Quotes About Fear

Horror is not really horror unless it's your horror—that which you have known personally.

Children have made me nervous ever since I stopped being one of them.

Whatever's there to feel, feel it – the riddance, the relief, the fright and freedom, the fear of forgetting, the dull ache of your own mortality. Get with someone you can trust with tears, with anger, and wonderment and utter silence. Get that part done – the sooner the better. The only way around these things is through them.

The problem is that we've got a sense of humor and (Republicans have) got guns. Will we die laughing?

War is only a cowardly escape from the problems of peace.

Yes, they are carnal, both of them, love and death, and therein lies their terror and their great magic!

With agoraphobia you feel safe only when you are in certain environments. Your anxiety increases every time your 'safe place' is unavailable, blocked, or becomes more distant.

The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering the more you suffer because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt.

The more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers most.

Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.

I'm scared of people leaving unexpectedly. It's cos of the way I died.

Horace's mother had warned him about white people, that he should never speak to them unless they spoke first, and that if he did, he needed to say "sir" and "ma'am" and not be rude but to get away as quickly as he could beforethey did something terrible. She had refused to say what it was people like this did that was so awful. Horace figured they ate colored people, or at least colored children.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture.

The more men have to lose, the less willing are they to venture. The rich are in general slaves to fear, and submit to courtly power with the trembling duplicity of a Spaniel.

Oppression is often the consequence, but seldom or never the means of riches; and though avarice will preserve a man from being necessitously poor, it generally makes him too timorous to be wealthy.

the greatest forces that can be brought into the field of revolutions, are reason and common interest. Where these can have the opportunity of acting, opposition dies with fear, or crumbles away by conviction.

for in proportion as the enemy despair of conquest, they will be trying the arts of seduction and the force of fear by all the mischiefs which they can inflict. But in war we may be certain of these two things, viz. that cruelty in an enemy, and motions made with more than usual parade, are always signs of weakness. he that can conquer, finds his mind too free and pleasant to be brutish; and he that intends to conquer, never makes too much show of his strength.

The rich are in general slaves to fear, and submit to courtly power with the trembling duplicity of a spaniel.

HOW CAME THE KING BY A POWER WHICH THE PEOPLE ARE AFRAID TO TRUST, AND ALWAYS OBLIGED TO CHECK? Such a power could not be the gift of a wise people, neither can any power, WHICH NEEDS CHECKING, be from God;

though he may be cruel, never can be brave. But

Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing.

A screaming comes across the sky.

The general public has long been divided into two parts; those who think that science can do anything and those who are afraid it will.