Quotes About Fear

[In a state of nature] No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

If men are naturally in a state of war, why do they always carry arms and why do they have keys to lock their doors?

Now I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark

There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.

And there is even a happinessThat makes the heart afraid.

He who has conquered his own coward spirit has conquered the whole outward world;

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

Cowards, 'tis said, in certain situations, Derive a sort of courage from despair, And then perform, from downright desperation, Much more than many a bolder man would dare.

Lost in his own horrific contemplations... When at the bed's foot, close beside the post, He verily believed he saw—a Ghost!... From every pore distill'd a clammy dew, Quaked every limbe—the candle, too... The room was fill'd with a sulphureous smell, But where that came from Mason could not tell.

This intense desire to control is an attempt to maintain dignity in spite of low self-regard. Think about it. In addition to keeping everything safe, the exercise of power temporarily boosts angry men's low self-esteem. [...] Like many kings and other powerful people, however, angry men will soon doubt the affection of those they control. They will always wonder if they are "really" loved by family members, or if their family is just acting that way out of fear.

But this momentous question [the Missouri Compromise], like a firebell in the night awakened and filled me with terror. I considered it the knell of the Union.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just that his justice cannot sleep forever.

When the people fear the government there is tyranny, when the government fears the people there is liberty.

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

But would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm, on the theoretic and visionary fear that this government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself?

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.

Every man naturally desires knowledge; but what good is knowledge without fear of God? Indeed a humble rustic who serves God is better than a proud intellectual who neglects his soul to study the course of the stars.He who knows himself well becomes mean in his own eyes and is not happy when praised by men.

The taste one gets of death in dreams I find more penetrating and atmospheric than the ordinary fear one might suffer while awake.

Fear shall force what friendship cannot win.