Quotes About Fear

PROVERBS 3:25–26 I pray that in righteousness my son shall be established. That he shall be far from oppression, for he shall not fear. And from terror, for it shall not come near him. ISAIAH 54:14

Ecstasy and vulnerability belonged in the same dish. The fear the cup would be snatched away was what gave the wine its savor.

Never be afraid of a cliché, if it expresses what you wish to say.

She had always been far too afraid of losing her husband, or more properly, the financial parasol North had maintained over her head.

But the boy knew that monsters didn't die as easily as hope.

If you are caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

If you're caught on a golf course during a storm and are afraid of lightning, hold up a 1-iron. Not even God can hit a 1-iron.

Fear, the strength of earth's religions, gripping every living soul, Was a monstrous human error for the making of men whole.

When first we pay the price of wisdom With innocence, We are too shocked to understand. Then later must we sit and wonder Whether it was worth the cost To know what every one must some day know. And knowing, ever after be afraid, And filled with shame.

My sister, Swede, who often sees to the nub, offered this: People fear miracles because they fear being changed--though ignoring them will change you also. Swede said another thing, too, and it rang in me like a bell: No miracle happens without a witness. Someone to declare, Here's what I saw. Here's how it went. Make of it what you will.

He said they were afraid, and that fear makes stupid people do wicked things

I know now what lies across the land, the slow and heavy weight. They call it faith, but it is not faith. It is fear. The people have clapped a shelter over their heads, a necessity of ignorance, a passion of retreat, and they have called it God, and worshiped it.

For one timeless ghastly interval he thought he saw the fabric of the ship itself dissolving with him into a mist of discrete particles, he knew that he wasn't human anymore and nothing was real. And then plunged headlong into nothingness.

The entire world wasn't after them. It only seemed that way.

Any fear of aging, I think, is simply vanity.

Better to know defeat from courage than safety through chickenheartedness.

One wanders through life as if wandering through a field in the dark of night, wearing a blindfold and very heavy shoes, with a poisonous toad waiting patiently beneath a clump of weeds, knowing full well that eventually you will step on him.

To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.

To hear the phrase "our only hope" always makes one anxious, because it means that if the only hope doesn't work, there is nothing left.

Is it useful to feel fear, because it prepares you for nasty events, or is it useless, because nasty events will occur whether you are frightened or not?

Everybody will die, but very few people want to be reminded of that fact.

The thing you hope will never happen to you might just happen to someone else instead, who has been spending their life dreading the thing that will happen to you.

There are two types of panicking: standing still and not saying a word, and leaping all over the place babbling anything that comes into your head.

You may be right,' she said, a phrase which here meant 'I'm wrong, but I don't have the courage to say so.