Quotes About Fear

You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

And meanwhile death was as terrible in a small man as in a great one.

They were terrified out of their wits, the devil knows why: they take you for a brigand and a spy. And the prosecutor has died of fright; the funeral is to-morrow. Won't you be there?

Korku vebadan da tehlikelidir ve göz aç?p kapayana kadar yay?l?r.

Dreadful and fearsome is the old age which will come, for it gives nothing back, nothing in return!

Fear is more contagious than the plague and is instantly communicated.

La peur, plus contagieuse encore que la peste, se communique en un clin d'œil. Tous se découvrirent des péchés qu'ils n'avaient même pas commis.

It was like a flash of lightning amidst the dark of night, when for some reason you suddenly see an extraordinary multitude of things at once: the bed canopy, the folding screen, the window, the canary fluttering on its perch, and a glass with a silver spoon in it and spots of magnesium on its handle. It is probably the quality of fear to have big eyes.

She cares too much, that little one. It is not safe. No, it is not safe." —HERCULE POIROT

The only person who can really hurt you in life," she would write, many years later, "is a husband.

marks around her neck. She tilted her head and smiled at me. I swallowed. I was never going to drink anything again. How could I pee with Christie around?

You learn about fight or flight, but no one ever mentions the third alliterative option - freeze.

Love is not selective, desire is selective. In love there are no strangers. When the centre of selfishness is no longer, all desires for pleasure and fear of pain cease; one is no longer interested in being happy; beyond happiness there is pure intensity, inexhaustible energy, the ecstasy of giving from a perennial source.

Do not be afraid of freedom from desire and fear. It enables you to live a life so different from all you know, so much more intense and interesting that, truly, by losing all you gain all.

To be is to suffer. The narrower the circle of my self-identification, the more acute the suffering caused by desire and fear.

Our only hope is to stop, to look, to understand, and to get out of the traps of memory. For memory feeds imagination and imagination generates desire and fear.

Merely assuaging fears and satisfying desires will not remove this sense of emptiness you are trying to escape from; only self-knowledge can help you.

The very desire to live is the messenger of death, as the longing to be happy is the outline of sorrow. The world is an ocean of pain and fear, anxiety and despair. Pleasures are like the fishes, few and swift, coming rarely, quickly gone.

It is this clash between desire and fear that causes anger, which is the great destroyer of sanity in life. When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between pain and pleasure breaks down, and both become experience - painful when resisted, joyful when accepted.

Once you can say with confidence born from direct experience, "I am the world, the world is myself," you are free from desire and fear on one hand and become totally responsible for the world on the other.

Your begging bowl may be of pure gold, but as long as you do not know it, you are a pauper. You must know your inner worth and trust it and express it in the daily sacrifice of desire and fear.

Leave alone your desires and fears and give your entire attention to the subject, to he who is behind the experience of desire and fear. Ask: who desires? Let each desire bring you back to yourself.

I was afraid of becoming used to the sorrow that had grown like a gnarled tree inside me.

Here's something else Einstein said: "The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.