Quotes About Fear

We are afraid to put men to live and trade each on his own private stock of reason, because we suspect that this stock in each man is small, and that the individuals would do better to avail themselves of the general bank and capital of nations and of ages.

All general privations are great, because they are all terrible; vacuity, darkness, solitude, and silence .

I believe that many of the boys have a lurking fear that their parents will disgrace them in some fashion.

LOOK NOW, IN YOUR IGNORANCE, ON THE FACE OF DEATH.

They that haue much, feare much to loose thereby, And store of cares doth follow riches store.

his hand did quake, And tremble like a leafe of Aspin greene, And troubled blood through his pale face was seene To come, and goe with tidings from the heart, As it a ronning messenger had beene.

What I had instead was the ache of waiting and the fear I wasn't worthy.

I wanted power so badly that I had convinced myself I already had too much of it, that I was an evil schemer who might destroy everyone around me through the poison seeping out of my pores. I was appalled by my own majesty. I wanted someone to betray.

I had not realized how far gone she was and how much she dreaded the homecoming, the ghost. We don't know others. They are an enigma. We can't know them, especially those we are most intimate with, because habit blurs us and hope blinds us to the truth.

It was no longer her sleeping room, it was our sleeping room now. We made friends the night it thundered, big claps of it and forked lightning flared then sizzled inside the room, she cowering under my bed, terrified that Eric Eric, the man with the clapper who broke up the big ships in the harbor in Malmo, was coming for her.

her husband a grown man, afraid to sleep alone in his own house, he who for many a year struck terror into her and Eleanora.

A work is completed without deference to a husband, an absurd epic of maudlin childhood is about to be sent to a pimp, before a husband is allowed to correct it," he said seething. "You would only tinker with it," she said fearless, though fearing.

suddenly the window flew open, swung back and forth on its hinges, as if something was about to come in, and she waited in dread for what that something might be.

George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha: I am, George. I am.

Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf mean who's afraid of the big bad wolf…who's afraid of living without false illusions

ROSS I hear a kind of … rushing sound, like a … wooooosh!, or … wings, or something. MARTIN It's probably the Eumenides.

I had no night terrors. Maybe when your real life becomes the terror, there's just nothing left to dream about

The bulletproof vest--'bullet resistant,' technically--is made of two double panels of a synthetic material called Kevlar, inside a cloth carrier that holds it around your torso like a lead X-ray smock. One cop wrote phrases from the Bible on his, 'Yea, though I walk in the valley of the Shadow of Death...' Other cops wrote their blood type.

It was eight years since publication of The Riddle of the Sands, but people still read it. "Do you fear war too?

It was an inflexible maxim of Roman discipline that good soldier should dread his own officers far more than the enemy

during the long period which elapsed between the Egyptian and the Babylonian servitudes, the hopes as well as fears of the Jews appear to have been confined within the narrow compass of the present life.

Fear has been the original parent of superstition, every new calamity urges trembling mortals to deprecate the wrath of invisible enemies

I myself, continued Attila, will throw the first javelin, and the wretch who refuses to imitate the example of his sovereign, is devoted to inevitable death.

be apprehensive of delations, which, as a subject, I have always condemned, and, as a prince, will severely punish.