Quotes About Fear

All men, if they are honest, are scared of the dark. The arrival of light, even a glimmer under the edge of a door, lifts the spirit in a way that can't be described, because it dates back to a time before language. Hope returns, night terrors evaporate. You smile at the childishness of it all, the demons who haunted your sleep. It was just a dream.

speed is a way to prevent ourselves from having to deal with something we do not want to face.

Turns out, I couldn't catch them - or even get close to them. I realized that sharks are amazing, beautiful animals who have absolutely no interest in checking me out.

What was it about the differences in others that scared some people so much?

Jude's fourth law: Caring equals vulnerability. Never show either.

It was because I was scared. Scared of standing out, scared of being invisible. Scared of seeming too big, scared of being too small.

It was because I was scared. Scared of standing out, scared of being invisible. Scared of seeming too big, scared of being too small. Scared of being with Sephy, scared of being away from her.

If only Callum and I didn't have to sneak and creep around.

We are not given the choice of how and when we must serve, only whether we do so with courage and so perhaps succeed, or with fear, in which case we will certainly fail.

A top World War II ace once said that fighter pilots fall into two broad categories: those who go out to kill and those who, secretly, desperately, know they are going to get killed-the hunters and the hunted.

Das Wort der Bibel, daß die Furcht Gottes der Anfang der Weisheit sei, sagt, daß die innere Befreiung des Menschen zum verantwortlichen Leben vor Gott die einzige wirkliche Überwindung der Dummheit ist.

Everthing is fear in love and war

God knows nothing gets accomplished in the world these days without terrorism.

When the mob governs, man is ruled by ignorance; when the church governs, he is ruled by superstition; and when the state governs, he is ruled by fear. Before men can live together in harmony and understanding, ignorance must be transmuted into wisdom, superstition into an illuminated faith, and fear into love.

Ignorance fears all things, falling, terror-stricken before the passing wind. Superstition stands as the monument to ignorance, and before it kneel all who realize their own weakness who see in all things the strength they do not possess

When the mob governs, man is ruled by ignorance; when the church governs, he is ruled by superstition; and when the state governs, he is ruled by fear. Before men can live together in harmony and understanding, ignorance must be transmuted into wisdom, superstition into an illumined faith, and fear into love.

Science and theology are two ends of a single truth, but the world will never receive the full benefit of their investigations until they have made peace with each other and labor hand in hand for the great work-the liberation of spirit and intelligence from the three-dimensional prison of ignorance, superstition and fear.

At heart most men are as terrified of women's infinite sexualcapacity as they are fascinated by it. The general effect on men isto make them feel sexually insecure and causes them to attempt tocompensate with some other strength. Sexual insecurity may bethe primary reason men have sought physical, political, financial,intellectual, and religious advantage over woman.

Comme si c'était pas déjà suffisant de crever, il faut encore se cogner les angoisses de ceux que les métastases laissent provisoirement de côté...

Hay maletas llenas de miedo y maletas llenas de dolor. Han sido mi equipaje en la vida…

Qué miedo, qué miedo atroz de morir para siempre!

Desengáñese usted; el ladrón, por valiente que sea, al tiempo de robar siempre tiene miedo. El valor viene unido, dice Santo Tomás, con la justicia de la causa, y esto le explica a usted el valor de los mártires que desafiaban la cólera de los emperadores romanos; pero volviendo a los ladrones, repito que tienen miedo, y por miedo matan al que trata de conocerlos.

I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones.

Norma Shearer: Mas si por miedo has de buscar en el Amor sólo paz y placer, entonces mejor será que pases de largo por su umbral, rumbo al mundo sin inviernos ni primaveras ni veranos, donde reirás, pero no a carcajadas, y llorarás, pero no todas tus lágrimas.