Quotes About Fear

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

The coward sneaks to death the brave live on.

Humans are frail in our eyes today, and we secretly wonder whether those with poise and stiff upper lips are merely ticking time bombs. The freak-out allows us to feel we're not alone in our inner panic.

It's very hard, for most of us to tolerate being loved.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear - and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

There are times when you will fear your own shadow during night; never let your trust ruin you into the dark- shibin varghese

Nothing is so irretrievably lost to a society as the sense of fear it felt about a grave danger that was subsequently coped with.

There is always some limit which the individual accepts. He identifies this limit with himself. Horror seizes him at the thought that this limit may cease to be. But we are wrong to take this limit and the individual's acceptance of it seriously. The limit is only there to be overreached. Fear and horror are not the real and final reaction; on the contrary, they are a temptation to overstep the bounds.

Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror

Rather than the obsession with impurity, you'd do better to fear the nostalgia for purity.

Appearances are nothing.... And first of all they should not be feared, they are only dangerous to the weak.

It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.

Too many priests have held their tongues, and I wish it had only been from pity. But we're cowards.

Suicide only really frightens those who are never tempted by it and never will be, for its darkness only welcomes those who are predestined to it.

Void fascinates those who daren't look into it. They throw themselves in, for fear of falling.

A tudatlanság minden baj legkiválóbb ellenszere (…), a legtökéletesebb bolondok gy?zik le a legkönnyebben a problémákat, ?ket ugyanis nem gyötrik gondok, nem kínozza félelem és szorongás, mint a felvilágosult embereket.

Mevr. Cadzand feared for her son who, with his responsive nature, as sensitive as a hothouse plant, was more exposed. Fortunately religion is a means of protection, of diverting energies into other channels. Hans's mother was glad that they had cultivated his piety at the college and that she herself, with altars in the month of Mary, novenas, candles lit, rosaries recited and pilgrimages made, had further developed this faith, which keeps men safe through the fear of Hell.

He mostly preached in the evening, when the college church was already shrouded in shadow. And he chose subjects that filled the imagination with salutary fear—sin, Hell, death—painting pictures that were sometimes cajoling, more often harrowing, evoking the effects of the fire on the damned. The little group of pupils listened, apprehensive, sometimes terrified, a distraught flock whose black shepherd is gesticulating towards distant flames.