Quotes About Fear

Fear is advance panic of unexpected life.

Fear is the mother of foresight: spiritual fear... temporal fear...

Fear and courage are brothers.

A coward's heart panteth in his breast...

He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

To lead is difficult when you're a follower of fear.

Where love begins, there dread thy first desire; A spark neglected makes a mighty fire.

Firefighters — your worst nightmare is just another day at the office for them.

You might be a firefighter if your kids are afraid to get into water fights with you.

I never liked riding in helicopters because there's a fair probability that the bottom part will get going around as fast as the top part.

I wants to make your flesh creep...

A person terrified with the imagination of spectres, is more reasonable than one who thinks the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless.

Probably the scariest thing about cemeteries is that music they play in your head when you drive by one.

Love, thieves, and fear, make ghosts.

Fearing to lose what you have is not the same as appreciation. You have to move a step beyond that.

Danger, long travel, want or woe, Soon change the form that best we know— For deadly fear can time outgo, And blanch at once the hair.

But hatred is best combined with Fear. Cowardice, alone of all the vices, is purely painful — horrible to anticipate, horrible to feel, horrible to remember; Hatred has its pleasures. It is therefore often the compensation by which a frightened man reimburses himself for the miseries of Fear. The more he fears, the more he will hate.

Hate is a scarecrow That frightens all singing birds From the fields of life.

Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in the thing seen or believed. Here is a great error, for we never see what we are afraid of.

The plague of mankind is the fear and rejection of diversity: monotheism, monarchy, monogamy — and, in our age, monomedicine. The belief that there is only one right way to live — only one right way to regulate religious, political, sexual, medical affairs — is the root cause of the greatest threat to man: members of his own species bent on a quest for salvation, security, or sanity

It was bewildering. He was sprawling through solidity. And ever the light grew brighter. Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.

We, helpless infants in arms or creeping quadruped-like on the floor, dreamed our dreams of air flight. Yes; and we endured the torment and torture of nightmare fears of dim and monstrous things. We newborn infants, without experience, were born with fear, with memory of fear; and memory is experience.

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