Quotes About Fear

Secret #24 While some people run fast toward Gold Medals, many others run even faster from German Shepherds.

I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear.

Security is the mother of danger and the grandmother of destruction.

Despair gives courage to a coward.

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

Better hazard once than always be in fear.

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

He that fears your presence will hate you absence.

He that will not sail till all dangers are over must never put to sea.

Many would be cowards if they had courage enough.

Still as they run they look behind,They hear a voice in every wind,And snatch a fearful joy.

He looked at me intently, from what seemed behind the veil of a grave experience. Then slowly and prophetically, he said the scariest thing I'd ever heard: "Because the answer to a heartfelt question, Jack, will always break your heart.

It's not that we grow old, I thought, but that we grow old in decline and discomfort, and these hardships are made worse by the awareness that nothing will improve. No coming days will dawn brighter than the last that dawned, and this sorrow is further deepened by a fear of death…

Fear is the mother of foresight.

That night your great guns, unawares,Shook all our coffins as we lay,And broke the chancel window-squares,We thought it was the Judgment Day.

She was of the stuff of which great men's mothers are made. She was indispensable to high generation, feared at tea-parties, hated in shops, and loved at crises.

Tell me now, Angel, do you think we shall meet again after we are dead? I want to know. He kissed her to avoid a reply at such a time. "O, Angel--I fear that means no!" said she, with a suppressed sob. "And I wanted so to see you again-- so much, so much! What--not even you and I, Angel, who love each other so well?

It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.

Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.

Opinion of ghosts, ignorance of second causes, devotion to what men fear, and talking of things casual for prognostics, consisteth the natural seeds of religion

Fear and I were born twins together.

The passion to be reckoned upon, is fear.