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Quotes About Fear

The machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates according to the pure logic of probability. For this reason I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man.
~ Max Frisch
A man without courage is a boat in a frozen lake! Get rid of your fears!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I hyperventilate opening a box of chocolates. I'm the most nervous guy in the world, a frightened little man on red alert from when I wake until I go to sleep. I was born with fear.
~ Ozzy Osbourne
As long as a man does not sin, he is feared. As soon as he sins, he himself is in fear.
~ Rabbi Ishmael
Fear is cruel and mean. The political reigns of terror have been reigns of madness and malignity,--a total perversion of opinion;society is upside down, and its best men are thought too bad to live.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never frighten a little man. He'll kill you.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise.
~ Jack London
Angels worship God with purity and love; men, with fear and trembling.
~ James Ellis
The man who is in real danger is the man who thinks he is perfectly safe.
~ James M. Barrie
Man is an animal whose dreams come true and kill him.
~ James Tiptree Jr.
It's hard to stay calm when you're terrified, helpless, alone, at the mercy of men with no mercy at all.
~ Joe Abercrombie
I know it's hard for you to trust me. If I ever find the man who did this to you, who made you so frightened, I'll kill him with my bare hands. But you can trust me.
~ Juliet Marillier
Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.
~ Juvenal
In some ways I've lived my life like a man, made my own decisions, etc. I've been as terrified as the next person, but you've got to keep going.
~ Katharine Hepburn
Threats alone, are the weapons of the threatened man.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.
~ Seneca the Younger
Such is the blindness, nay the insanity of mankind, that some men are driven to death by the fear of it.
~ Seneca the Younger
Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so afraid of the tommyknocker man.
~ Stephen King
A man who will not get scared on some occasions, lacks good sense.
~ E. W. Howe
The reason some men fear older women is they fear their own mortality.
~ Frances Lear
Simplicity of manner is the last attainment. Men are very long afraid of being natural, from the dread of being taken for ordinary.
~ Francis Jeffrey, Lord Jeffrey
If a man is really into you, nothing will stop him from being with you - including a fear of intimacy.
~ Greg Behrendt
The only monsters I have ever known were men.
~ Jodi Picoult, The Storyteller
Hardly anything else reveals so well the fear and uncertainty among men as the length to which they will go to hide their true selves from each other and even from their own eyes.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer