Quotes About Fear

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

Except a man fear the Lord, he is unable to renounce sin.

It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man.

What each man feared would happen to himself, did not trouble him when he saw that it would ruin another.

Men love everything but righteousness and fear everything but God.

There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming.

How can you frighten a man whose hunger is not only in his own cramped stomach but in the wretched bellies of his children? You can't scare him--he has known a fear beyond every other.

And how do I know that the hate of death is not like a man who has lost his home when young and does not know where his home is to return to?

To the self-righteous, being judged according to deeds does not seem too alarming but to the man who knows himself the thought is terrifying.

Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous.

Rage or fear... It oscillates. Rage I need to motivate me to try things that I can't ordinarily do - as I'm a lazy man. Fear - to keep pushing harder so we don't lose what we've accomplished.

Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it. [Lat., Dulcis inexpertis cultura potentis amici; Expertus metuit.]

To have a great man for an intimate friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

To make Michael Myers frightening, I had him walk like a man, not a monster.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

The only failure one man should fear, is the failure to do his best.

We do not know where death awaits us: so let us wait for it everywhere. To practice death is to practice freedom. A man who has learned how to die has unlearned how to be a slave.

Oh my brethren, Bold hearted men are always called mean-spirited by cowards!

There is nothing terrible in life for the man who realizes there is nothing terrible in death.

I cannot find it in me to fear a man who took ten years a learning of his alphabet.

Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold.

I am not going to become crazy in the ring, because I am already crazy. And I am not going to die in the ring. I am going to die in bed as an old man.

Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!