Quotes About Fear

Feigheit wird manchmal belohnt.

There's nothing scarier than groupthink.

anyone in horror's path is irrevocably altered.

If you ask me, people are unnecessarily gloomy about the end of the world.

Correva, sempre più veloce, più sciolto, col cuore che bussava ma dall'esterno verso l'interno come se smaniasse di riconquistare la sua sede. Correva come non aveva mai corso, come nessuno aveva mai corso, e le creste delle colline dirimpetto, annerite e sbavate dal diluvio, balenavano come vivo acciaio ai suoi occhi sgranati e semiciechi. Correva, e gli spari e gli urli scemavano, annegavano in un immenso, invalicabile stagno tra lui e i nemici.

Ma abbiamo paura, viviamo sempre tremando e per questo la vita ci disgusta, ma l'amiamo anche ed è tremendo andare a letto ogni sera senza la certezza di svegliarsi al mattino.

Poi nella sua spina dorsale si spiralò, lunga e lenta, l'onda della paura della battaglia ripensata.

To know how to deal with the present and to guard against worry and fear--that is true wisdom and the ultimate aim of philosophy.

What the bad man most fears is certain to come to him--that is death. It is just as certain to the good man, but to him it is welcome.

I've got an awful lot of unpublished stuff lying around, but at my age, it's hard to go to auditions and rehearsals and all the rest. Besides, you get frightened. You can stand success, but you're afraid of failure.

In contrast, his parents considered climbing a completely useless and dangerous activity.

In one way fear is also God's daughter, redeemed on the night of Holy Friday. She is not beautiful to look at -- oh no! -- ridiculed at times, at others cursed, disowned by everyone ... and yet, make no mistake about it, she is present at every deathbed--she is man's intercessor.

Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.

Void fascinates those who daren't look into it. They throw themselves in, for fear of falling.

Success, in the words of Winston Churchill, "consists of going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm." The greatest barriers to success so far have been the fear of failure and the failure to learn from mistakes.

In the end, living is defined by dying. Bookended by oblivion, we are caught in the vice of terror, squeezed to bursting by the approaching end.

A society that fears knowledge is a society that fears itself.

For me, the words 'Anything is possible' haven't served as a bolstering of hope as much as a warning to run for cover

I traveled a road that was supposed to be fatal before and came out alive. I met quite a few unpleasant characters on my journey and had a few anxious moments, but I learned from them that the best weapon you can give an enemy is your own fear.

Discipline strengthens the mind so that it becomes impervious to the corroding influence of fear.

It may have all been a bravura show of solidarity by a bunch of scared people who saw their world crashing down on them, but it looked real to me. The accused looked like a bunch of carefree kids who had just wrapped up high school and were heading off to the shore for some sun and fun before they started college. Then I heard a voice next to me saying, "It's such a tragedy. They're such beautiful boys and this will scar them forever.

There are no wrong books. What's wrong is the fear of them.

When Men fly from danger, it is natural for them to run farther than they need.

Now take care, Sir Gawain, Not to shrink from danger. This is quite an ordeal That you have taken on.