Quotes About Fear

And me I'm in the bathroom crying out my eyelids because it's hard to be a man when you're scared, just like a little kid.

What man is such a coward he would not rather fall once than remain forever tottering?

Every man's death is standing in for every other. And since death comes to all there is no way to abate the fear of it except to love the man who stands for us.

Fear of an enemy can often blind men to other hazards, not least the shape which they themselves make in the world.

A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.

Every unpunished murder takes away something from the security of every man's life

Lots of small business men have been contacting me to say they wish they had the nerve to say what I said.

Man, who thinks he knows everything. But what does man know...Man cares only for himself, in his fear and hate.

The nature of a coward is to avoid death. If such a man courts peril there can be only two reasons. Either he is not a coward at all or there is no danger.

Boldness in battle is nothing out of the way... but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man.

Every man in Ingary is scared stiff of her. You ought to know how that feels, Sophie dear.

The Monster's crimes were so horrific that a mere man could not possibly have committed them. Satan, in the end, had to be invoked.

A man´s level of dignity must always be above his level of fear.

Man has much more to fear from the passions of his fellow-creatures, than from the convulsions of the elements.

Man makes a death which Nature never made. And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.

Most men are less afraid of ghosts than of facts.

Don't call the man a claustrophobe just because small spaces scare him. Right.

When men are scared of a woman, they always accuse her of being mannish.

I went to Shea Stadium and used the men's room. Terrifying. There was this little kid looking at me through the crack [in the stall]. and I was like, "If you tell anyone what you've seen..."

Men are so thoughtless, nay, so mad, that some, through fear of death, force themselves to die.

The guilty man may escape, but he cannot be sure of doing so.

To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

But sometimes living in denial was the only way to keep a man from going on a killing spree.

Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.