Quotes About Fear

Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.

Jealousy is the fear of comparison.

My greatest fear: repetition.

Soldiers may accept a need to be the first to die in a war, but there is often an unseemly scramble to avoid becoming the last.

Fear not the result, for either thy end be a majestic and an enviable one, or God shall perpetuate thy reign upon the waters.

At 50 Squadron, there was another verse for the intelligence officer's long epic verse, set to the tune of Noel Coward's "Mad Dogs and Englishmen": When the sirens moan to awake Cologne They shiver in their shoes; In the Berlin street they're white as sheets With a tinge of Prussian blues;

We are readying ourselves to enter a long tunnel full of blood and darkness (Andre Gide, 28 July 1914)

Can you imagine a life with no fear? What if faith, not fear, was your default reaction to threats?

I still cannot take those words to them, my lady. It would mean my life.

Everything is a spook

Seit je hat Aufklärung im umfassendsten Sinn fortschreitenden Denkens das Ziel verfolgt, von den Menschen die Furcht zu nehmen und sie als Herren einzusetzen. Aber die vollends aufgeklärte Erde strahlt im Zeichen triumphalen Unheils. Das Programm der Aufklärung war die Entzauberung der Welt.

Please tread carefully and keep away from the shadows; you are about to enter the abyss.

My hands scrabbled in a wide, frantic arc and touched something hard and round. Wood. I pulled myself forward a few inches, grasped it and, afraid to look, felt above it to a firm, cloth-covered surface. It was a chair. I forced my eyes open. I

I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people, who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything," said Henry Ward Beecher.

To the degree that we deny the gift of life, we embrace death.

The greatest mistake a man can make is to be afraid of making one. —Elbert Hubbard

afraid of making

When we experience expansive emotions of happiness, self-confidence, and success, we enjoy more life. And to the degree that we inhibit our abilities, frustrate our God-given talents, and allow ourselves to suffer anxiety, fear, self-condemnation, and self-hate, we literally choke off the life force available to us and turn our backs on the gift which our Creator has made. To the degree that we deny the gift of life, we embrace death.

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

We have to dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be.

At some point I believe one has to stop holding back for fear of alienating some imaginary reader or real relative or friend, and come out with personal truth.

If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.

I think we all have empathy. We may not have enough courage to display it.

I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you." He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.