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Quotes About Fear

As for myself, there are two things I dread, - death and marriage. I must die, but I need not marry. I have sworn I will never be taken alive.
~ Molly Elliot Seawell
I haven't looked at marriage in the conventional sense, as far as settling down. I look at it as putting faith in another person, which has always been hard for me to do.
~ Marilyn Manson
Marriage is a big word for all guys," Shane said. "You know that. It's kind of an allergy. We get itchy and sweaty just trying to spell it, much less do it.
~ Rachel Caine
Our comparative fidelity was fear of defeat at the hands of another partner.
~ Max Frisch
My girlfriend wants to get married. I tell you - I hope she meets somebody nice.
~ Adam Ferrara
If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage.
~ William Shakespeare
Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.
~ Mary Baker Eddy
A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
People who feel safer with a gun than with guaranteed medical insurance don't yet have a fully adult concept of scary.
~ William Gibson
I become faint and nauseous during even very minor medical procedures, such as making an appointment by phone.
~ Dave Barry
Shut your eyes to the medical columns of the newspapers, and you will save yourself many forebodings and symptoms.
~ Samuel Hopkins Adams
Your blessings lay beyond your fear.
~ Shannon L. Alder
If you take men and lock them in a house for five years and tell them to come up with two children and they fail to do that, then we will chop off their heads.
~ Robert Mugabe
A real man is one who fears the death of his heart, not of his body.
~ Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
An unarmed man can only flee from evil, and evil is not overcome by fleeing from it.
~ Jeff Cooper
Almost every natural man that hears of hell, flatters himself that he shall escape it.
~ Jonathan Edwards
I'm every woman's dream and every man's nightmare.
~ Ric Flair
It takes a brave man to be a coward in the Red Army.
~ Joseph Stalin
All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.
~ John Wayne
Most men with nothing would rather protect the possibility of becoming rich than face the reality of being poor.
~ John Dickinson
Honey, we all got to go sometime, reason or no reason. Dying's as natural as living. The man who's too afraid to die is too afraid to live.
~ Clark Gable
The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.
~ Thomas Hobbes
Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Fear is the destructive energy in man. It withers the mind, it distorts thought, it leads to all kinds of extraordinarily clever and subtle theories, absurd superstitions, dogmas, and beliefs.
~ Jiddu Krishnamurti