Quotes About Fear

They say familiarity breeds contempt. This may or may not be true, but it is clear that familiarity breeds comfort: do something scary often enough, and it not only ceases to be scary, it becomes automatic.

Whenever you undertake an activity in which public failure is a possibility, you are likely to experience butterflies in your stomach. I mentioned above that since becoming a stoic, I have become a collector of insults. I have also become a collector of butterflies.

People who hate gays aren't prejudiced because of some obscure passage in the BOok of Leviticus. This prejudice, like every other prejudice, is based on the fact that we are different from them. They don't care that mankind was made in God's image; they want the world to be mad in their image. Bottom line, they get uptight because I'm not just like them. And that scares them. And scared bunnies do crazy things. - Tony Barovick

The essence of civilization is that men should come to be led more by hope and ambition and example and less by fear.

I can look at the knot in a piece of wood until it frightens me.

Death is terrible, tho' borne on angels' wings!

My mother groan'd! my father wept.Into the dangerous world I leapt:Helpless, naked, piping loud,Like a fiend hid in a cloud.

Never seek to tell thy loveLove that never told can be;For the gentle wind does moveSilently, invisibly.I told my love, I told my love,I told her all my heart;Trembling, cold, in ghastly fears—Ah, she doth depart.Soon as she was gone from meA traveler came bySilently, invisibly—Oh, was no deny.

People who are not enjoying themselves very much always most dislike risking their lives.

The whole plot was a sinister drollery, the simple delight of stirring up great crowds to die and kill, of one who could not be swayed by anything himself; the anticipation of the spectacle of fear by one who was terrified at nothing. The vice of a man who had become inhuman by losing his human greed.

It terrifies me, the fragility of these moments in our lives.

We're not ready for it - for people our age to die. We think we're safe for a while, but it's a dream. No one's safe.

This same kind of overreaction occurs when an ending is viewed as symbolic of some larger loss. The minor layoff in a company that has never had layoffs before is an example. It isn't the loss of the particular individuals—it's the loss of the safety people felt from the no-layoff policy.

Yet beginnings are also scary, for they require a new commitment.

Most loving Father, who has taught us to dread nothing but the loss of You, preserve me from faithless fears and worldly anxieties.

Many humans remain obsessed with the existence of hell. Their concepts are often primitive and heavily influenced by their religions. The

fear of heights,

Sending love to a manifestation of fear will cause it to dissipate and disappear.

Send love to your fears

It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield

I am still of [the] opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood--sex and the dead.

Nor dread nor hope attend A dying animal; A man awaits his end Dreading and hoping all.

Reflecting from the vantage of more than a century, we can see today how trapped the leaders of the South felt in 1860. That the snare was only partially genuine, and partially in their imaginations and fears, made it no less real to them at the time. They had to act on the basis of what they knew and believed, and the fact that subsequent events and detached dispassionate study reveal that some of their belief was chimerical does not signify.

26They might not be able to inflame poor non-slaveholding whites to secession and possible war to protect the planter's investment in slaves, but an appeal to fears of racial amalgamation cut across class lines.