Quotes About Fear

It was scary as hell when you considered everything together, but if you approached each thing individually, it was simple.

said Oswald Chambers, "is that when you fear God, you fear nothing else, whereas if you do not fear God, you fear everything else.

How we face death tells us a lot about how we'll face life.

Yes, yes sir—routine is worry's sly assassin.

People fear miracles because they fear being changed—though ignoring them will change you also.

is worry's sly assassin.

My sister, Swede, who often sees to the nub, offered this: People fear miracles because they fear being changed—though ignoring them will change you also.

Don't fear occasional ghosts. Every day my mind suggests two or three impossible things.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain." MARK TWAIN

Life is a four-letter word.

I came to believe it not true that the coward dies a thousand deaths, the brave man only one. I think it is the other way around: It is the brave who die a thousand deaths. For it is imagination, and not just conscience, which doth make cowards of us all. Those who do not know fear are not truly brave.

Hope is ambiguous, but fear is precious.

Shallow are the souls that have forgotten how to shudder.

È inutile, inoltre, imbarcarsi in una potenziale follia solo per evitare di essere gli ultimi a compierla.

The United States is not only the strongest, but also the most terrified country.

All men have a measure of cowardice in them. I learned that love of one's mates can overcome your fears. I learned that every survivor of this horror must try to live a good life because he lives for many men.

Johann Clement watched the blows fall. First there had been wild talk and then printed accusations and insinuations. Then came a boycott of Jewish business and professional people, then the public humiliations: beatings and beard pullings. Then came the night terror of the Brown Shirts. Then came the concentration camps. Gestapo, SS, SD, KRIPO, RSHA. Soon every family in Germany was under Nazi scrutiny, and the grip of tyranny tightened until the last croak of defiance strangled and died.

and the righteous cowed and the evil grew bold.

Su profesión le había enseñado a esconder el miedo, a mostrarse impasible ante las tragedias. El lado negro del mundo, sus penalidades y su miseria formaban parte del trabajo cotidiano.

They were the weary down there, the craggy-faced, knobby, leather-handed toilers rehearsing their own demise, yielding in pitiful weakness to the scythe of mystery kept poised a lifetime at their jugulars … too simple and too tired to protest … too frightened to seek the truth … succumbed in silence, for without it … what was there left to believe?

At times as he lay in bed listening to her breathing, a fear came over him that after marriage death was the next major event.

People expect good luck to follow bad luck, or they worry that bad will follow good.

A vivid example of such a change in social equilibrium occurred in the months after the attacks of September 11, 2001, when travelers, afraid to take airplanes, suddenly switched to cars. Their fear translated into about 1,000 more highway fatalities in that period than in the same period the year before—hidden casualties of the September 11 attack.24

We all hold dear the idea that we're the captain of our own soul, and we're in charge, and it's a very scary feeling when we're not. In fact, that's what psychosis is—the feeling of detachment from reality and that you're not in control, and that's a very frightening feeling for anyone.