Quotes About Fear

Sharks are like ax-murderers, Martin. People react to them with their guts. There's something crazy and evil and uncontrollable about them.

The fish was an enemy. It had come upon the community and killed two men, a woman, and a child. The people of Amity would demand the death of the fish. They would need to see it dead before they could feel secure enough to resume their normal lives.

He wished to kneel beside him and pray. It was not shyness prevented him from doing it on Southampton railway station...It was the fear of being overcome with emotion. This was his flaw, the crack in his clay, and the more dreadful for being so unexpected...

Io sono un uomo che ha imparato che la sopravvivenza è il senso della vita, e che la paura e l'odio sono le uniche emozioni. Quello che non puoi superare con l'odio lo devi temere. E ogni giorno è più difficile odiare e più facile avere paura.

I just read an article on the dangers of heavy drinking...scared the hell out of me. So that's it, after today...no more reading

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You're shrinking Gilbert, you're shrinking! Shrinking, shrinking, shrinking!

A bad dream. You were having a bad dream. Oh, I say. Is that what I'm having?

There were lots of small groups, and there was a great deal of patriotism, but like most patriotism anywhere in the world, this was spurred as much by fear and ignorance as by any true sense of a connection to the Motherland

And I said nothing about how in the child's fear I had seen reflection of all the difficulties that I had ever encountered in Fuling, the people's uncertainty about things new and strange. It was a natural, helpless, human response - an instinct as blameless as a child's. It took time and effort to deal with that, as well as patience, and now I realized how much work had been done on the other side.

There is something in us that fears prayer as a maggot fears light. We must do violence to this voice, for it is not ourselves. It is our Enemy.

The root of most atheism i not argument but attitude, not itellection but feeling, not the love of truth but the fear of truth.

Conservatives often seem afraid of questions and liberals afraid of answers—which is even sillier, because that's like being afraid of food. Being afraid of questions is like being afraid of hunger. That's only cowardice.

St. Thomas connects servile fear with dead faith (loveless faith) and filial fear with living faith.

Fear of harm ought to be proportional not merely to the gravity of the harm, but also to the probability of the event.

But this time I see a new person. Silent. Still. Someone I believe I know. WHO ARE YOU? I move closer but the face is shrouded, the features blurred as if seen through a dirty lens. I'm tempted to run away, but I don't. I know where running leads. To the hole. To death. I know I can no longer fear.

If I am dead, then death is cold.

I screamed, which means I can't tell you the actual words.

I DO NOT hear them, but I know they are near. The creatures. The men. They hunt me through the rocks and jungle trees. I must move, but I cannot. I fear my ankle is broken. If I stay, they will flush me out of this hiding place. When they are through with Father, they will come for me. I pray they spare him. It is I whom they seek.

And die here at age fourteen?

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In fact, most great investors I know (Warren Buffett, for starters) are technophobes. They don't own what they don't understand, and neither do I.

Conflict manipulation is the favored strategy of people who incessantly worry about failure, of managers who excel at motivational chats that point out the highly unpleasant consequences if the company's goals are not achieved, and of social movements that attempt to mobilize people through fear.

I was overtaken by a dread of utter solitude in the great turning world.