Quotes About Fear

The death close before me was terrible, but far more terrible than death was the dread of being misremembered after death

I fear not yet. It would be dangerous for Charles yet.

I am afraid to think of what I might have done, on requirement, in the secrecy of my terror.

Keep still, you little devil, or I'll cut your throat!

IN SUCH RISINGS of fire and risings of sea—the firm earth shaken by the rushes of an angry ocean which had now no ebb, but was always on the flow, higher and higher, to the terror and wonder of the beholders on the shore—three years of tempest were consumed.

Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend," observed the Marquis, "will keep the dogs obedient to the whip,

La represión es la única filosofía de efectos duraderos. La gran deferencia del miedo y de la esclavitud, amigo —dijo el marqués,— conservará a los perros obedientes al látigo mientras este techo —añadió mirando al techo— nos proteja del cielo.

In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong. I

O! Better to have no home in which to lay his head, than to have a home and dread to go to it, through such a cause.

took place in the capital itself every night; families were publicly cautioned not to go out of town without removing their furniture to upholsterers' warehouses for security; the highwayman in the dark was a City tradesman in the light, and, being recognised and challenged by his fellow-tradesman whom he stopped in

I am not afraid to die, Citizen Evremonde, but I have done nothing. I am not unwilling to die, if the Republic which is to do so much good to us poor, will profit by my death; but I do not know how that can be, Citizen Evremonde.

I have often thought that few people know what secrecy there is in the young under terror

The terrors that had assailed me whenever Mrs. Joe had gone near the pantry, or out of the room, were only to be equalled by the remorse with which my mind dwelt on what my hands had done.

As mariposas, e todo tipo de criaturas horríveis, sempre rondam a vela. O que é que a vela pode fazer?

I have often thought that few people know what secrecy there is in the young under terror. No matter how unreasonable the terror, so that it be terror.

Few people know what secrecy there is in the young, under terror. ... I am afraid to think of what I might have done on requirement, in the secrecy of my terror

K?sacas? do?ru oldu?unu bildi?im ?eyi yapmaya cesaret bulam?yordum; nas?l ki daha önce de yanl?? oldu?unu bildi?im ?eyden kaç?nacak cesareti gösteremeyi?im gibi.

Look at me,' said Miss Havisham. 'You are not afraid of a woman who has never seen the sun since you were born?

I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong. I

Thus fearful alike, of those within the prison and of those without; of noise and silence; light and darkness; of being released, and being left there to die; he was so tortured and tormented, that nothing man has ever done to man in the horrible caprice of power and cruelty, exceeds his self-inflicted punishment.

But far more terrible than death was the dread of being misremembered after death.

The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far, we are pursued by nothing else.

You fear the world too much," she answered gently. "All your other hopes have merged into the hope of being beyond the chance of its sordid reproach. I have seen your nobler aspirations fall off one by one, until the master passion, Gain, engrosses you. Have I not?

me, though he had business relations with me many years ago, and we are now intimate; I will say with the fair daughter to whom he is so devotedly attached, and who is so devotedly attached to him? Believe me, Miss Pross, I don't approach the topic with you, out of curiosity, but out of zealous interest." "Well! To the best of my understanding, and bad's the best, you'll tell me," said Miss Pross, softened by the tone of the apology, "he is afraid of the whole subject.