Quotes About Fear

Why should we faint, and fear to live alone, Since all alone, so Heaven has will'd, we die?

The only exercise that Tess took at this time was after dark; and it was then, when out in the woods, that she seemed least solitary... She had no fear of the shadows; her sole idea seemed to be to shun mankind—or rather that cold accretion called the world, which, so terrible in the mass, is so unformidable, even pitiable, in its units.

Like all people who have known rough times, light-heartedness seemed to her too irrational and inconsequent to be indulged in except as a reckless dram now and then; for she had been too early habituated to anxious reasoning to drop the habit suddenly...Her triumph was tempered by circumspection, she had still that field-mouse fear of the coulter of destiny despite fair promise, which is common among the thoughtful who have suffered early from poverty and oppression.

Tell me now, Angel, do you think we shall meet again after we are dead? I want to know. He kissed her to avoid a reply at such a time. O, Angel--I fear that means no! said she, with a suppressed sob. And I wanted so to see you again-- so much, so much! What--not even you and I, Angel, who love each other so well?

But this encompassment of her own characterization, based on shreds of convention, peopled by phantoms and voices antipathetic to her, was a sorry and mistaken creation of Tess's fancy—a cloud of moral hobgoblins by which she was terrified without reason.

Her suspense was terrible.

The trees have inquisitive eyes, haven't they?—that is, seem as if they had. And the river says,—'Why do ye trouble me with your looks?' And you seem to see numbers of to-morrows just all in a line, the first of them the biggest and clearest, the others getting smaller and smaller as they stand farther away; but they all seem very fierce and cruel and as if they said, 'I'm coming! Beware of me! Beware of me!' … But

No average man will molest a woman by day or night, at home or abroad, unless she invites him. Until she says by a look Come on he is always afraid to, and if you never say it, or look it, he never comes.

To find themselves utterly alone at night where company is desirable and expected makes some people fearful; but a case more trying by far to the nerves is to discover some mysterious companionship when intuition, sensation, memory, analogy, testimony, probability, induction—every kind of evidence in the logician's list—have united to persuade consciousness that it is quite in isolation. Farmer

And you seem to see numbers of to-morrows just all in a line, the first of them the biggest and clearest, the others getting smaller and smaller as they stand farther away; but they all seem very fierce and cruel and as if they said, 'I'm coming! Beware of me! Beware of me!

She tried to pray to God, but it was her husband who really had her supplication. Her idolatry of this man was such that she herself almost feared it to be ill-omened. She was conscious of the notion expressed by Friar Lawerence, These violent delights have violent ends. It might be too desperate for human conditions--too rank, too wild, too deadly.

I have no fear of men, as such, nor of their books

old-fashioned machinery, which he feared would not enlighten him greatly on modern

Credevo, Angel, che tu mi amassi... amassi me, per quello che sono. Se sono io che tu ami, come puoi guardarmi e parlare così? Tutto ciò mi fa paura! Ho cominciato ad amarti e ti amo, ti amerò per sempre... qualsiasi disgrazia dovesse accadere, qualsiasi cambiamento, perché tu sei proprio tu; non chiedo altro. E allora tu, che sei mio marito, come puoi cessare d'amarmi?»

As you got older, and felt yourself to be at the centre of your time, and not at a point on the circumference, as you had felt when you were little, you were seized with a sort of shuddering, he perceived. All around you there seemed to be something glaring, garish, rattling, and the noises and glares hit upon the little cell called your life, and shook it, and warped it. If he could only prevent himself growing up! He did not want to be a man!

Ojalá hubiera estado sola, como he estado durante el último año, sin esperanzas, ni temores, ni placer, ni dolor.

And, dear miss, you won't harry me and storm at me, will you? because you seem to swell so tall as a lion then, and it frightens me! Do you know, I fancy you would be a match for any man when you are in one o' your takings.

The facility with which even the most timid women sometimes acquire a relish for the dreadful when that is amalgamated with a little triumph, is marvellous.

Kdyby byl úsp?šným ?lovÄ›kem, zažil by úlek, avÅ¡ak neÅ¡tÄ›stí je krásným opiátem pro osobní strach.

You would think such a day would tremble to begin . . .

I am the dragon, and you call me insane.

The advantage of beating a mute is he can't tell on you.

The very air had screams smeared on it. He flinched from the noise in this silent room.

He was numb except for dreading the loss of numbness.