Quotes About Fear

I realize I've sometimes raced over the years like an ice skater fleeing the devil on a frozen river.

The lion growls. Beware thy head.

There's a saying that my mom actually used to say to me when I was a kid, which is, "A fatherless child thinks all things are possible and nothing is safe.

In the stillness of quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.

The other alternative in the nonresistance pattern is to reduce contact with the enemy to a minimum. It is the attitude of cultural isolation in the midst of a rejected culture. Cunning the mood may be—one of bitterness and hatred, but also one of deep, calculating fear. To take up active resistance would be foolhardy, for a thousand reasons. The only way out is to keep one's resentment under rigid control and censorship.

FEAR is one of the persistent hounds of hell that dog the footsteps of the poor, the dispossessed, the disinherited.

How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?

I believe in Jesus An' what the Bible said An' I am fairly certain He had himself a heavy head. He scared the lyin' people So bad, they hung him dead An' they never even listened To what he really said.

Is het mogelijk, dat voor sommige mensen, het hele leven lang, een bepaalde angst niet meer ophoudt?

De psychiaters en, op hun manier, ook de biechtvaders hebben gelijk. Zorgen of angsten, die men uitpraat, relativeren zich tot wat binnen de grenzen valt van wat ons weerstandsvermogen zonder evenwichtsverstoring verdragen kan.

It seems to me that we all have a dream of our own, our own personal vision, our own individual way of giving, but for many reasons we are afraid to pursue it, or to even recognize and accept its existence. But to deny our vision is to sell our soul. Getting is living a lie, turning our back on the truth, and Visions are glimpses of the truth: Obviously nothing external can truly nurture my inner life, my Vision.

For weeks Tyrone thought he was going to die any minute, and there were also times when he was afraid he wasnt going to die.

Sometimes we have the absolute certainty there's something inside us that's so hideous and monstrous that if we ever search it out we won't be able to stand looking at it. But it's when we're willing to come face to face with that demon that we face the angel.

All the energy of their frustration and fear going into their laughter.

It seems to me that we all have a dream of our own, our own personal vision, our own individual way of giving, but for many reasons we are afraid to pursue it, or to even recognize and accept its existence. But to deny our vision is to sell our soul.

I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and it wouldn't be like it had been happening, almost dying but somehow staying alive, but I would just die! And two things would happen right before I died: I would regret my entire life; I would want to live it over again. This terrified me. The thought that I would live my entire life, look at it and realize I blew it forced me to do something with my life.

We're in some real pretty shit now man! game over, game over.

There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

On the whole, however, it is not our own liability to death which oppresses us. The fear of it to a brave man, not to speak of a man of faith, can be overcome. It is the fear of it for others whom we love, which is its sting.

Masters and men do not trust each other; they fear each other, ever thinking that each side is ready to take advantage.

Fear, which blights life and darkens death, is killed by love, as the cloud is dispersed by the sunshine.

In the South it was feared that immigrants did not have the correct racial attitudes: five Italians were lynched, in Tallulah, Louisiana, for associating on equal terms with blacks;

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.