Quotes About Fear

Cutting off he head just makes a dangerous bowling ball with teeth. 

I told you why. If I don't do it now, I never will. I'll just be some office drone ten years from now, wishing I had done something interesting at least once in my life.

If a member of the military can be killed and left in the road, in front of his own house, then who will be safe in this country?

Progress always comes at a cost, but if we fear the unknown, we will never get anywhere. Nothing in life is risk-free.

with their pens, and no less great with their swords—fearing God very much, and fearing men very little,—they were a generation of men who have never received from their country the honor that they deserve.

basis for decision making (Proverbs 29:25).

a risk-free life is a life that's not worth living.

because we cannot see things beforehand, and only know how dreadfully miserable we are, we think it is always going to be so.

the other he keeps away from church. People get out of his way when he appears once in a twelve-month down here among us. We all fear him and he is really just like a heathen or an old Indian, with those thick grey eyebrows and that huge uncanny beard. When he wanders along the road with his twisted stick we are

The more we know the easier it is to survive. Knowledge dispels fear.

One looks at death, always moves toward it, but until the last denies its existence.

The true source of our sufferings has been our timidity.

People are more slothful than timid. Their greatest fear is the heavy burden that uncompromising honesty and nakedness of speech and action would lay on them.

Where then shall hope and fear their objects find? The harbor cold to the mating ships, And you have lost as you stand by the balcony With the forest of the sea calm and gray beneath. A strong impression torn from the descending light But night is guilty. You knew the shadow In the trunk was raving But as you keep growing hungry you forget. The distant box is open. A sound of grain Poured over the floor in some eagerness--we Rise with the night let out of the box of wind.

It was like rushing forward in the dark forest without knowing what danger lurked in front of my face.

she would freeze and be no help when the danger came. These street girls were never as tough as they made out.

The secret of survival is a defective imagination. The inability of mortals to imagine things as they truly are is what allows them to live, since one momentary, unresisted glimpse of the world's totality of suffering would annihilate them on the spot, like a whiff of the most lethal sewer gas.

O my friends!- to be queer was very bliss. The fifties was the last great age of queerdom. All the talk now is of freedom and pride (pride!), but there young hotheads in their pink bell-bottoms, clamouring for the right to do it in the streets if they feel like it, do not seem to appreciate, or at least seem to wish to deny, the aphrodisiac properties of secrecy and fear

His years as a policeman had taught him to be not fearless, only to disregard the fact of being afraid.

I had never liked, even feared a little, this wild reach of marsh and mud flats where everything seemed turned away from the land, looking off desperately toward the horizon as if in mute search for a sign of rescue.

The world's first task, as I knew well, a task it never relaxed from, was to undo me. I was even afraid of the sky.

She had that look - scared and sort of paralysed but frantic underneath - that girls got when they could think of only the one thing. It was a look that told him it would be her first time.

What has this new generation to offer the world? Only the fruits of their fear.

For whom is the funhouse fun? Perhaps for lovers. For Ambrose it is a place of fear and confusion .