Quotes About Fear

What most people don't understand about lawyers is that they're all scared shitless to actually fight with one another.

Optimism is cowardice .

And besides, we lovers fear everything

I am a shipwrecked man who fears every sea.

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

fear feeds fear when knowledge fails

Siqua metu dempto casta est, ea denique casta est; quae, quia non liceat, non facit, illa facit

May the world near and far dread the sons of Aeneas, and if there be land that feared not Rome, may it love Rome instead.

The funny thing is, I was never much of a fighter. Better a live coward than a dead hero, that was my motto.

He shimmered out, and I sat up in bed with that rather unpleasant feeling you get sometimes that you're going to die in about five minutes.

He looked like a Dictator on the point of starting a purge.

We'll fling the door open and make a rush, said Bill. Supposing they shoot, old scout? Burglars never shoot, said Bill. Which was comforting provided the burglars knew it.

I have noticed that sometimes I frighten people; what they really fear is themselves. They think it is I who scare them, but it is the dwarf within them, the ape-faced manlike being who sticks up his head from the depths of their souls.

A guy once told me that girls' purses reminded him of spiders.

Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance. -Shekinah

I'm going to remember this, I told myself sternly. I'm going to remember how awful they made me feel today. So when I'm scared and alone and whatever else is going to happen to me starts to happen, I'm going to remember that nothing about be as bad as being stuck here.Nothing.

Darkness got you like Shelob gor Frodo, only worse.

Your dad would stake me out to freeze if I let you fall and hurt yourself. He offered me his arm, which I latched onto gratefully. He wouldn't stake you out, I panted as we forced our way through the hard top layer of snow that was almost thigh deep. He'd just shoot you. Well that's a comfort.

That's how Darkness works. It turns love into something bad.

I'm going to remember how awful they made me feel today. So when I'm scared and alone and whatever else is going to happen to me starts to happen, I'm going to remember that nothing could be as bad as being stuck here. Nothing.

Remember the lesson our ancestors learned with their precious blood: Fear and bigotry are bred from isolation and ignorance.

Segregation breeds ignorance, and ignorance breeds fear.

I'm going to remember this, I told myself sternly. I'm going to remember how awful they made me feel today. So when I'm scared and alone and whatever else is going to happen to me starts to happen, I'm going to remember that nothing could be as bad as being stuck here. Nothing.

I've found, as a general rule of life, that the things you think are going to be the scaliest nearly always turn out not so bad after all.