Quotes About Fear

Man has always been half-monster, half-dreamer.

[on the Republican party] A party with a narrow vision, a party that is afraid of the future.

Friends, to me for years St. Louis represented a city of fear... humiliation... misery and terror... A city where in the eyes of the white man a Negro should know his place and had better stay in it.

I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.

A fearful man is always hearing things.

The Enlightenment has always aimed at liberating men from fear and establishing their sovereignty. Yet the fully enlightened earth radiates disaster triumphant.

Men who fear to make the sacrifice of love will have to fight

The world is getting to be such a dangerous place, a man is lucky to get out of it alive.

In every cry of every man, In every infant's cry of fear, In every voice, in every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear.

All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.

A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.

Japanese women live in fear of making the least sound in a bathroom stall. Japanese men pay no attention to the subject whatsoever.

The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward.

The life of man is but a succession of vain hopes and groundless fears.

It is praiseworthy to be brave and fearless, but sometimes it is better to be a coward. We often stand in the compound of a coward to point at the ruins where a brave man used to live.

The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.

Men fear to lose as much as they hope to gain.

I think men are afraid to say that they would love to have Michelle Obama in their bed, but they think it.

There is a sweet little horror story that is only two sentences long: The last man on Earth sat alone in a room. There was a knock at the door... Two sentences and an ellipsis of three dots.

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

My friend Kurt Maix once described this diffidence as Fear's friendly sister, the right and necessary counterweight to that courage that urges men skyward, and protects them from self-destruction.

The man's world must become a man's and a woman's world. Why are we afraid?

Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.

What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.