Quotes About Fear

The profoundest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad.

But when I first got cancer, after the initial shock and the fear and paranoia and crying and all that goes with cancer - that word means to most people ultimate death - I decided to see what I could do to take that negative and use it in a positive way.

Wer seinem Volk Angst macht, der braucht es [...] nicht zu fürchten.

Heute ist der Terrorist an die Stelle des Mörders von einst getreten.

Angst macht süchtig nach Strafrecht.

Nirgendwo werden aus vermeintlichen Absurditäten so schnell Normalitäten wie auf dem Gebiet der Inneren Sicherheit.

Ik word verteerd door levenstwijfel omdat ik niet zou weten waarover je anders moet twijfelen dan over het leven en ik word verteerd door doodsverachting omdat ik niet weet wat je anders zou moeten verachten dan de dood.

Ik kijk door de halfgeopende jaloezieën. Ik zie een schim rond het huis van de buren waren. De schim van de man die ik tevoren al eens gezien heb in de tuin van de buren. (...) Ik open m'n raam en ik roep, niet al te luid: 'Ik ga nu de politie bellen.' De schim verstijft. Ik blijf roepen: 'Ik ga nu de politie bellen. Ik ga nu de politie bellen. Ik ga nu de politie bellen. Ik ga nu de politie bellen. Ik ga nu de politie bellen.' De man is weggevlucht uit de tuin.

the possibility of success was motivating me more than the fear of failure.

If Luther's day expand to Darwin's year,Shall that exclude the hope—foreclose the fear?

Woe to him who seeks to pour oil upon the waters when God has brewed them into a gale! Woe to him who seeks to please rather than to appall!

I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.

In the morning he would forget all of it—but the night was not yet over. And somewhere in the darkest, iciest low part of it, when even owls and loons were prompted to noiselessness out of either fear or respect, he slipped deeper into sleep, as deep into it as a man could go without losing all chance of coming back. Still, even in the pit of it, he could hear and identify the sound. The rocker, creaking.

Outside, in and about the snow and the dark, where fancies dangled and fear hung over the starched snow in rolling mists, something was coming to pass.

When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.

No one can see another in the darkness, Esch, and that cloudless clarity of yours is only a dream. You know that I cannot keep you beside me, much as you fear your loneliness. We are a lost generation. I too can only go about my business.

Close your eyes and let the mind expand. Let no fear of death or darkness arrest its course. Allow the mind to merge with Mind. Let it flow out upon the great curve of consciousness. Let it soar on the wings of the great bird of duration, up to the very Circle of Eternity.

McKenna uses this story of a drowning woman to illustrate how stubbornly we can hold ourselves back.

He heard the opening being shut like a trap, and his heart almost stopped beating, for this was the Fairies' home…

Intimacy can be an unbearable burden for those who, first experiencing it after a lifetime of proud self-sufficiency, suddenly realize it makes their world complete. Finding bliss becomes one with the fear of losing it.

Finding bliss becomes one with the fear of losing it.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half of the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.