Quotes About Fear

Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.

Let's be honest: For a lot of well-meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young, black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear.

To the inexperienced it is a pleasant thing to court the favour of the great; an experienced man fears it.

I have known men of valor cowards to their wives.

For a while they stood there, like men on the edge of a sleep where nightmare lurks, holding it off, though they know that they can only come to morning through the shadows.

If a man is terrified, it's up to me to dispel that terror.

You really are a scary man,no really! If I had boots I would be quaking in them.

I am afraid of him, of all men who are successful in love.

No man can be a conservative unless he has something to lose.

I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.

As a man grows older it is harder and harder to frighten him.

He's clean," Ritchie announced. Chance wrinkled his nose with mild distaste. "Can't say the same about you. Really, man, soap is nothing to fear.

Could a dream kill a man? Could it strangle him where he sat sleeping?

It would require a singularly stupid man to go hang around in narrow tunnels and cramped spaces alongside a threat like that. "And I, Harry Dresden, am that man," I stated.

He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them.

Men become utilitarian out of fear of the alternative the chaos of tangled or tepid desires, of rootlessness and boredom.

You got to hidey-hide, you got to jump and run again. You got to hide-hidey-hide, the old man is down the road.

I have to tell you man, that my stalker meter is kind of registering in the red zone right now.

Feare may force a man to cast beyond the moone.

So long as there is any subject which men may not freely discuss, they are timid upon all subjects.

Fear; if allowed free rein, would reduce all of us to trembling shadows of men, for whom only death could bring release

Men don't get knocked out, or I mean they can fight back against big things. What kills them is erosion; they get nudged into failure. They get slowly scared.[...]It's slow. It rots out your guts.

...men in fear and hunger destroy their stomachs in the fight to secure certain food, where men hungering for love destroy everything lovable about them.

I think bullfights are for men who aren't very brave and wish they were.