Quotes About Fear

I believe you mean it now, but in the moment, when you're deciding what to tell me and what not to tell, I think you'll hold back the things I most want to know, if you're afraid that knowing will cause me harm.

Yes, I'm paranoid and xenophobic. That's how I got this job. Cultivate those virtues and you too, might rise to my lofty station.

Valentine could persuade other people to her point of view- she could convince them that they wanted what she wanted them to want. Peter, on the other hand, could only make them fear what he wanted them to fear.

It's what I'm most afraid of. That I really am a monster. I don't want to be a killer but I just can't help it.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all.

The aim of life is self-development. To realise one's nature perfectly-that is what each of us is here for. People are afraid of themselves, nowadays. They have forgotten the highest of all duties, the duty that one owes to one's self. Of course they are charitable. They feed the hungry, and clothe the beggar. But their own souls starve, and are naked.

A burnt child loves the fire.

I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You should say the first romance of your life. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. That is the one use of the idle classes of a country. Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning.

but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself

He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free.

struck him early on that people were afraid of the enemy because they were terrified that their lives might get diluted, that they might lose themselves in the tangle of knowing each other.

It was, he knew, their isolation that had made them so vocal. They thrived in the grandeur of their rage. Yet, underneath their masks they were riddled with self doubt. He could sense the fear behind the clenched jaw.

He glanced up in my direction and I froze. Quickly I turned away. There are rocks deep enough in this earth that no matter what the rupture, they will never see the surface. There is, I think, a fear of love. There is a fear of love.

It struck him early on that people were afraid of the enemy because they were terrified that their lives might get diluted, that they might lose themselves in the tangle of knowing each other.

A lion chased me up a tree, and I greatly enjoyed the view from the top.

If you look into your own heart, and you find nothing wrong there, what is there to worry about? What is there to fear?

Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it

Insecurity is worse than poverty.

While they have not got their aims, their anxiety is how to get them. When they have got them, their anxiety is lest they should lose them.

The Master said, Study as though you could never catch up, [and if you did,] you would still be fearful of losing it.

The Master replied, "The person who would wrestle a tiger bare-handed or march across the Yellow River,106 and who would go to his death without regret—this person I would not take along. It would have to be someone who would approach any situation with trepidation, and who would be fond of planning with an eye to success.