Quotes About Fear

People can be so frightened of failing that they do nothing, or choose something so dull they have no chance of shining. - Molly

if there's one message that comes up again and again, it's 'Love conquers Fear.

el mundo occidental vive como si Dios no existiera», dice. «Creo que es verdad. La fragmentación, el miedo, la desorientación y el ir dando tumbos caracterizan a buena parte de nuestra sociedad».

Here was a man who was trapped in a thicket of fear and confusion, powerless to escape. Dante's verse captured the feeling of my own depression and anxiety precisely. Wild animals blocked the man's path at every turn. Suddenly the shade of a great poet of antiquity, Virgil, appears before the man and promises to show him the hard road to a good place—but first the man has to trust him.

How can we be sure of anything the tide changes. The wind that made the grain wave gently yesterday blows down the tress tomorrow. And the sea sends sailors crashing on the rocks, as easily as it guides them safely home. I love the sea but it doesn't make me less afraid of it I love you but I'm not always sure of what you are and how you feel.

And something inside the young man cracked. The small compartment in the back of his mind, where man closets his fears, ties them up, controls and commands them, broke open and they surged across brain and nerves and muscles—a nightmare flood in open rebellion.

This was what the Spartans had most dreaded for centuries. Now it came to pass.

All people suffer from the dread of death, but we are mostly troubled by the uncertainties of time and circumstance.

Life responds when we risk

The more we try to avoid an experience, the more we ensure its return.

I learned not to fear infinity, The far field, the windy cliffs of forever, The dying of time in the white light of tomorrow, The wheel turning away from itself, The sprawl of the wave, The on-coming water.

Put a philosopher in a cage of small bars of thin iron suspended at the top of the towers of Notre Dame de Paris, he will see for obvious reasons that it is impossible for him to fall, and yet (unless he is used to the roofer's trade) he will not be able to keep the vision of that height from frightening and astonishing him.

Set a plank between those two towers, of a size such as is needed for us to walk on it: there is no philosophical wisdom of such firmness as to give us the courage to walk on it as we would do if it was on the ground.

We love ghost stories not just because they explain what happens at the end of our lives but because they take us to the beginning, and we reconnect to our childhood, pleasurably. The deliciousness of mediated fear is a great attraction, one that many do not want to grow out of.

If you are afraid to take risks and continue to push yourself forward, then there will be some obstacles you will never overcome.

Fear keeps people from the risk associated with doing their best.

The scariest question is the one you don't want to hear the answer to.

He feared its potential to furnish a cause for endless war with Christian powers in the future. Captured, it would provide the centerpiece of the empire, "without it, or while it is as at present, nothing we have is safe, and we can hope for nothing additional.

There are no guarantees. But there is also nothing to fear. We come from oblivion when we are born. We return to oblivion when we die. The astonishing thing is this period of in-between.

Of what use is freedom of speech to those who fear to offend?

The world of the bored and especially the world of the frightened—the world of decadence—needs an ersatz type of spiritual adventure for the titillation of its inner life; and even more than that, it needs 'spiritual revolutions' in order to avoid real ones and to sidetrack demands for social change.

He] would have cried out in horror if the silence had not pressed like a weight that held him paralyzed.

He was without fear. We thought he was brave. He was, of course, psychopathic.

Did you see the frightened ones, Did you hear the falling bombs, Did you ever wonder why we had to run for shelter in the promise of a brave new world unfurlled beaneath the clear blue skies. Good bye blue skies.