Quotes About Fear

Computers will be the death of us all.

Someday, he thought, I would like to meet a monster who looked like a monster.

You miss a lot watching life from the sidelines--and letting fear hold you back.

Final warning. Shut up or die.

Life is a risk, mi cielo. Don't let fear stop you from being everything God intended you to be. Go. Learn. Live. Love. What you and I share won't change with geography. It will always shine as bright as these stars—even after I'm gone.

It was a frightening thing to do, but if one did nothing -- well, that was frightening too.

This pervasive sense of danger has discouraged many serious scholars from visiting Japanese archives to conduct their research on the subject; indeed, I was told in Nanking that the People's Republic of China rarely permits its scholars to journey to Japan for fear of jeopardizing their physical safety.

Come to close?No one wants to come to close.If it's done for them,they accept it,even while they condemn it.Why not?But no one wants to know what it's like.Turn a blind eye.Maybe it will go away.

You see how it shocks and horrifies you? Our religion is based on the holy books, and you cannot conceive that they're not perfect. You're afraid that if one lie exists, the entire fabric could be rotten. - Ware

That's what's most frightening. You can live your life in the best way, the most moral way possible, and it doesn't make any difference. A madman chooses you at random and takes away everything. It's not fair.

You try to be selfish because you're afraid of letting anyone too near. To guard themselves is the way of people whose instinct is to nurture and protect. - Kadar den Arnaud

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

I hesitate to demonstrate my ignorance, which is never a good idea, by the way. Because you only get oppressed.

Gilgi is drifting in the river of superfluous feelings. Superfluous? They were once, they seemed to be once. Isn't she happy? Of course she is. Often. But the hours of happiness come at a high price. The bill is presented promptly. Pay it! With what? With fear and twinges of pain. No, I don't think the price is too high, I just find the currency strange. Fear - pain! To whom should I pay them? Who profits from this odd currency?

In der Luft zitterte noch Schreien, man hörte es nicht mehr, man sah es nur noch. Wir sahen und fühlten es alle und waren für eine Sekunde vereint in Trauer und Angst. Denn es war getötet worden, und wir sind dabei gewesen.

Do you love me, just a teensy-weensy bit, my dove, or is it just my money?' he asks full of fear - and that moves me so much that I actually start to have some feelings for him.

Horror would not annoy a soldier any more than the sight of a hammer annoys a carpenter. It is sentimental to pretend that horror is not the tool of the soldier, just as the hammer is the tool of the carpenter. We live off death and the threat of death and we must take it calmly and use it well.... Eventually I came to enjoy killing, as a pianist enjoys the Czerny which keeps his fingers limber for the Beethoven.

I fear my ignorance.

Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never imagine what the devil people think computers can add to the horrors.

I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

Ich glaube, dass die Angst die man hat, wenn man an einem Abgrund steht, in Wahrheit vielmehr eine Sehnsucht ist. Eine Sehnsucht sich fallen zu lassen- oder die Arme auszubreiten und zu fliegen.

What I fear most is power with impunity. I fear abuse of power, and the power to abuse.

Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.

If I write something, I fear it will happen, and if I love too much, I fear I will lose that person; nevertheless, I cannot stop writing or loving...