Quotes About Fear

I feared death and I loved life. I yearned to live long enough to smoke one more cigarette, drink one more drink, experience seven more seconds of obscene bliss, and then, perhaps, but most likely not, I could die. All

Aren't you afraid of ghosts?" I asked. Over the line, in the silence, the static hissed. "You aren't afraid of the things you believe in," he said. This, too, I wrote in his memoir, even though I had not understood what he meant.

The burning ambition of my life was to marry her one day. The consuming worry of my life was to whether she would agree.

He has asked himself sometimes if solitude is preferable to boredom or betrayal, which seemed to be the inevitable end of all happy love affairs, of all happy marriages. People clung to one another out of fear. K.D. has preferred the integrity of being alone. He was a realist, he is. He has the strength to face death alone.

The truth is that human beings like to be ruled. They will talk and talk about freedom, but they are afraid of it. Overpowered by me, they were safe, and happy.

Unclaimed To make love with a stranger is the best. There is no riddle and there is no test. – To lie and love, not aching to make sense Of this night in the mesh of reference. To touch, unclaimed by fear of imminent day, And understand, as only strangers may. To feel the beat of foreign heart to heart Preferring neither to prolong nor part. To rest within the unknown arms and know That this is all there is; that this is so.

Life is not easy for anyone here. Loss and fear, failure and disappointment, pain and ill-health, doubt and death-even those who have escaped from poverty have no escape from these. What makes life bearable is love-to love, to be loved, and-even after death or parting-to know that you have loved and been loved.

It's not the gods But our own hearts We need to fear. The evil starts Against all odds Not there but here.

A clear conscience yields a good night's sleep; without fear even in the desert.

A person's real attitude can be seen when he is in danger.

Bear in mind that you are better than what you are; even an empty pistol can scare hundred people.

Do you wait until you have nothing to lose before you choose?

Fear not the man who fears God, but the one who fears you.

Hate is something we do when we are afraid to love.

He who has no shame before the world has no fear before God.

He who is afraid to die, has already died.

He who studies MA in English Literature but fears the name Shakespeare is one who studies shadow but afraid of its statue.

Just because we know more about people, that's why they don't dare to change themselves.

Never play with the Devil if you are afraid to shake the dice because you will never throw a six.

No one is more afraid of ghosts than those that don't believe in them.

People rarely discuss the things that trouble them most.

Talking about lions is not the same as facing them in the forest.

The man who uses big words is afraid that if people knew what he was talking about, they would know he didn't know what he was talking about.

The reason why most people don't reach their destination is that they are so afraid to fall that they open their parachute before they jump from the sky.