Quotes About Fear

And sure enough, Trump's win set off a cluster bomb of cognitive dissonance the likes of which history rarely sees. To untrained observers—voters and pundits alike—the public reaction looked like a combination of anger, disappointment, fear, and shock. But to trained persuaders, it was a front-row seat to a show of cognitive dissonance so pure and so deep that it was, frankly, beautiful.

You know, men do nearly all die laughing, because they know death is very terrible, and a thing to be forgotten till after it has come. T. E. LAWRENCE, IN A LETTER TO HIS MOTHER, 1916

and so he could show me how much my life was controlled by fear.

We are transformed from slaves to sons and daughters, from followers of God's law to members of his faithful family, from people who fear to children who love.

Is cowardice a habit? And if it is, am I brave enough to break it?

What do we do when it gets dark?

Because there was something to be said for going through life in a fog. In the fog, you couldn't see the monsters coming.

Never have them, Reg. I swear, you're never free. You LOVE them too much. It's like a vital organ walked out of your body and is out there waving hi to people and you fear for it all day, EVERY day, because if something happened to it...

Run, Bruce! Run from the truth! Run like you always have…but when you feel that prickling on the back of your neck, know that I'm coming for you! Reaching you from the other side of your reflection!

But Dixon had once been a soldier. He knew that courage was not the absence of fear but the ability to carry on with dignity in spite of it.

were going to be released, for fear of compromising Special

It's not the traveling that takes courage Tally. I've done much longer trips on my own. It's leaving home.

Not everything made you stronger. It was possible to survive, yet still be crippled for your trouble. Sometimes it was okay to run away, to skip the test, to chicken out. Or at least to get some help.

I love my virginity to the apocalypse.

But it's always taking a risk, when you ... kiss someone new.

No matter how far from the war we run, it always catches up with us.

How great a spectacle! But that, I fear, Is all it is.

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. What a thing our human destiny is!

in pretending to be brave, to stiffen the others' courage, I found my own courage.

bazen bir an için kalk?p gitme, ba?lar? koparma cesaretini buluyorum kendimde, ke?ke nereye gidece?imi bilsem. herhalde giderdim.

Tanr?sal ruhlar?n dola?t??? bu dudaklara bir öpücük kondurmaya hiçbir zaman cesaret etmeyece?im!

Specia umana se poarta pretutindeni la fel. Majoritatea oamenilor isi intrebuinteaza cea mai mare parte din timp ca sa traiasca si putina libertate care le mai ramane ii inspaimanta atat de tare, incat fac tot ce le sta in putinta ca sa scape de dansa. O, destin al omului!

Nicht die große, seltne Not der Welt, diese Fluten, die eure Dörfer wegspülen, diese Erdbeben, die eure Städte verschlingen, rühren mich; mir untergräbt das Herz die verzehrende Kraft, die in dem All der Natur verborgen liegt; die nichts gebildet hat, das nicht seinen Nachbar, nicht sich selbst zerstörte. Und so taumle ich beängstigt. Himmel und Erde und ihre webenden Kräfte um mich her: ich sehe nichts als ein ewig verschlingendes, ewig wiederkäuendes Ungeheuer.

?nsan asl?nda karma??k bir varl?k de?il. Ço?unlu?u zaman?n büyük bir bölümünü ya?amak için kullan?yor, geriye kalan? sie, özgür olduklar? küçük zaman diliminden öyle korkuyor ki, ondan kurtulman?n her türlü yolunu deniyor. ??te insan?n de?i?mez yazg?s?!