Quotes About Fear

We believe that modern-day Hitlers have deliberately adulterated the oral polio vaccines with anti-fertility drugs and contaminated it with certain viruses which are known to cause HIV and AIDS," the chairman of the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria maintained, urging parents to refuse vaccination.

I wake up afraid that she will be taken and folded up in a closet like clean linen.

I'm afraid something will happen to my hands," he says, "I need my hands.

He is someone who believes he can break things, or he believes that anything can hurt him.

A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger.

Cowards do not count in battle they are there, but not in it.

Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.

Anger exceeding limits causes fear and excessive kindness eliminates respect.

Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.

Dear Diary, until now I didn't want to write about this in you because I tried to put it out of my mind, but ever since the Germans are here, all I think about is Marta. She was also just a girl, and still, the Germans killed her. But I don't want them to kill me!"

To be an adult is to be close to death.

Herr Altenburg, I can't; I have vertigo.' And Marek looked at him: 'All right - I'll get the chemist to fix me something.

That's silly, Anna," said the Honorable Olive. "Being afraid is silly, you know it is.

A faint terror lest she begin to curtsy took hold of Rupert.

What are you afraid of then?" "Not being able to see, I think, [...] not seeing because you're obsessed by something that blots out the world. Some sort of mania or belief. Or passion. That awful kind of love that makes leaves and birds and cherry blossom invisible because it's not the face on some man.

Every night I had nightmares. I dreamed of rats the size of cats, dead bodies, and needles stuck into me. After we found out that the Nazi's had made soup out of Jewish fat, I dreamed that soap bars spoke to me in the voices of my parents and sisters, asking me, "Why are you washing with us?

Recuerdo la nocturna procesión de niños y más niños, tan asustados, tan callados, tan bonitos. Si pudiéramos ver tan solo a uno de ellos se nos partiría el alma. En cambio a los asesinos no se les partió el alma. Más duro, sin embargo, es haberlo vivido.

Our worst fears had come to pass. As of 15 May 1940 we were living under Nazi occupation, and we had nowhere else to go.

It's only gotten to the point where it's easier for us to imagine the destruction of the world than the changing of our economic system

The man holding me had a pistol in his other hand; I saw it in the comer of my eye just before I felt its cold hardness crunch into my temple; pressed against my face, the pistol was hard in a way that seemed absolute, bone-smashing, beyond argument, and cold in a way that seemed perfect and permanent;

Sometimes it's like I'm living my life waiting for more bad news.

Instead of healing the past with words, he and Helen had reached a point where words were suddenly too dangerous to be used.

Always do what you're afraid to do"-Robert F. Kennedy

In part because Americans were fearful of enemies within, they went looking for enemies abroad. War and conquest have served to distract nations from their internal contradictions and conflict for as long as nations have existed.