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Quotes About Fear

The face was no longer bone, but animal - the face of a white wolf. "I forbid you nothing. Nothing, " uttered the awful face. "You may go anywhere - you may open any door. But, little bird, remember that you must be prepared to accept whatever you find." The long jaws spread in a smile filled with teeth.
~ Peter Straub
Confidence comes not from always being right but from not fearing to be wrong.
~ Peter T. McIntyre
Fear binds people together in a way that cannot be achieved by other means. Those who would convert the people back to the old ways need fear, need something that will drive
~ Peter Tremayne
Ich hatte Angst in ein Gasthaus zu gehen wenn Bauern drinnensaßen. Ich dachte mir daß sie nichts Gutes über mich denken. Ich überwand diese Angst mit der Vorstellung etwas Besonderes zu sein. Das Besondere bestand in meinem Leid. Ich war erfüllt von dem Maß meiner Leiden. Ich habe Angst diese Leiden aufzugeben weil ich nicht weiß was dann von mir übrigbleibt.
~ Peter Turrini
Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.
~ Peter Ustinov
The lack of a personal core is at the base of such men, the inability to support doubt in any form, the fear of facing themselves...
~ Peter Ustinov
Unfortunately, a superabundance of dreams is paid for by a growing potential for nightmares
~ Peter Ustinov
Negative peace answers often included references to theft and criminality.
~ Peter Uvin
Primitive humans developed a neurosis, an irrational or imaginary fear, one not caused by an actual threat: necrophobia—a fear of the dead.
~ Peter Vronsky
When clutter is sentimental, you need to figure out two things: first, how to separate the memory from the item, and second, how to preserve the memory in a way that honors and respects it. This process takes the power away from the object in a way that is really liberating and enables you to live your life without the sense of fear and worry of future loss.
~ Peter Walsh
You can't kill the thing under the bed. You can only keep it outside the covers.
~ Peter Watts
Innately affectionate, and innately afraid of unreturned affection, and indomitably unwilling to let any of that stop her.
~ Peter Watts
Everyone's running from something.
~ Peter Watts
PREDATORS RUN FOR THEIR DINNER. PREY RUN FOR THEIR LIVES. —OLD ECOLOGIST'S PROVERB
~ Peter Watts
The Colonel grunted. "In my experience, those things don't have to try to scare the shit out of anyone. If she wanted you dead or broken, you would be. Vampires have—idiomatic speech patterns. You may have simply misunderstood her." "She called me a cold cut.
~ Peter Watts
You can't kill the thing under the bed. You can only keep it outside the covers.
~ Peter Watts
What do you do when you've finally resigned yourself to your own inevitable extermination, and someone offers you a way out? Any hope in a place like this almost has to be false; all it can do is shake your determination, tempt you with thoughts of after this is over when you should just be thinking about getting the job done now. Hope is distraction, hope is fear undercutting resolve, because hope gives you back that most terrible of battlefield commodities: something to lose.
~ Peter Watts
Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force on all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives.
~ Peter Watts
LEADERS ARE VISIONARIES WITH A POORLY DEVELOPED SENSE OF FEAR AND NO CONCEPT OF THE ODDS AGAINST THEM.
~ Peter Watts
Not even the most heavily-armed police state can exert brute force to all of its citizens all of the time. Meme management is so much subtler; the rose-tinted refraction of perceived reality, the contagious fear of threatening alternatives.
~ Peter Watts
I was so afraid to even read a paper in front of my classmates. It is very funny because at that point my teachers would never have believed that I could speak in front of an audience of over 2 000 people.
~ Petra Nemcova
Neither exhortations to virtue nor the argument of approaching death should divert us from literature; for in a good mind it excites the love of virtue, and dissipates, or at least diminishes, the fear of death.
~ Petrarch
Qué quiere que le diga? Gente tranquila, más pobre que las ratas. Aunque, tal como va el mundo, llamamos tranquilos a los que tienen miedo.
~ Petros Markaris
Ist?rab?n derinlerine indikçe sevincimizi kaybetmek korkusu kalmad??? için, yeni bir sevinç ba?l?yor: Ist?rab?n ilac? ?st?rapt?r. ?kisinin has?l-? zarb?: Sevinç.
~ Peyami Safa