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Quotes About Fear

A man who will risk nothing for love is not a man
~ Patricia Briggs
And otherwise normal men become monsters, too.
~ Patrick Ness
A monster, I think, remembering what Ben told me once. War makes Monsters of Men.
~ Patrick Ness
I know a man He came from my home town He wore his passion for his woman Like a thorny crown He said "Dolores I live in fear My love for you's so overpowering I'm afraid that I will disappear
~ Paul Simon
Being afraid of having an endoscopy (if you're a man) and giving birth (if you're a woman).
~ Paulo Coelho
The good needs fear no law, It is his safety and the bad man's awe.
~ Philip Massinger
Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men.
~ Plato
Man is not man, but a wolf to those he does not know.
~ Plautus
Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue.
~ Oscar Wilde
There is nothing ugly about death; but man, out of his fear, has made even the word, death ugly and unutterable. People don't like to talk about it. They won't even listen to the word death.
~ Rajneesh
Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight or flight thing.
~ Rashida Jones
I had a very real fear of spiders until one bit me. I got bitten by a redback spider in Australia and I've never been frightened of them since. Maybe I've turned into Spider-man.
~ Ray Winstone
More men have been defeated by reports than all the steel of all the swords in history.
~ Raymond E. Feist
Back when I was dating, the dreaded C word was Commitment. As soon as most men found out I had a child, they ran. If I ever got close enough to say the words, 'I love you,' they ran faster.
~ Regina Brett
To hell with monsters and to hell with men. There is no difference to me.
~ Rick Yancey
It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk.
~ Robert E. Howard
Necessity makes dastards valiant men.
~ Robert Herrick
Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Men talk of freedom! How many are free to think? Free from fear, from perturbation, from prejudice? Nine hundred and ninety-nine in a thousand are perfect slaves.
~ Henry David Thoreau
In the religion of all nations a purity is hinted at, which, I fear, men never attain to.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The brave man braves nothing, nor knows he of his bravery.
~ Henry David Thoreau
But, commonly, men are as much afraid of love as of hate.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Look to the end; and resolve to make the service of Christ the first object in what remains of life, without indifference to the opinion of your fellow men, but also without fear of it.
~ Henry Parry Liddon
A man that is afraid is never a man.
~ Henry Ward Beecher