Quotes About Fear

Is it easier for a man to live his life again as a fish, than to accept the wonder of being human? So alone, so frightened, so wanting for what we are afraid to give tongue to.

All my fears and cares are of this world; if there is another, an honest man has nothing to fear from it.

A man is not moral because he is obedient through fear or ignorance. Morality lives in the realm of perceived obligation.

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.

A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries.

A man in the jungle at night, as someone said, may suppose a hyena's growl to be a lion's; but when he hears the lion's growl, he knows damn well it's a lion.

To the man who is afraid everything rustles.

A MAN FEARED A man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was more wise than the other.

If you take most men aside when their wives are pregnant, most men are pretty frightened and worried and faintly disgusted by the whole experience.

To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence.

Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors.

No man easily admits that he is afraid.

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, hated at tea parties, feared in shops, and loved at crises.

Wars are begun by frightened men.

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

Afraid lest he be caught up in a net of words, tripped up, bewildered and so defeated-thrown aside-a man hesitates to write down his innermost convictions.

I cannot tell what you and other men Think of this life; but, for my single self, I had as lief not be as live to be In awe of such a thing as I myself.

Pray, do not mock me. I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less; And, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind.

Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm.

Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences.

Running is never fun. Running is something that you do when there's a man chasing you with a knife.

No men stand more in fear of God than those who most deny Him.

My God, look at the size of this man! Quick! Tell the other villagers we're going back to the boats!

While the best men are guided by love, most mean are still goaded by fear.