Quotes About Fear

The only thing that ever scared him was finding out there was something he couldn't do, so he damn well made sure there was anything he couldn't.

I know, sweetheart. I wish I could take away your fear, but the only way I know to do it is to help you face it. I'd face it for you if I could.

Peter knew she was afraid. He ached to tell her that she didn't have to do anything, that he'd protect her from everything. Every instance of fear or pain she had tore him apart inside. She'd had months, but it was still new to him. He wanted to grieve with her for what she'd lost, let her know the utter terror he'd felt at the idea of her being gone from his life before she'd really fully entered it.

There is nothing more powerful and frightening than choice. It's the field on which courage and love are tested.

Fear crawled inside him. The anger that was so close to the surface ripped at him with rabid teeth, but he managed to rein back the reaction.

Samtidigt kan liberaliseringen av uppfostran slå över i rädsla för att lära ut normer, regler och begrepp som rätt och fel. Detta kan också vara destruktivt, även för den mentala utvecklingen, då det inte finns något för barnen att upptäcka, ingen moral att utforska och förstå.

Not without a shudder may the human hand reach into the mysterious urn of destiny.

The mountain cannot frighten one who was born on it.

Truth would not let herself be approached too closely by highwaymen; she wore one garment on top of another so that one doubted being able to find her body. How frightening if they had their way and saw that frightful ghost, the truth, before them.

A reader who seeks after truth might become a hypochondriac out of dread.

It is a natural human instinct to turn our fears into symbols, and destroy the symbols, in the hope that it will destroy the fear. It is a logic that keeps recurring throughout human history, from the Crusades to the witch hunts to the present day.

They wanted easy answers to complex fears.

Siempre hemos tenido miedo - me dijo-, pero a veces es más fuerte el amor a nuestros hijos que el miedo

We can't live like this!" I said. "You don't know how to be present! You are missing your life! You're afraid of missing out—that's why you are checking your screen all the time! By doing that, you are guaranteeing you are missing out! You are missing your one and only life! You can't see the things that are right in front of you, the things you have been longing to see since you were a little boy! None of these people can! Look at them!

Consider too, how deep the abyss between life and death; across this, my power can build a bridge, but it can never fill up the frightful chasm.

I più trascorrono la maggior parte del tempo lavorando per vivere, e quel po' di libertà che rimane loro li spaventa a tal punto che ricorrono a ogni mezzo per liberarsene. Oh destino degli uomini!

Superstition is the poetry of life.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

There is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.

The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.

There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.

Nothing is more dangerous than solitude.

Fortunately a human being can comprehend only a certain degree of unhappiness; anything beyond it destroys him or leaves him cold. There are situations in which fear and hope become one and the same, cancel one another out, and lose themselves in a dark insensateness. How else could we know the people we love best to be in continual danger and yet go on with our daily lives as usual?

There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing.