Quotes About Fear

We have no reason to be mistrustful of our world, for it is not against us. If it holds terrors they are our terrors.

We have no reason to be mistrustful of our world... If it holds terrors they are our terrors.

But on the other hand, I am very concerned when I imagine how strangled and cut off you currently live, afraid of touching anything that is filled with memories and what is not filled with memories?). You will freeze in place if you remain this way. You must not, dear. You have to move. You have to return to his things. You have to touch with your hands his things, which through their manifold relations and affinity are after all also yours.

Perhaps everything fearful is basically helplessness that seeks our help.

Perhaps everything terrifying is deep down a helpless thing that needs our help.

Piensas de veras que tanto le habría estremecido tu leve paso, que huye como brisa de primavera? Si, asustasteis su corazón: pero más viejos terrores se desencadenaron en él al choque de ese contacto.

Tehlike, emniyette olmaktan daha güvenli.

Perhaps everything terrifying is at bottom the helplessness that seeks our help.

Si ahora se acercara el arcángel, el peligroso, detrás de las estrellas, si bajara dando un paso sólo y viniendo de allí: hacia arriba latiendo, nuestro propio corazón nos mataría. ¿Quién sois?

Von deinen Sinnen hinausgesandt, geh bis an deiner Sehnsucht Rand; gieb mir Gewand. Hinter den Dingen wachse als Brand, dass ihre Schatten, ausgespannt, immer mich ganz bedecken. Lass dir Alles geschehn: Schönheit und Schrecken. Man muss nur gehn: Kein Gefühl ist das fernste.

So now they're shaking in their boots and looking for someone to give them the answer they want to hear. Not the truth, but some lie that will protect them from the truth

Live with your head in the lion's mouth.

I ran away into the dark, laughing so hard I feared I might rupture myself.

I knew that they were about to attack the man and I was both afraid and angry, repelled and fascinated. I both wanted it and feared the consequences, was outraged and angered at what I saw and yet surged with fear; not for the man or of the consequences of an attack, but of what the sight of violence might release in me. And beneath it all there boiled up all the shock-absorbing phrases that I had learned all my life. I seemed to totter on the edge of a great dark hole.

Well, I was and yet I was invisible, that was the fundamental contradiction. I was and yet I was unseen. It was frightening and as I sat there I sensed another frightening world of possibilities.

Fear always springs from ignorance.

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

In skating over thin ice, our safety is in our speed.

The sinew and heart of man seem to be drawn out, and we are become timorous desponding whimperers. We are afraid of truth, afraid of fortune, afraid of death, and afraid of each other.

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, Always do what you are afraid to do.

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

It is not the length of life, but the depth of life. He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.