Quotes About Fear

A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing.

It is not good to wake a sleeping lion.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

Man's loneliness is but his fear of life.

A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.

Tranquillizers do not change our environment, nor do they change our personalities. They merely reduce our responsiveness to stimuli. They dull the keen edge of the angers, fears, or anxiety with which we might otherwise react to the problems of living. Once the response has been dulled, the irritating surface noise of living muted or eliminated, the spark and brilliance are also gone.

The mercy of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting upon them that fear Him.

The dreadful dead of dark midnight.

The thing we have to fear in this country, to my way of thinking, is the influence of the organized minorities, because somehow or other the great majority does not seem to organize. They seem to feel that they are going to be effective because of their own strength, but they give no expression of it.

Always in a moment of extreme danger things can be done which had previously been thought impossible.

Men's actions depend to a great extent upon fear. We do things either because we enjoy doing them or because we are afraid not to do them.

The passion to get ahead is sometimes born of the fear lest we be left behind.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

Fear, desire, hope still push us on toward the future.

Necessity makes even the timid brave.

The night is dark, and I am far from home.

Making night hideous.

He that has cut the claws of the lion will not feel quite secure until he has also drawn his teeth.

I went for years not finishing anything. Because, of course, when you finish something you can be judged.... I had poems which were rewritten so many times I suspect it was just a way of avoiding sending them out.

What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

Too slow for those who wait, Too swift for those who fear, Too long for those who grieve, Too short for those who rejoice. But for those who love, time is not.

The number-one fear in life is public speaking, and the number-two fear is death. This means that if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than giving the eulogy.

As one skeleton said to the other - if I had any guts I'd get the heck out of here.