Quotes About Fear

I understood about fear. And I knew better than anyone in that room what Mouse was capable of. But still I had been raised in a place where to show your fear was worse than cowardice. It was suicide, a sin.

A man who is already insane was frightening enough, but when he goes crazy...

People are so afraid of dying that they don't even live the little bit of life they have.

Maybe that's what they're afraid of. Maybe they don't want these children to make up their own minds. Maybe if they did that, the world would change.

looking for that sweet oblivion that all young men, white and black, thought could save them from the greater darkness that dogged their heels.

When I was a kid," I said, "I thought that if I worried about every way I could possibly die, then none of them would happen and I'd live forever.

These were people who faced their fears and created the world as they moved through it.

Scared is the lamp that lights the way.

I ate with them and slept with them, and I killed enough blue-eyed young men to know that they were just as afraid to die as I was.

I went out of the front door without answering because all I had in my lungs was a scream.

Human connection only reminded me of what I could lose.

Every time he slammed his body against the wire fence the jay started as if he were about to fly off, but he didn't. He just kept staring down into those deadly jaws, mesmerized by the spectacle there.

But when you live a life among desperate men and women, any door you open might have Pandora written all over the other side.

I like dogs. If some evolutionist had told me that men had descended from canines I would have believed her. All the brotherly passion, fang-baring hunt lust, and fear I feel on a daily basis I see in dogs.

Fear to do base unworthy things is valour;      If they be done to us, to suffer them      Is valour too.

Hunger and fear are excellent casuists.

Everything is possible for him who possesses courage and activity….and to the timid and hesitating everything is impossible, because it seems so.

If you're afraid of something, then reach deep inside and face it head-on.

Gold is a way of going long on fear, and it has been a pretty good way of going long on fear from time to time. But you really have to hope people become more afraid in a year or two years than they are now. And if they become more afraid you make money, if they become less afraid you lose money, but the gold itself doesn't produce anything.

I will tell you how to become rich. Close the doors. Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful

Be greedy when others are fearful, and fearful when others are greedy

How are we supposed to live in the future when the future just abandons us to the night?

It's been so long, i'm afraid to get laid now! I got so much internal pressure built up that i'd probably blow a hole in a woman the size of my fist!

That's the future. City-states rammed with aging people huddling up against hospitals and looking up in terror for the big storm that will come and go and leave them floating facedown in thirteen feet of shit. And I can't do anything about it.