Quotes About Fear

Imagine, a September 11 with weapons of mass destruction. It's not 3,000. It's tens of thousands of innocent men, women and children.

The terror of the atom age is not the violence of the new power but the speed of man's adjustment to it, the speed of his acceptance.

Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.

Nearly every man is a coward, if confronted by the proper terror.

What terrible fear causes Man to address the Void as Thou?

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.

I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist.

If man understood that "what I create has nothing to do with what anybody else is creating" then he wouldn't be so afraid of what others are doing.

A man who has been in danger, When he comes out of it forgets his fears, And sometimes he forgets his promises.

If we love God, do His will, and fear His judgment more than men's, we will have self-esteem.

There is torture of mind as well as body; the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there comes a point where this Court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves.

That all men would be cowards if they dare, Some men we know have courage to declare.

There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better.

The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.

And pray that he is the man I think he is, he finished silently, and not the man I fear he has become.

All men are frightened. The more intelligent they are, the more they are frightened.

The man at the center [Donald Trump], soon to be the world's most powerful, now shoulders the hopes and dreams of millions of Americans, the fear and anxiety of millions more.

A sober man may become a drunkard through being a coward. A brave man may become a coward through being a drunkard.

Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

Men prefer the false due to habit, passion, will. Preference for truth is rare. Men are ruled by their fear of truth.

What governs men is the fear of truth.