Quotes About Fear

Whether we like it or not, Linge's Hitler comes across as a rounded human being, and he is arguably all the more terrifying for that. Linge

That evening, the king rode through the gates of Reims while crowds cried 'Noël!' in welcome. The cheers were politic, but their meaning was inscrutable; after so many years of conflict it was impossible to distinguish between expressions of relief and fear, between enthusiasm and exhaustion.

There are people who think death a fate worse than boredom.

Lily had lived in fear before she knew why she was afraid. She'd grown up knowing that people hated her. Perfectly ordinary people, the kind of adults who ought to be helping her to cross the road, hated Lily and wanted her gone. That was the climate of her childhood.

Fear of this order is not an emotion. It is like a virus overwhelming every cell of his body, while his mind struggles to remain clear.

Some things, if you don't do them, they follow you all your life, whispering in your ear," says Granny Carne. She faces me sternly as if she's judging me. "You'll find a dozen good reasons why you pulled back from the Call, and you'll even fool yourself that you had no other choice. But in your bed at night you'll curse yourself for a coward.

I break into a sweat when I find a Sharpie cap, but not the pen.

Fearing cold and flu season, I fist-bump the credit card signature pad.

first choice had been to rent a cabin in the woods, but that is too much nature. I don't do cabins in the woods because I have seen too many movies about cabins in the woods. If someone wants to murder me, they are going to have to get past reception.

Character isn't inherited. One builds it daily by the way one thinks and acts, thought by thought, action by action. If one lets fear or hate or anger take possession of the mind, they become self-forged chains.

The beginner will cling and cling to her thin first draft. She clings to the coast and will strike out into the ocean only under extreme duress

an image of the city, becoming fixed upon it as a threat and above all as a source of destabilization.

For fear was the great unspoken protagonist of the transition process in Spain. Fear most of all of another civil war:

The Republican authorities could not initially prevent extra-judicial killing in their territory because the military coup itself had completely collapsed the police and army as the instruments of public order while it had also generated a huge surge of fear and anger. But the regime subsequently rebuilt public order – not least to put an end to murder.

Terror could only happen because the military allowed it.

the fear-driven social purification underpinning Francoism,

Among the military rebels and all their immediate supporters there was an especially pathological fear and loathing of emancipated women

There should be no fear of death, for the death of the body is but a gentle passing to a much freer life

The most fatal blow to progress is slavery of the intellect. The most sacred right of humanity is the right to think, and next to the right to think is the right to express that thought without fear.

Dark is just light turned inside out, thinks Maddy. Why be afraid of that?

I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to.

The period before something learns to be afraid is the most dangerous of all, because it is then the creatures are the most vulnerable.

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.n

There is plenty of courage among us for the abstract, but not for the concrete.