Quotes About Fear

To implant fear in the minds of children is a crime. If parents try to rule the child by fear, then fear rules the child.

Fie on it! Cowardice is worse than death!

Be silent!" shrieked the beldame. "I won't!" said Cap. "Because you see, if we are in for the horrible, I can beat you hollow at that!

You're afraid of everything. And I know it. And that's why you don't like me.

For above all the dread and uncertainty in which ignorant people lived like children in the dark – frightened of witches and wizards, of the Devil and evil spirits – above it all was the bright starlit sky of the new faith, showing them the way.

I hug him tightly. I can't imagine my life without you, Christian. I love you so much it frightens me." Me, too," he breathes. My life would be empty without you. I love you so much.

We dread the future only when we are not sure we can kill ourselves when we want to.

Why fear the nothing that is in store for us when it is no different from the nothing that preceded us?

Death destroys a man: the idea of Death saves him.

The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.

She loved him with too clear a vision to fear his cloudiness

It is the starved imagination, not the well-nourished, that is afraid.

Vashti was seized with the terrors of direct experience. She shrank back into the room, and the wall closed up again.

Let us discuss why poetry has lost the power of making men brave.

If you pass life by it's jolly well going to pass you by in the future. If you're frightened it's all right--that's no harm; fear is an emotion.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

She disliked confidences, for they might lead to self-knowledge and to that king of terrors—Light.

With his head on the fender and all his limbs relaxed, he felt almost as safe as he felt once when his mother killed a ghost in the passage by carrying him through it in her arms. There was no ghost now; he was frightened at reality; he was frightened at the splendors and horrors of the world.

Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.

Are Indians cowards? No, but they are bad starters and occasionally jib. Fear is everywhere; the British Raj rests on it.

At this she grew angry. 'I worship nothing!' she cried. 'I am most advanced. I don't think you irreligious, for there is no such thing as religion left. All the fear and the superstition that existed once have been destroyed by the Machine. I only meant that to find out a way of your own was----Besides, there is no new way out.

Both times it was loneliness, and the night, and panic afterwards.

Sei que morrerei um dia e não quero morrer, nem quero que tu morras. Se algum de nós partir, não resta nada para ambos. Não sei se chamas a isso puro e imaculado. - Sim, chamo. - Nesse caso, prefiro ser sujo - disse Maurice, após uma pausa.

They wished that they also knew Italian, for our phrases of approval and of amazement are so connected with little occasions that we fear to use them on great ones. We are obliged to become vaguely poetic, or to take refuge in Scriptural reminiscences.