Quotes About Fear

The fear o' hell 's a hangman's whip To haud the wretch in order; But where ye feel your honour grip, Let that aye be your border.

Life would be very miserable indeed were I to spend it in terror of the thing that has not yet happened.

Like all his kind and all other bullies, von Schoenvorts was a coward at heart.

This was a new menace that threatened them, something that they couldn't explain; and so, naturally, it aroused within them superstitious fear.

Consider the impasse of a one-God universe. He is all-knowing and all-powerful. He can't go anywhere, since He is already everywhere. He can't do anything, since the act of doing presupposes opposition. His universe is irrevocably thermodynamic, having no friction by definition. So, He has to create friction: War, Fear, Sickness, Death, to keep his dying show on the road.

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

I began to get a feeling ... of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact.

People have nothing to say, but they are afraid of saying nothing, so what they do say comes out flat and vapid and meaningless. The shadow of death is on every face.

I've never known fear; as a youth I fought/ In endless battles. I am old, now,/ But I will fight again, seek fame still,/ If the dragon hiding in his tower dares/ To face me

The fear of some divine and supreme powers, keeps men in obedience.

A teacher once described the Haitians in her class as very obedient and polite. I said that's because their families will beat them if they get in trouble. Sensing my disapproval, she said it is good that they discipline their kids. Yes, but it can be taken too far when they instill fear of authority and beat the spirit out of their children.

There needs no other charm, nor conjuror, To raise infernal spirits up, but Fear, That makes men pull their horns in, like a snail, That?s both a prisoner to itself and jail; Draws more fantastic shapes than in the grains Of knotted wood, in some men?s crazy brains, When all the cocks they think they are, and bulls, Are only in the insides of their skulls.

Sometimes the day you long for turns as sour as month-old Yaks' milk, while the one you dread blows in with floral breath.

When you are not at hand to kiss away my fears I cannot choose but be wretched.

Don't be careful. You could hurt yourself.

We are the fools of Time and Terror: Days Steal on us, and steal from us; yet we live, Loathing our life, and dreading still to die.

Too oft is a smile But the hypocrite's wile, To mask detestation, or fear; Give me the soft sigh, Whilst the soul-telling eye Is dimm'd, for a time, with a Tear.

Dicen que los pueblos primitivos experimentaban la noche con tanto miedo de que el Sol no volviera a salir, que cuando lo hacía, celebraban con cantos, bailes y bebidas fermentadas. Con máscaras, risotadas y un ritmo percusivo que se festejaba a sí mismo, con el color y el brillo de la luz trasladado al sonido, al movimiento... Pero ¿no era todo círculo? ¿La vida no era un círculo?

The day is coming; double your breath, triple your rancorous goodness and scorn fear, connections and affectation, for you, as one can observe in your crotch, the evil one being aie! immortal, have dreamed tonight that you were living on nothing and dying from everything...

Of his first enemy encounter, Gen. Grant said that after his initial fear, "My heart resumed its place." Grant said he suddenly realized his potential enemy he had been "as much afraid of me as I had been of him.

Seems like people always want to think they're doomed. It brings them some kind of black comfort, I guess. Nate

We can't be afraid of change. You may feel very secure in the pond that you are in, but if you never venture out of it, you will never know that there is such a thing as an ocean, a sea. Holding onto something that is good for you now, may be the very reason why you don't have something better.

Don't be afraid of your fears. They're not there to scare you. They're there to let you know that something is worth it.

Patience is often merely the guise of Cowardice.