Quotes About Fear

Goodness knows what hallucinations of danger and siege people are subject to, if they live anywhere too beautiful and too sequestered.

Having eyes, but not seeing beauty; having ears, but not hearing music; having minds, but not perceiving truth…These are the things to fear…

Au lieu d'être immobile comme il convient à un pied embaumé depuis quatre mille ans, il s'agitait, se contractait et sautillait sur les papiers comme une grenouille effarée.

Oh, Graciosa, I have never been able to think about it without terror, loving somebody who is unworthy of my love. To bare my soul to impure eyes, and allow someone to defile the sanctuary of my heart. For though you may make a complete break some silt will always remains, and the stream never regains the original clarity.

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown. These facts few psychologists will dispute, and their admitted truth must establish for all time the genuineness and dignity of the weirdly horrible tale as a literary form.

yet I think Our Lord made use of it to show me that a soul in the state of grace has nothing to fear from the devil, who is a coward, and will even fly from the gaze of a little child.

The rational mind finds yielding to fear an irresistible temptation; but by indulging in this temptation, the mind slays itself.

IF YOU POSTPONE TAKING ACTION BECAUSE YOU FEAR FAILURE, OR BECAUSE OF FEELING INADEQUATE, YOU HAVE ALREADY FAILED.

Fear can only be prevalent in the absence of sufficient sobriety. In the full light of sobriety fear evaporates like mist before the sun.

Bravery is the ability to control your fear"

Courage is the ability to control your fear

Physical reality is one of the biggest horror movies of all, and you know how we love horror movies.

kill trhe beast before it kills you

Fear ye God that ye may not identify yourselves with aught but the truth, inasmuch as ye have been exalted in the Bayn for being recognized as the bearers of the name of Him Who is the eternal Truth.

A man eminent in learning has not even a little virtue if he fears to practise it. What precious things can be shown to a blind man when he holds a lamp in his hand?

My deepest fear is not that we are incompatible, My deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure of fire and fuel. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. You're playing big will not serve the world, me being prideful did not serve me. KB

The first rule of truly living - do the thing you are most afraid of.

Courage isn't the absence of fear, it's the choice that something else is greater than that fear.

If fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

The fear to love reaches sometimes the depth of a panic, resembles sometimes the fear to die.

In our civilization men are afraid they will not be men enough, and women are afraid they might be considered only women.

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

Of the world as it exists, it is not possible to be enough afraid.

Enlightenment, understood in the widest sense as the advance of thought, has always aimed at liberating human beings from fear and installing them as masters. Yet the wholly enlightened earth is radiant with triumphant calamity.