Quotes About Fear

More people have a fear of speaking than a fear of death. So at a funeral, most people would want to be the person in the coffin rather than the person delivering the eulogy!

Dictatorship is a story about death of others who turn out to be you coincidently.

Death ready stands to interpose his dart.

Death is easier to bear without thinking of it, than the thought of death without peril.

Dying well is easy,it only takes a moment of courage. It's living well that I couldn't do. What's death compared to that.

Death has always had a prominent place in my mind. There are times when I think somebody might kill me.

None of us is ever ready,' he (Ned) said. 'For knighthood?' 'For death.

There's something dreadfully decisive about a beheading.

In death itself there can be nothing terrible, for the act of death annihilates sensation; but there are many roads to death, and some of them justly formidable, even to the bravest.

I used to be afraid of two things - being alone and not being able to write. Since Albert's death, I don't care about writing or about other people.

Many persons sigh for death when it seems far off, but the inclination vanishes when the boat upsets, or the locomotive runs off the track, or the measles set it.

Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin.

More people worry themselves to death than bleed to death.

What misery to be afraid of death. What wretchedness, to believe only in what can be proven.

True courage, in the face of almost certain death, is the rarest quality on earth.

Let us live like those who expect to die, and then we shall find that we feared death only because we were unacquainted with it.

I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.

Death approaches, which is always impending like the stone over Tantalus: then comes superstition with which he who is imbued can never have peace of mind.

I'm obsessed with crocodiles and getting eaten by one. When I hear that someone's been eaten by a crocodile or shark, I just get all gooey. I start salivating.

Death is something we don't have to fear, since as long as we exist death doesn't and when it does we don't.

I'm watching the Weather Channel more than I've ever watched it. I'm scared to death it's going to rain.

Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.

We look at death through the cheap-glazed windows of the flesh, and believe him the monster which the flawed and cracked glass represents him.

The coffin, it shall protect me, though Death himself lies in it