Quotes About Fear

When people are afraid they will give up almost anything for the illusion of safety.

I know it is a time of fear, but equally we should be wary of fearing too much and suspecting where suspicion is pointless. The Dark seeks just such erosions of trust for they serve its purpose.

I would not like to pass another night in the open, even with Maerad the Unpredictable to protect us; and my head is sore as a bear's.

I think you are a liar because you think you know what is true. You think you feel what is true. But you do not yet know what you do feel and what you do know. Your desire and do not take; you love and are too afraid to feel your love; you conceal your vanity and pettiness from yourself; you are afraid to look into your soul and see what you are. That iis why i think you are a liar.

The only good thing about being frightened half to death, she thought, is that it makes me forget all about being seasick.

It's the price you pay for being dumb enough to feel secure in your life.

Are you frightened now?" I nodded, shame flushing my skin. "Is it going to stop you?" "No." "That is the courage of a warrior.

A drowning man groping for a twig.

Which way do we run when we see danger: away from it, or towards it?" "It depends on what the danger is," Helen said. "No. It depends on what is at stake.

Are any of us safe? How do we make it through? How, when you know you are going to leave this life whether you want to or not - when you know that you and everyone you love will leave this life - do we make it? I don't want to die.

There are no brave men and cowardly men in the world, my son. There are only brave men. To be born, to live, to die—that takes courage enough in itself, and more than enough. We are all brave men and we are all afraid, and what the world calls a brave man, he too is brave and afraid like the all rest of us. Only he is brave for five minutes longer.

She had the best kind of courage, or maybe the worst kind, the kind that gets you into trouble.

A terrified rat will swear to anything.

The Major Smiths of this world don't drive over the edge of a cliff. Quotation from the future Mrs. Schaffer. The Major Smiths of this world don't fall off the roofs of cable cars. Quotation from the future Mrs. Schaffer's future husband.

There are many things that people will do in the dark that they will not do in light.

Aristocracies hate and fear demagogues most of all, while democracies in their pure form hate and fear elitists most of all, because they are unjust, i.e., they do not accept the leading principle of justice in those regimes. Hence each regime discounts those who are most likely to recognize and compensate for its political and intellectual propensities, while it admires those who encourage them.

Lifting the pillow, he brought out kanarack's gun and hefted it in his hand. Tipping it toward him, he saw the hole where death came out. It looked easy. Even seductive. The Simplest way of all. No more fear of the police, or of the tall man. Best of all, his pain would be instantly gone. He Wondered why he hadn't thought of it before.

Till the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, most American men wore hats to work. What happened? Did our guys—suddenly scouting overhead for worse Sunday raids—come to fear their hatbrims' interference?

Los que temerán el confesarse discípulos de la verdad, no son dignos de ser admitidos en el reino de la verdad". Perderán el beneficio de su fe, porque es una fe egoísta que guardan para ellos mismos, pero que la ocultan por miedo de que les ocasione perjuicio en este mundo, mientras que aquellos que colocando la verdad sobre sus intereses materiales la proclaman abiertamente, trabajan al mismo tiempo para su porvenir y para el de los otros.

Ha. If given a choice of dodging a bullet or stepping in its way, I'll choose dodging when I can. Anyway, to face death, you only need a dram of courage. To face life you need a good deal more.

Skydivers are people who enjoy falling down.

Fear was there, too, cold and hot at the same time, making everything in the plain room sharper, with fewer shadows.

Sometimes fear isn't a bad thing. It keeps you alert and aware.

deep inside she wondered--feared--what it would take to break her.