Quotes About Fear

Piantala con questi mostri, Michele. I mostri non esistono. I fantasmi, i lupi mannari, le streghe sono fesserie inventate per mettere paura ai creduloni come te. Devi avere paura degli uomini, non dei mostri.

Stop all this talk about monsters, Michele. Monsters don't exist. It's men you should be afraid of, not monsters.

La paura finisce dove comincia la verità.

Maria mi si è sdraiata accanto. - Ho paura. - Loro hanno paura. - Perchè? - Perchè urlano.

The hole was a couple of meters wide and two, two and a half meters deep. It was empty. No, there was something there. A heap of rolled-up rags? No... An animal? A dog? No... What was it? It was hairless... white... a leg... A leg! I jumped backwards and nearly tripped over. A leg? I took a deep breath and had a quick look down. It was a leg

Devi avere paura degli uomini, non dei mostri.

Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

Men ought either to be indulged or utterly destroyed, for if you merely offend them they take vengeance, but if you injure them greatly they are unable to retaliate, so that the injury done to a man ought to be such that vengeance cannot be feared.

When you disarm your subjects you offend them by showing that either from cowardliness or lack of faith, you distrust them; and either conclusion will induce them to hate you.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.

A coward cannot have any prayer answered.

Plagues reshape our familiar social order, require us to disperse and live apart, wreck economies, replace trust with fear and suspicion, invite some to blame others for their predicament, embolden liars, and cause grief. But plagues also elicit kindness, cooperation, sacrifice, and ingenuity.

His ships might arrive in time to save the day, or they might arrive in time to be destroyed in their turn.

They thought him pusillanimous,

I can remember the Winter of the Hundred Slain as a man may remember some bad dream he dreamed when he was little, but I cannot tell just how much I heard when I was bigger and how much I understood when I was little. It is like some fearful thing in a fog, for it was a time when everything seemed troubled and afraid.

The worst thing about fear is what it does to you when you try to hide it.

The reason there are bugs in the bed," he explained, "is that they're too scared to get down on the floor.

don't run away from a challenge because I am afraid. Instead, I run toward it because the only way to escape fear is to trample it beneath your feet. —NADIA COMANECI, Olympic gold medal gymnast

Repeated psychology experiments have shown that fear makes us more conservative in our political beliefs, and Richard Nixon seized upon the fears in 1968 when he ran for president with coded dog whistles playing on white apprehensions of black unrest.

Knowing is the easy part; saying it out loud is the hard part.

Annie looked into his eyes with their blood-crazed whites and for the first time in her life knew how one might come to believe in the devil.

Halloween wraps fear in innocence, As though it were a slightly sour sweet. Let terror, then, be turned into a treat...

On Halloween, witches come true; Wild ghosts escape from dreams. Each monster dances in the park....