that was terrifying and yet, somehow, the summit of all my tenderest dreams.

There are few men more superstitious than soldiers. They are, after all, the men who live closest to death.

There was one thing that stood like stone among the music and moonfroth of the evening's gaieties. It was stupid, it was terrifying, it was wonderful, but it had happened and I could do nothing about it. For better or worse, I was head over ears in love...

When you let excitement in, Johnny would add, in a lecture-room sort of voice, fear will follow.

In all that ever mattered, you are unchanged. Old? Yes, we must all grow old. Age is nothing but the sum of life. And you are alive, and back with me here. By the great God of heaven, I have you back with me. What should I fear now?

I supposed there were circumstances in which it was correct, even praiseworthy, for a girl to bash a man's head in with a lamp while he was kissing her...

I dared not advance, dreading a thousand nameless evils that made me tremble, although I was unable to define them.

By fearing the stranger, by abusing the vulnerable and the outcast, society creates its own monsters.

For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to contemplate the divine ideas of liberty and self sacrifice of which these sights were the monuments and the remembrancers. For an instant I dared to shake off my chains and look around me with a free and lofty spirit

the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

I am full of fears; for if I fail there, I am an outcast in the world for ever.

His power and threats were not omitted in my calculations:

I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

He turned on hearing a noise, and perceiving me, shrieked loudly, and quitting the hut, ran across the fields with a speed of which his debilitated form hardly appeared capable.

Fino ad allora la mia vita era stata decisamente solitaria e domestica, e questo mi aveva dato un'invincibile ripugnanza verso volti nuovi.

will revenge my injuries: if I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear; and chiefly towards you my arch-enemy, because my creator, do I swear inextinguishable hatred. Have a care: I will work at your destruction, nor finish until I desolate your heart, so that you curse the hour of your birth.

Like one who, on a lonely road, Doth walk in fear and dread, And, having once turned round, walks on, And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread. Continuing thus, I came at length opposite to the inn at which the various diligences and carriages usually stopped.

Wenn ich nicht Liebe einflößen kann, werde ich Furcht verbreiten, und vor allem dir, mein Erzfeind, weil mein Schöpfer, schwöre ich unauslöschlichen Hass.

but the apple was already eaten, and the angel's arm bared to drive me from all hope. Yet I would die to make her happy. If the monster executed his threat, death was inevitable;

choaked my utterance. I was answered through the stillness of night by a loud and fiendish laugh. It rung

Sometimes the peasants, scared by this horrid apparition, informed me of his path; sometimes he himself, who feared that if I lost all trace I should despair and die, often left some mark to guide me.

Darkness had no effect upon my fancy; and a churchyard was to me merely the receptacle of bodies deprived of life, which, from being the seat of beauty and strength, had become food for the worm.