Quotes About Fear

On September 20, the New York Stock Exchange halted trading for ten days. Grant received emergency pleas for purchases of Treasury bonds to add liquidity to national banks, while Thomas Murphy, the former New York customs collector, wired: "Relief must come immediately or hundreds if not thousands of our best men will be ruined." Not since 1837 had such a spasm of fear flashed through Wall Street.

Rockefeller feared that other states might copy this precedent and hold him hostage.

Jack lacked the nerve to contest his terrifying, distant father.

He was also uncomfortable around illness, which served as an unpleasant reminder of his own mortality.

His constant nightmare was that he would promote dependence, sapping the Protestant work ethic.

Had Rockefeller not feared his own capacity for excess, he wouldn't have engaged in such strenuous introspection.

James Clark later told Ida Tarbell that he sold out only from fear of the SIC contract.

Senior must have feared that the stupendous weight of the fortune would crush his delicate son.

His insecurities only worsened as he had more to lose.

Frank must have feared that any published comments would dry up the loans from his brothers.

The two sides projected competing nightmares of what would happen if the other side prevailed.

As Rockefeller feared, the Duluth jury reached a verdict in favor of the Merritts, though it was overturned on appeal.

The hypercritical mother produced a son who was overly sensitive to criticism and suffered from a lifelong need for approval. One suspects that, in dealing with this querulous woman, George became an overly controlled personality and learned to master his temper and curb his tongue. It was the extreme self-control of a deeply emotional young man who feared the fatal vehemence of his own feelings, if left unchecked.

Her husband was not so brave as she.

As he abandoned his fearful attitude toward the press, he loosened up, as if liberated by the change.

Wherever you are, death will find you, even in the looming tower. O

It's a feeling—I'm going to die anyway, so I might as well risk this virus that I can't see, to speak about the virus of systemic racism that I can.

Being pool-trained, I'm used to seeing four sides and a bottom. When that clarity is removed I get nervous. I imagine things. Sharks, the slippery sides of large fish, shaggy pieces of sunken frigates, dark corroded iron, currents. I can swim along the shore, my usual stroke rolled and tipped by the waves, the ribbed sandy bottom wiggling beneath me, but eventually I get spooked by the open-ended horizon, the cloudy blue thought of that sheer drop-the continental shelf.

Lone women shouldn't stop in the middle of nowhere for giant unkempt strangers with duct tape on their faces.

It gives me some kind of chance to survive the night. How are those better odds? If you come back with me, you're guaranteed to survive the night. No, Reacher said. If I come back with you, I'm guaranteed to die of shame.

He had learned a long time ago that some things were worth being afraid of. And some things were not. Things that he had done before and survived did not justify fear. To be afraid of a survivable thing was irrational.

They had come for us in the night. Hey had come expecting a lot of blood. They had come with all their gear. Their rubber overshoes and their nylon bodysuits. Their knives, their hammer, their bag of nails. They had come to do a job on us, like they'd done on Morrison and his wife.

learned a long time ago that some things were worth being afraid of. And some things were not. Things that he had done before and survived did not justify fear. To be afraid of a survivable thing was irrational.

So like I said, what are you running from?" "From being like people, I guess.