Quotes About Fear

Touch her," he vowed in a low voice, "and I'll feed you to the gators, piece by piece." Macon

Echo:The thing about love is you always end up losing it. Cora: Oh but what you miss if you wont take the chance.

She came into the room, carrying a kerosene lantern this time, and Steven couldn't help cringing when he thought of the damage that could do. But

Run! her mind screamed. Stay! her heart plead.

Th-they're following my tracks . . . ," and she could feel her breath being stolen from her body. She was going to die!

with the limb, joined the others, Lia gasped. The three men stood talking in low voices for several minutes, and then they drew closer, heads down, slowly following her muddy footprint trail. Lia breathed into the sat phone, "Th-they're following

Even men who use fear as their weapon can themselves be threatened. We all have something we don't want to lose.

Their work was undercover—yet their existence unconcealed. That is how fear works.

Why should the Nazis do anything to me? Just because I have a little lingerie shop in Nice and my name is Gustav Kohn? What interest can Hitler possibly have in me? Don't you think I ought to stay?

We rattled on, away from Les Mille, and we racked our brains as to where they could be taking us. To the Pyrenees? To one of the camps in the East Pyrenees? Or farther away toward the west? Maybe to Gurs, where our wives were?

In a great little book that he had the moral courage to publish during the First World War, Sigmund Freud traces physical heroism back to the fact that every man of intelligence knows that he must some day die, but that no man, in his innermost soul, ever believes in his own death.

People who have manifested the greatest physical courage, in actual fact, not seldom fail when it comes to showing a little moral courage.

An actual misfortune is almost always less painful to him than his fear of it, just as, of course, his actual experience of joys is almost always less stirring than his hopes and anticipations of them.

There is nothing the rabble fears more than intelligence. If they understood what is truly terrifying, they would fear ignorance.

The liberal judgment of Dreiser and James goes back of politics, goes back to the cultural assumptions that make politics. We are still haunted by a kind of political fear of the intellect which Tocqueville observed in us more than a century ago.

Life is filled with terrifying moments, and we cannot stop the onslaught of fear any more than we can hold back the wind. But we can always choose our response. The very winds that cause the eagle to soar later in life terrified it when it was an eaglet. Allow fear to drive you toward God.

Though she never moved, she was more alive than I. In the light of her beauty and strength, I realized what I had lost. Because of fear, I had forfeited strength, life, and beauty. I had lost a sense of my true self, and with that loss so much of what God wanted for me was yet unrealized.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

The very winds that cause the eagle to soar later in life terrified it when it was an eaglet.

But don't imagine that always brave translates to never afraid.

why worry about the monster beneath the bed when a very real bogeyman sleeps on top of it?

Because you and I are alike that way. We know monsters are real, and they don't all live under the bed.

Funny how you can fear change, even when already surrounded by the worst of the worst.

And I won't stand in a corner anymore. I will step up. I will become part of the world I live in, even when it's scary. Because life is scary, but it still beats the alternative.