Quotes About Fear

Busy thyself with the secrets of wisdom and knowledge, thus thou shalt overcome the fear of the morrow in thee.

Courage is the capacity to confront what can be imagined.

Why do the wicked always form groups, whereas the righteous do not? Because the wicked, walking in darkness, need company, but the righteous, who live in the light, do not fear being alone.

We are now brought face to face with a tyranny which holds out the threat of becoming, thanks to "the conquest of nature" and in particular of human nature, what no other tyranny ever became: perpetual and universal.

Just as the banqueteers are drunk from wine, the citizens are drunk from fears, hopes, desires, and aversions and are therefore in need of being ruled by a man who is sober.

Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.

Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up.

He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

she smiled at him, and at her own fears.

He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. "Where is it? What death?" There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light.

Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible.

I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it.

I said briskly, trying not to shriek and climb the walls like a girly-girl.

It begins with Miller the Killer turning his head to see me eating Bolognese from the sick bag. Only he thinks I'm eating…

And now the fear and fascination with this peripatetic shooting gallery had galvanized the country.

Fear lowers one's vibration tremendously.

I could see clearly that this growing belligerence was an aberration, coming not from intention, but from the Fear.

Healing in its essence is about breaking through the fears associated with life—fears

of courage and security from every sod of it would have evaporated beyond recall. We should be irrevocably cut

She formed her life day by day, taking as its materials the emptiness and panic as well as the rushes, like fever, of contentment. I am beyond fear of solitude, she thought, I am past it. The idea thrilled her. I am beyond it and I will not sink. This submission, this triumph made her stronger. It was as if finally, after having passed through inferior stages, her life had found a form worthy of it.

I am afraid of him, of all men who are successful in love.

His devotion is complete; he is beginning to sense the confusion that arises from the first fears of what life would be like without her. He knows there can be such a thing, but like the answer to a difficult problem, he cannot imagine it.

The need to fear such things was ended