Quotes About Fear

BRAVE To be brave is to behave bravely when your heart is faint. So you can be really brave only when you really ain't.

War is sweet to those who have no experience of it. But the experienced man trembles exceedingly in his heart at its approach.

You can only really open yourself up so far to someone that you don't truly love - you keep something back when you know somewhere in your gut that this relationship is going to be forever.

Best way to deal with fear is to confront it.

In the beginning we were a group of nine. Three are gone, dead. There are six of us left. They are hunting us, and they won't stop until they've killed us all. I am Number Four. I know that I am next.

Injustice is censured because the censures are afraid of suffering, and not from any fear which they have of doing injustice.

No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Death is not the worst than can happen to men.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen.

Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of trees fall off, the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled, hives of bees die, even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust, and a horrible smell fills the air; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison.

There were some so afraid of death that they prayed for death.

Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.

Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well.

The superstitious man wishes he did not believe in gods, as the atheist does not, but fears to disbelieve in them.

Pile up gold, heap up silver, build covered walks, fill your house with slaves and the town with debtors, unless you lay to rest the passions of the soul, and put a curb on your insatiable desires, and rid yourself of fear and anxiety, you are but pouring out wine for a man in a fever, and giving honey to a man who is bilious, and laying out a sumptuous banquet for people who are suffering from dysentery

Best rear no lion in your state, 'tis true; But treat him like a lion if you do.

Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

A calling is not something you know, it's something you grow into, through trials and mistakes... Attack your fears, rather than shy away from them. Bring what you do in alignment with who you are...Failure's hard, but success at the wrong thing can lock you in forever.

The randomness of cancer is often very hard to accept.

Most people come to fear not death itself, but the many terrible ways of dying.

The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.