Quotes About Fear

What made the war inevitable was the growth of Athenian power and the fear which this caused in Sparta.

Wars are begun by frightened men. They fear war, but more than that, they fear what will happen if they don't start one or take equivalent action, I suppose.

Living in war is a co- existence with death.

When it is necessary they can be prodded into frenzies of fear and hatred, but when left to themselves they are capable of forgetting for long periods that the war is happening.

It was harder for the ones who were waiting, Annemarie knew. Less danger, perhaps, but more fear.

How could you have a war on terrorism when war is terrorism?

There are no atheists in the foxhole.

Fear breeds a desire for simplicity. Good and evil. Right and wrong. Chains of command.

It is well that war is so terrible, or we should grow too fond of it.

I'll pretend, I tell myself. Pretending is safer than believing.

You gotta admit, it's a messed-up world when going to war is safer than staying home.

Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear—love did.

* Pindar, a Thebian Greek wrote (circa 350 B.C.E.) War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach.

We are in the hands of men whose power and wealth have separated them from the reality of daily life and from the imagination. We are right to be afraid.

A new age is approaching, and its advent might make us pray to go back to the days of the trenches. Once the Worldwaker goes off, we will never be able to sleep again.

The soldier stared at Ingrid. His silence was elastic, slowly curling a rope around her neck.

You cannot intimidate people with real bullets, but you can intimidate them with fake gun.

Courage is the counterpoint of fear. Courage appears when in war or business, one is indeed scared.

Peace is not the absence of war but the absence of fear.

Peace is not the absence of war—peace is the absence of fear.

Danger has a bracing effect.

You haven't lived a full life until you have been in a very tough situation when you thought you were going to die. War does that to you.

When fear meets fear nothing good ever happens.

When fear meets fear nothing good every happens.