Quotes About Fear

Jealousy is the fear or apprehension of superiority: envy our uneasiness under it.

We were traveling between a mountain and Thursday, Holding pages back on the calendar, Remembering every turn in the roadway: We hold that sky, we said, and remember. So magic a time it was that I was both brave and afraid. Some day like this might save the world.

For my young friends who are still afraid There is a country to cross you will find in the corner of your eye, in the quick slip of your foot--air far down, a snap that might have caught. And maybe for you, for me, a high, passing voice that finds its way by being afraid. That country is there, for us, carried as it is crossed. What you fear will not go away: it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

And they lived horribly ever after, scaring the socks off all who fell afoul of them.

If it is true that there is no fear (terror) in love, it is also true that there is no love without (reverent) fear.

Don't be afraid. There is no more to fear. Do not fear rejection. If you fear rejection by another you do not love the other, though you may profess it. You are only being anxious for his love of you. The free man does not seek the love of others, nor fear that his love will be rejected, for rejection - as is known from the night Christ was betrayed - does not destroy love, and it does not destroy the one who loves. Don't be afraid, you are not alone.

There are no athiests in foxholes.

My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.

There's many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory but it is all hell.

There are no atheists in the foxholes.

What sustains this "win-lose" mindset is a sense of scarcity, the fear that there is just not enough to go around, so we need to look out for ourselves even at the expense of others.

A nightmare is a black dream because our soul wandered too far in sleep into a haunted place

man would when he heard the whisper of a bullet

I would think of Victoria's domain, And in a moment I seemed to be there! But the fear of being taken again, Soon hurried me back to despair.

War is fear cloaked in courage.

Fair seedtime had my soul, and I grew upFostered alike by beauty and by fear.

The grim shapeTowered up between me and the stars, and still,For so it seemed, with purpose of its ownAnd measured motion like a living thing,Strode after me.

Fear is a cloak which old men huddle about their love, as if to keep it warm.

What fond and wayward thoughts will slideInto a lover's head!"O mercy!" to myself I cried,"If Lucy should be dead!"

Thanks to the human heart by which we live, Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and its fears, To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.

I get scared to death when I see people who say they've found Jesus Christ, and they're out there, and I wonder, who's teaching them? Who's mentoring them?