Quotes About Fear

as dangerous as they are, I always hate to kill a cave lion if I don't have to. They are so beautiful, so lithe and graceful in the way they move. Cave lions don't have much to be afraid of. Their strength gives them confidence.

The true sea is cold and black, full of animals...

El amor es una gran cosa poética que es preciso no espantar.

My thought is me: that's why I can't stop. I exist because I think...and I can't stop myself from thinking. At this very moment- it's frightful -if I exist, it is because I am horrified at existing.

Mourons : de tant d'horreurs qu'un trépas me délivre. Est-ce un malheur si grand que de cesser de vivre ? La mort aux malheureux ne cause point d'effroi : Je ne crains que le nom que je laisse après moi

I thought if I told no one it might not be true.

It was the darkness that got you. It was heavy darkness, greasy and compelling. It made walls round you, and shut you in so that you felt like you could not breathe.

The last time you were happy about nothing; the first time you were afraid about nothing. Which came first?

At twenty-four she imagined with dread that she was growing old.

It was as if a curtain had fallen, hiding everything I had ever known. It was almost like being born again. The colours were different, the smells different, the feeling things gave you right down inside yourself was different. Not just the difference between heat, cold; light, darkness; purple, grey. But a difference in the way I was frightened and the way I was happy.

Just you touch me once. You'll soon see if I'm a damn coward like you are.

I went up to him but he was not sick, he was dead and his eyes were black with flies. I ran away and did not speak of it for I thought if I told no one it might not be true.

So darned easy to plot that - and always at the last moment - one is afraid. Or cheats oneself with hope.

An anxious expression spread over his face as he thought to himself that the time was coming when he would have to give up this comfort, and then that comfort, until God knew what would be the end of it all. In this way he was an imaginative man, and when these fits of foreboding overcame him he genuinely forgot that only a succession of highly improbable catastrophes could reduce him to the penury he so feared.

Desiderio, Odio, Vita, Morte erano terribilmente vicini nell'ombra

Vous voulez que je sois sincère, répliquai-je, et vous voulez en même temps que je n'aie pas à rougir de moi. Comment ne voyez-vous pas que tout sentiment profond a des ramifications devant lesquelles on reste effrayé?

La Solitude!...J'aurais mauvaise grâce à en craindre le visage, maintenant qu'il est fatigué et qu'il n'a plus ses belles promesses

Prin angoasa în faÈ›a morÈ›ii experiment?m autenticitatea în cel mai înalt grad.

Ordinary French people. Citizens of fear.

That was the thing to remember about all monsters, They love to frighten people, but the minute you stare them down, they turn tail and run.

Sad state to spend your life in. Being afraid of your own self. Rex Walls, The Glass Castle

I have noticed that doing the sensible thing is only a good idea when the decision is quite small. For the life-changing things, you must risk it.

I have a head for heights it's true, but no stomach for the depths. Strange then to have plumbed so many.

I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.