Quotes About Fear

At the deepest level people are madder than they want to believe. You will find that they fear being eaten, and are alarmed by their desire to devour others.

Secrets are my currency: I deal in them for a living. The secrets of desire, of what people really want, and of what they fear the most. The secrets of why love is difficult, sex complicated, living painful and death so close and yet placed far away. Why are pleasure and punishment closely related? How do our bodies speak? Why do we make ourselves ill? Why do you want to fail? Why is pleasure hard to bear?

So badly did he not want to fuck it up, he could only fuck it up.

I had many, many, many death threats. I couldn't open letters for a long time, because they all had to be opened by either the FBI or somebody. I couldn't open letters. I had to be escorted. In fact, just recently I went to a funeral, Calvin Wardlaw, who was the detective -- the policeman -- with me for two years, passed away just recently. He and I got to be bosom buddies really, but that was the hardest part. I wasn't able to enjoy -- you know.

The climax of terror is reached when the police state begins to devour its own children, when yesterday's executioner becomes today's victim.

If he tried to pull her out of the trap she had ridden into, he could easily get himself killed. Gisele felt certain that she would

I was like some daft child who burns himself once and after that is willing to shiver in the darkness rather than make a fire.

From bitter experience she knew that pictures thrown on the screen of her imagination could seem much more unnerving and terrible than the actual facts.

Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates.

Our lives are full of supposes. Suppose this should happen, or suppose that should happen; what could we do; how could we bear it? But, if we are living in the dwelling place of God, all these supposes vanish and we shall be free from fear.

Du hast deine Furcht überwunden. Das ist weitaus mehr wert, als keine Furcht zu haben.

I don't think that anyone seriously fears that the world can be blown to pieces all together. But what one can fear and rightly so are regional things, like in the Middle East, India, Pakistan, the Korean Peninsula, borders in Africa, etc.

She was lying on a sofa, fast asleep. She was so very beautiful that the merchant's son was driven to kiss her. She woke up and was dreadfully frightened, but he said that he was a Prophet of the Turks and he had flown down through the air to see her, and this pleased her very much.

Das ist es ja, was ich immer sage: wir sind feige. Wir denken nur an das, was mit uns geschehen wird, nie an das, was den andern geschieht.

I believe the last thing that runs through the brain of a dying man is hope.

Coffins and coffins, enough for everyone on the shift, enough for everyone in Germany! The men are still alive, but they are already making their own coffins.

All was darkness, and she had been full of fear and apprehension, and then the sun had peeped through the clouds once more.

In all my years of Ghost Hunting I have never been afraid, after all, a ghost is only a fellow human being in trouble

Durruti pasaba delante de los policías sin inmutarse. "Yo tengo tanto miedo como tu", dijo. "El miedo y el valor vienen juntos. A veces no sé dónde termina el uno y dónde termina el otro".

Han behøver ikke være bange for indbrud og overfald. Døren er forsvarligt låset. Om den er låset udefra eller indefra kan for så vidt være ligegyldigt.

N?i s? b? lên án ? con ng??i c?ng l?n nh? vi?c khao khát ???c tán th??ng.

It was a new discovery for us that the stalwart and robust-seeming men often lost their nerve under combat conditions, while the supposedly weak proved to be strong and kept their heads at precarious moments.

6. Yüzy?l, tarihte e?ine az rastlan?r bir felaket dönemiydi. 513 Y?l?nda Vezüv de dahil volkan patlamalar?; 526 y?l?nda 200 binden fazla insan öldüren Antakya depremi, Konstantinopol depremi ve di?erleri; k?tl?klar ve bunu takip eden vebalar; Asya, Orta Do?u ve Avrupa'ya 60 y?ldan uzun bir süre korku ve y?k?m getirdi.

Being a parent is not for the faint of heart. I may joke about knowing fear, but the fact is, the first time I ever knew real fear was the day Charlotte, my first child, was born. Suddenly there is someone in the world you care about more than anything.