Quotes About Fear

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.

suddenly felt frightened. He was reaching that age, he was at the edge of it, when the world becomes suddenly more beautiful, when it reveals itself in a special way, in every detail, roof and wall, in the leaves of trees fluttering faintly before a rain. The world was opening itself, as if to allow, now that life was shortening, one long, passionate look, and all that had been withheld would finally be given.

My working definition of a successful novel is this: the emotionally satisfying account of how a character deals with imminent death. Once

Curiosity will conquer fear more than bravery will.

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

Fear cannot be where knowledge is

For the mind fears loneliness more than all else, and will escape to the moon rather than be driven inwards on its own being.

All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.

you might as well fall on your face as lean over too far backwards

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

Her own mother lived the latter years of her life in the horrible suspicion that electricity was dripping invisibly all over the house.

Hens embarrass me; owls disturb me; if I am with an eagle I always pretend that I am not with an eagle; and so on down to swallows at twilight who scare the hell out of me. But pigeons have absolutely no effect on me.

The cold Duke was afraid of Now, for Now has warmth and urgency, and Then is dead and buried.

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread, and the angels are all in Heaven, but few of the fools are dead.

I won't go down the horrible street To see the horrible people I'll gladly climb the terrible stair That leads to the terrible steeple And the terrible rats And the terrible bats And the cats in the terrible steeple But I won't go down the horrible street To see the horrible people

Hens embarrass me; owls disturb me; if I am with an eagle I always pretend that I am not with an eagle...

Por qué no le preguntó usted como era que se encontraba allí con el? Encendí un cigarro y contesté: - Señora, tenía miedo de que desapareciera de repente

For example, automobiles kill far more people today than do spiders or snakes. But people are far more averse to spiders and snakes than they are to automobiles. Why? Because in our EEA spiders and snakes were a serious threat to our survival and reproduction, whereas automobiles did not exist. Thus, it was possible—not to mention advantageous for our survival and reproduction—for us to evolve an innate aversion to spiders and snakes, but not to automobiles.

A man who uses force is afraid of reasoning. ~ Kenyan Proverb

Oosick, cootie shot! Give me a cootie shot!

The texts' representation of homosexuality thus overturn the Christian fundamentalist accusation that it is sinful because it is not procreative. As the boys produce new beings through gay sex, they empower both themselves and the site of their desire, the anus. The heterosexual fear of the anus as a grave, as death, and as nothingness, is challenged and transformed into a queer celebration of its role as a site of desire and alternate reproduction.

You looked pretty good out there," she said, smiling up at him. "A little like a tasty seal, but I didn't see any hungry sharks.

Eleanor Roosevelt once said, 'Do one thing every day that scares you.' From now on, that's what we have to do.

Worst of all, she realized, Zohrane was without fear, and fear is the braking system of intelligence.