Quotes About Fear

When a man knows he is to be hanged in the morning, it concentrates his mind wonderfully.

AGHAST  (AGHA'ST)   adj.[either the participle of agaze,(see AGAZE)  and then to be written agazed, or agast,or from a and gast, a ghost, which the present orthography favours; perhaps they were originally different words.]Struck with horrour, as

Give with thy trumpet a loud note to Troy,Thou dreadful Ajax; that th' appalled airMay pierce the head of thy great combatant.Shakesp. The house of peers was somewhat appalled at this alarum; but took time to consider of it till next day.Clarendon. Does neither rage inflame, nor fear appal,Nor the black fear of death that saddens all.Pope.

Tender minds should not receive early impressions of goblins, spectres, and apparitions, wherewith maids fright them into compliance.Locke.

It is the fate of those who toil at the lower employments of life, to be rather driven by the fear of evil, than attracted by the prospect of good;

Why should the guiltless tremble so, when the guilty can possess their minds in peace?

God direct you according to them, and comfort you! All my fear was (and that more particularly for some of the last past months) that I should have been the mournful survivor. In a very few moments all my sufferings will be over; and God give you, when you come to this unavoidable period of all human vanity, the same happy prospects that are now opening to me! O Sir, believe me, all worldly joys are now nothing; less than nothing:

The thing is, said Gilheeny, is that we live in constant fear of our lives. It makes the blood pressure elevate like an Arabian geyser, and the tension headaches we get would knock the balls off a bull with the twist in the maxillary sinuses themselves.

This was the bottomless panic at the lost smooth cheek of childhood, at no longer being young.

Paranoia's OK, said Berry, it's just a more primitive defense. If you think someone's watching you, you think you're not alone.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.

And now this spell was snapt: once more I viewed the ocean green, And look'd far forth, yet little saw Of what had else been seen - Like one that on a lonesome road Doth walk in fear and dread, And having once turn'd round, walks on And turns no more his head; Because he knows a frightful fiend Doth close behind him tread.

Tissez un triple cercle autour de lui, et fermez les yeux de terreur sacrée : Car il s'est nourri de miellée, et a bu le lait du Paradis.

Real love cannot be cultivated or protected in an environment of fear. Fear suffocates the love that may be present and sabotages the pursuit of love elsewhere. If you want to create love in your life, you must look at your motivations and the feelings they create. Your intention of fear must be replaced by an intention of trust and love.

Dodge, I'm going to tell you something. Judging by your tone, you're going to have to kill me after. Frankly, I'd just as soon not known.

While we try to find out what happened to her, there's something you should keep in mind." Jess arched a brow. "Oh?" "If Hayes Bannock has your wife, you probably top his shit list. Be afraid.

If Hayes Bannock has your wife, you probably top his shit list. Be afraid.

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And all the while, I was thinking, This cannot be happening. Not to me. I, Lilly Martin, cannot be cowering in a corner of my own bedroom trying to protect myself from my husband. "This happens to people you read about in the newspaper, I thought. Poor or ignorant or otherwise disadvantaged people who grew up in violent homes and continue the cycle.

Many have doubts; few voice them. The silent tended to quickly condemn those honest few who air misgivings dormant deep within us all.

What they had most feared had happened, and yet what lay ahead was a wonderful plan they could not have imagined on their own. God had things well under control.

Indeed, the exigencies of female tenderness are such as virtually to guarantee the man's absolution by the woman--not on her terms, but on his. Moreover, the man's confession of fear or failure tends to mystify the woman's understanding not only of the power dimensions of the relationship between herself and this particular man, but of the relations of power between men and women in general.

Nonetheless, it left him with a terrible doubt, a fear that inhabited every scene.

You have to understand, it's how we are here. It's like we're all asleep. We grow up, we fall asleep, and then the horrors that scared us before - we're doing them. We're the monsters in the nightmare.