Quotes About Fear

I fear oblivion. I fear it like the proverbial blind man who's afraid of the dark.

Be cautious, but not too cautious; do not be too much afraid of making a mistake; a man who never makes a mistake will make nothing.

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he shouldn't.

Men really do need sea-monsters in their personal oceans

All men would be cowards if they could.

The man who gets drunk in peacetime is a coward. The man who gets drunk in wartime goes on being a coward.

There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.

And as to being in a fright, Allow me to remark That Ghosts have just as good a right In every way, to fear the light, As Men to fear the dark.

Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling to live, and yet they do not know how to die.

A pretty little collection of weaknesses and a terror of spiders are our indispensable stock-in-trade with the men...

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

So easy are men to be drawn to believe any thing, from such men as have gotten credit with them; and can with gentleness and dexterity take hold of their fear and ignorance.

It's the same with men as with horses and dogs, nothing wants to die.

Unity of man has always been impossible in a world of fear and discontent where every man fears every other man as an enemy.

I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.

O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men?

A few yes men may be born, but mostly they are made. Fear is a great breeder of them.

Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it.

I'm terrified of men these days. If someone asked me out now, I don't know what I'd say, how I'd react. But I couldn't go through with it, not at all. I suppose I've been terrified of them all along.

Women, somehow, have the same fear of witty men as of fireworks.

Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed.

Fear and Guilt are the only enemies of man.

The reason men don't know the law of life is because they're afraid to look Eternity in the face.

Only grown-up men are scared of women.