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Quotes About Fear

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.
~ Plato
The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.
~ Rudyard Kipling
Those who love to be feared fear to be loved, and they themselves are more afraid than anyone, for whereas other men fear only them, they fear everyone.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
The wise man seeks death all his life, and for this reason death is not terrifying to him.
~ Socrates
No tyrant need fear till men begin to feel confident in each other.
~ Aristotle
A man who fears nothing is a man who loves nothing; and if you love nothing, what joy is there in your life?
~ Sean Connery
People are more afraid of the laws of Man than of God, because their punishment seems to be nearest.
~ William Penn
All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.
~ James Thurber
Guilt is to danger, what fire is to gunpowder; a man need not fear to walk among many barrels of powder, if he have no fire about him.
~ John Flavel
What the hell kind of man decides to dress up as a bat and run around the city? There's got to be something a little bit loose in there.
~ Christian Bale
A man with a weak Masculine is especially prone to despise and fear these qualities and may attempt to suppress the more destructive elements of the Feminine force in his partner.
~ David Deida
The irony of man's condition is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of death and annihilation; but it is life itself which awakens it, and so we must shrink from being fully alive.
~ Ernest Becker
We ought to fear a man who hates himself, for we are at risk of becoming victims of his anger and revenge. Let us then try to lure him into self-love.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
The courageous man is the man who forces himself, in spite of his fear, to carry on.
~ George S. Patton
Anguish of suspense made men even desire the arrival of enemies.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Men who have not known the horror of death are not likely to be awed by it.
~ Lu Xun
Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
When men don't fear god, they give themselves to evil
~ Ray Comfort
And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.
~ A. E. Housman
People either buy nuclear power, nuclear reactors from outside, and don't train their own men, or they just don't go into nuclear power at all, they are so afraid of it.
~ Abdus Salam
The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward.
~ Aristotle
You can't talk to a man, with a shotgun in his hand.
~ Carole King
Man's greatest weakness is his love for life.
~ Moliere