Quotes About Fear

Dont be afraid for me, she had written. When has death ever harmed anyone?

He said the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of peril and all else was the call of languor and of death.

Your ideas are terrifying and your hearts are faint. Your acts of pity and cruelty are absurd, committed with no calm, as if they were irresistible. Finally, you fear blood more and more. Blood and time. PAUL VALÉRY

In my experience people who say no matter what seldom know what what might turn out to be. They dont know how bad what might get.

What if a whole goddamned building was to just up and sink? What about two or three buildings? What about a whole block? Harrogate was waving his bottle about. Goddamn, he said. What if the whole fuckin city was to cave in? That's the spirit, said Suttree.

Imperilment is bottomless. As long as you are breathing you can always be more scared.

the right dreams for a man in peril were dreams of peril and all else was the call of languor and of death.

That hurt, didn't it? The boy said. - Yes. It did. - Are you real brave? - Just medium. - What's the bravest thing you ever did? - He spat into the road a bloody phlegm. Getting up this morning, he said. - Really? - No. Don't listen to me. Come on, let's go.

Somewhere out there is a true and living prophet of destruction and I dont want to confront him. I know he's real. I have seen his work. I walked in front of those eyes once. I wont do it again. I wont push my chips forward and stand up and go out to meet him.

That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.

In die schmutzigen Decken gehüllt, gingen sie durch die Straßen. Er hielt den Revolver auf Hüfthöhe und den Jungen bei der Hand. AM anderen Ende der Stadt stießen sie auf ein für sich stehendes Haus auf einer Wiese und gingen durch sämtliche Zimmer. Sie trafen auf sich selbst in einem Spiegel, und er hätte beinahe den Revolver gehoben. Das sind wir Papa, flüsterte der Junge. Das sind wir.

Most people'll run from their own mother to get to hug death by the neck. They cant wait to see him.

Are you no afraid of God? I got no reason to be afraid of God. I've even got a bone or two to pick with Him. You

The more naive your life the more frightening your dreams. Your unconscious will keep trying to wake you.

Entienda que ya existe este ogro. Este chupador de ojos. Él y otros como él. Ellos no han desaparecido del mundo. Y nunca lo harán.

You would give up your dreams in order to escape your nightmares and I would not. I think it's a bad bargain.

Men do not turn from God so easily you see. Not so easily. Deep in each man is the knowledge that something knows of his existence. Something knows, and cannot be fled nor hid from. To imagine otherwise is to imagine the unspeakable. It was never that this man ceased to believe in God. No. It was rather that he came to believe terrible things of Him. By

That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily. I

He is sinking into a darkness he cannot even comprehend. Darkness and immobilizing cold.

believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Superstition will drag him down. The rain will erode the deeds of his life. But that man who sets himself the task of singling out the thread of order from the tapestry will by the decision alone have taken charge of the world and it is only by such taking charge that he will effect a way to dictate the terms of his own fate.

That all courage was a form of constancy. That it was always himself that the coward abandoned first.

El hombre que cree que los secretos del mundo están ocultos para siempre vive inmerso en el misterio y el miedo. La superstición acabará con él. La lluvia erosionará los actos de su vida. Pero el hombre que se impone la tarea de reconocer el hilo conductor del orden de entre el tapiz habrá asumido por esa sola decisión la responsabilidad del mundo y es solo mediante esa asunción que producirá el modo de dictar los términos de su propio destino.

It was always himself that the coward abandoned first, after this all other betrayals came easily

All courage was a form of constancy. It was always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals came easily.