Quotes About Fear

Beth at last touched the great instrument, and straightway forgot her fear, herself, and everything else but the unspeakable delight which the music gave her, for it was like the voice of a beloved friend.

El amor desecha el temor, y la gratitud vence el orgullo.

Fearing to ask any more advice, she did her best alone, and discovered that something more than energy and good-will is necessary to make a cook.

I never made any plans about what I'd do when I grew up. I never thought of being married, as you all did. I couldn't seem to imagine myself anything but stupid little Beth, trotting about at home, of no use anywhere but there. I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven.

El cariño destierra el temor y la gratitud vence al orgullo.

L'affetto bandisce il timore e la gratitudine può debellare l'orgoglio.

It was as if her own conscience had taken human shape, for his voice eloquently uttered the fears, the feelings that had filled her heart that night. She had wavered, for love was sweet and life looked desolate without it; but the example of this man who asked nothing for himself and was as true to his own soul as he would have her to hers, touched and inspired her with a brave desire to be worthy his respect, to emulate his virtue.

a senhora não sabe, não pode saber como é ruim! é como se eu pudesse fazer qualquer coisa quando estou com raiva. fico tão selvagem que poderia ferir qualquer pessoa e ainda gostar disso. temo fazer algo horrível um dia, e estragar minha vida, e fazer com que todos me odeiem.

Jo couldn't even lose her heart in a decorous manner, but sternly tried to quench her feelings; and, failing to do so, led a somewhat agitated life. She was mortally afraid of being laughed at for surrendering

Utter his name again and I will take you at your word. In defending me he will forget he is a priest and teach you to respect and fear him as you never feared and respected man before. Say what you have to say and go.

There is something of a congruence here between my grandfather's terror propelling him across an ocean to America and mine and my husband's rushing us into a three-room apartment in Jersey City. In fact, each of my moves is remotely connected to feeling my life or well-being was threatened.

He was a bad thing waiting for a worse thing to happen.

After a while, I asked who was in charge. Phil said God. I said that was the most terrifying thing I'd ever heard and he said, Yeah, me too. That's why I bought the Bushmaster.

Only when you are secure enough not to fear immediate survival can you display creative intelligence in anything you do.

Now you listen to me, Joe. You will not badger or harrass me. You will leave me to think the way I want to think, here. I have to heal any way I can. You will stop asking questions and you will not give me any worry. You will not go after him. You will not terrify me, Joe. I've had enough fear for my whole life. You will not add to my fear. You will not add to my sorrows. You will not be part of this.

I always find that I have to guard myself because of a fear that I will sound soft and foolish

I shudder to think of what I should have been if I had remained in Richford all my life," he later confided.

He later exhibited an unacknowledged dread of death, and Eliza was perhaps the first to intuit it.

In Heaven's name, don't make this letter public, since, were you to do so, I fear my brethren of the Methodist Church might fear I had so far fallen from grace as to leave no hope of recovery.

Somewhat paranoid to begin with, he assumed every tradesman was an extortion artist

Exploiting this fear, Rockefeller worked out a clever bargain with the Erie Railroad

Rockefeller asserted that he was less afraid of exposing misbehavior by talking to the press than of inadvertently spilling trade secrets.

Perhaps the true legacy of his boyhood was an equivocal one: he came to detest the tyranny embodied by the planters and their authoritarian rule, while also fearing the potential uprisings of the disaffected slaves. The twin specters of despotism and anarchy were to haunt him for the rest of his life.

He feared that Margaret would become isolated from the rest of the family and was haunted by fears that she would be seduced by a continental fortune hunter.