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Quotes About Fear

Too many men are afraid of being fools.
~ Henry Ford
Men will flee to caves in the rocks and to holes in the ground from dread of the LORD and the splendor of his majesty, when he rises to shake the earth.
~ Isaiah
People are scared man, they're scared of the void.
~ Joe Rogan
Coonskin caps, Yankee bats, the Hound Dog man's big start. The A-bomb fears, Annette had ears, I lusted in my heart.
~ John Fogerty
A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much
~ John Gay
The last thing a woman will consent to in a man whom she loves, or on whom she simply depends, is want of courage.
~ Joseph Conrad
Don't you want to take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone!
~ Ken Watanabe
Weapons are instruments of fear; they are not a wise man's tools. He uses them only when he has no choice.
~ Laozi
The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does.
~ Charles Bukowski
Well, you may not know this, but there's things that gnaw at a man worse than dying.
~ Charlie Waite
The man who claims he's never done anything courageous doesn't understand what courage really is.
~ Dennis Rainey
A man from hell is not afraid of hot ashes.
~ Dorothy Gilman
A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
~ Elbert Hubbard
A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.
~ Emile M. Cioran
There is no creature on earth half so terrifying as a truly just man.
~ George R. R. Martin
Of men eternally dear! happy indeed If you have breathing-space From pain: blessed all the more If death should heal you of the pain you fear!
~ Giacomo Leopardi
"I am afraid that God has sent these men to lay waste the world".
~ Gregory Palamas
In the East men know panic, but they do not know what fright is.
~ Guy de Maupassant
Thus each person by his fears gives wings to rumor, and, without any real source of apprehension, men fear what they themselves have imagined.
~ Lucan
The dreadful fear of hell is to be driven out, which disturbs the life of man and renders it miserable, overcasting all things with the blackness of darkness, and leaving no pure, unalloyed pleasure.
~ Lucretius
It is only in his head that man is heroic; in the pit of his stomach he is always a coward.
~ Mary Roberts Rinehart
A man that is down doesn't fear to fall.
~ Matthew Ashimolowo
Man reckons with immortality, and forgets to reckon with death.
~ Milan Kundera
Lies are usually caused by an undue fear of men.
~ Nachman of Breslov