Quotes About Fear

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

In all likelihood, the nightwatch, not prostitution, is the world's most ancient profession, originating as soon as men and women first feared the darkness.

Bronze gods, Mikani. You've seen death before. Bloody hells, we've buried friends together, you and I." "She's different, Hu." "Then tell her that before it's too late, you sodding imbecile.

Europe is a place that conserves. It maintains, it curates its civilization, protects it against the ravages and rust of other cultures, and the rot of time and intellectual theft. We are a continent where fear of losing what we have is greater than the ambition to make it anew.

There is a theory that bravery and intrepidness and extreme risk taking are all sorts of madness, and that only one person in 1,000 or 100,000 is born without the normal safety rail of self-preservation, the pressing need to turn around and go home when it's dark, cold and frightening.

It is hard to be brave, when you're only a Very Small Animal.

Christopher Robin ... just said it had an "x."' 'It isn't their necks I mind,' said Piglet earnestly. 'It's their teeth.

James gave the huffle of a snail in danger. And nobody heard him at all.

It is hard to be brave,' said Piglet, sniffing slightly, 'when you're only a Very Small Animal.

Piglet was so excited at the idea of being useful that he forgot to be frightened.

Her strong enchantments failing, Her towers of fear in wreck, Her limbecks dried of poisons And the knife at her neck, The Queen of air and darkness Begins to shrill and cry, `O young man, O my slayer To-morrow you shall die.' O Queen of air and darkness I think 'tis truth you say, And I shall die to-morrow; But you shall die to-day.

The Grizzly Bear is huge and wild; He has devoured the infant child. The infant child is not aware It has been eaten by a bear." "Infant Innocence

A stranger and afraid in a world I never made.

Oh, God will save her, fear you not: Be you the men you've been, Get you the sons your fathers got, And God will save the Queen.

I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are fluttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. O never fear, lads, naught's to dread, Look not left nor right: In all the endless road you tread There's nothing but the night.

Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.

The mother says to her daughter: The heart is an island. To reach it, You must cross salt water. This is what the daughter fears: That joy, like sorrow, Must be reached by shipwreck, Tossed on the flotsam of tears.

Once men imagine a danger they soon turn it into a reality.

Compelled respect always implies fear.

Goodness than depends on fear of hell or fear of the policeman or fear of punishment is not goodness at all - it is simply cowardice. Goodness than depends on hope of reward or hope of praise or hope of heaven depends on bribery.

He [Homer Lane] says much that the student in training college does not learn: the lesson that one must go deep, seek motives, approve, live with children without insisting on dignity or respect — which both generally imply fear.

If a parent is content with a child who has had his spirit completely broken by fear, then, for such a parent, punishment succeeds.