Quotes About Fear

Femeia aceasta este într-adev?r frumoas?, dar frumoas? ca o moart?, frumoas? ca o umbr?, frumoas? ca vedeniile ce È›i se arat? în vis; tocmai de aceea mi se pare c-am v?zut-o în vis... È™i am avut vreo dou?-trei visuri însp?imânt?toare în viaÈ›a mea, de care când îmi amintesc îmi înghea?? sângele în vine

There are other things to fear, Monsieur,' Villefort said, 'apart from death, old age and madness. For example, apoplexy, that lightning bolt which strikes you down without destroying you, yet after which all is finished. You are still yourself, but you are no longer yourself: from a near-angel like Ariel you have become a dull mass which, like Caliban, is close to the beasts. As I said, in human language, this is quite simply called an apoplexy or stroke.

I have always been more afraid of a pen, a bottle of ink and a sheet of paper than of a sword or a pistol.

Non temo nulla, Bentivoglio!

Bir tüy, bir mürekkep hokkas? ve bir kâ??t beni her zaman bir k?l?çtan ya da tabancadan daha çok korkutmuÅŸtur.

O puÈ™c? fusese mult? vreme visul tân?rului. În toate ??rile unde independenÈ›a ia locul libert??ii, prima nevoie pe care orice inim? tare, orice caracter puternic o încearc? e aceea a unei arme care asigur? totdeauna atacul È™i ap?rarea È™i care, f?cându-l pe acela ce o poart? cumplit, îl face, deseori, È™i temut.

Era venuto il momento di fissare lo sguardo sullo spettro implacabile che cammina a fianco di ogni creatura umana e che a ogni pulsazione del cuore le grida: Tu morrai

La terreur est une chose si peu raisonnée qu'elle s'excite ou se calme sans motifs plausibles.

Il coraggio incute rispetto anche ai nemici

Le besoin de sécurité asphyxie l'âme.

Tu mais tarde não obedecerás aos teus medos.

On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.

The prestige of royal power has evaporated, but the majesty of the law has failed to take its place. People nowadays despise authority yet still fear it, and fear extracts from them more than they previously gave out of respect and love.

Durability is one of the chief elements of strength. Nothing is either loved or feared but that which is likely to endure.

Egotism fears its own self.

What one must fear, moreover, is not so much the sight of the immorality of the great as that of immorality leading to greatness.

Among all beings, man alone shows a natural distaste for existence and an immense desire to exist: he scorns life and fears nothingness. These different instincts constantly push his soul toward the contemplation of another world, and it is religion that leads him there. So religion is only a particular form of hope, and it is as natural to the human heart as hope itself.u

Le despotisme, qui, de nature, est craintif, voit dans l'isolement des hommes le gage le plus certain de sa propre durée, et il met d'ordinaire tous ses soins à les isoler. Il n'est pas de vice du cÅ"ur humain qui lui agrée autant que l'égoïsme : un despote pardonne aisément aux gouvernés de ne point l'aimer, pourvu qu'ils ne s'aiment pas entre eux.

The wealthy members of the community [in America] entertain a hearty distaste to the democratic institutions of their country. The populace is at once the object of their scorn and of their fears.

Rather, he accepted democracy as an objective fact and wanted to address positive and negative lessons the French people could learn from the American example. He wrote, "I sought there the image of democracy itself, with its inclinations, its character, its prejudices, and its passions, in order to learn what we have to fear or to hope from its progress."5

The dominant problem with parenting in our society isn't permissiveness, but the fear of permissiveness. We're so worried about spoiling kids that we often end up over controlling them.

Nobody adopts antisocial behavior unless they fear that they will fail if they remain on the social side of life.

Caminando sobre nuestras cuerdas flojas, llevamos nuestros miedos y fijaciones como armas desnudas, y los usamos tan rápida y mortalmente como Billy the kid usaba su revólver»

No pasa nada querido –susurro Gabby – No tengas miedo. Estas acostumbrado a arrebatar las cosas, eso es todo. Nadie te dio nunca nada»