Quotes About Fear

Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.

No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough.

The mob gets out of hand, runs wild, worse than raging fire, while the man who stands apart is called a coward.

Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.

There are two things which Man cannot look at directly without flinching: the sun and death.

Very few people are acquainted with death. They undergo it, commonly, not so much out of resolution as custom and insensitivity; and most men die because they cannot help it.

Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man.

Men always fear things which move by themselves.

Men are terrified of their sexuality. They're all afraid of impotence.

Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her

To die, to be really dead, that must be glorious. There are far worse things awaiting man than death.

Man Swims in Shark Infested Waters, Forgets He's Shark Food.

Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?

The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.

There are more men threatned then stricken. [There are more men threatened than stricken.]

Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.

Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.

A frightened man is a beaten man.

Men almost universally have acknowledged providence, but that fact has had no force to destroy natural aversions and fears in the presence of events.

In times of panic man seems to exchange his soul for a tail.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

It is very foolish of a man to be frightened of a skeleton, for Nature has put an insurmountable obstacle against running away from it.

An excuse is a polite rejection. Men are not afraid of 'ruining the friendship.

The man grinned back at me with that perfect sincerity we fear and call simple-minded.