Quotes About Fear

Uncertainty is the only certainty there is, and knowing how to live with insecurity is the only security.

I think life has to get bigger to make death seem smaller.

Biography is one of the new terrors of death.

I think, however, that so long as our present economic and national systems continue, scientific research has little to fear.

Revelation is purposive. Its end is not simply divine self-display, but the overcoming of human opposition, alienation and pride, and their replacement by knowledge, love and fear of God. In short: revelation is reconciliation.

revelation is the self-presentation of the triune God, the free work of sovereign mercy in which God wills, establishes and perfects saving fellowship with himself in which humankind comes to know, love and fear him above all things.

This place. It was the noise that impressed me first of all. A terrible racket, yells and whistles, hoots of laughter, arguments, sobs. But there are moments of stillness, too, as if a great fear, or a great sadness, has fallen suddenly, striking us all speechless. The air stands motionless in the corridors, like stagnant water.

What I was afraid of was my own grief, the weight of it, the ineluctable corrosive force of it, and the stark awareness I had of being, for the first time in my life, entirely alone, a Crusoe shipwrecked and stranded in the limitless wastes of a boundless and indifferent ocean.

Marti wasn't the type to give up without a fight, especially not if she was very afraid - some people are like that. They lean into the fear.

Women thought me charmingly shy, and sometimes stopped at nothing to "penetrate the disdainful shell of my fear," as one of their number put it. Often as not, it was they who got penetrated.

not every boy thrown to the wolves becomes a hero.

Unexplained noises are best left unexplained.

He invented the Fuse Box Dwarf, a little man who popped out at you from behind the paint cans in the cellarway and screamed, "Dreeb! Dreeb! I am the Fuse Box Dwarf!" Lewis was not scared by the little man, and he felt that those who scream "Dreeb" are more to be pitied than censured.

When you are hiding something, you get the feeling that every other secret is connected to your secret. Lewis couldn't challenge anyone for fear of being exposed himself.

All publicity works upon anxiety. The sum of everything is money, to get money is to overcome anxiety. Alternatively the anxiety on which publicity plays is the fear that having nothing you will be nothing.

The collaboration which sometimes follows is seldom based on good will: usually on desire, rage, fear, pity or longing. The modern illusion concerning painting (which post-modernism has done nothing to correct) is that the artist is the creator. Rather he is a reciever. What seems like creaton is the act of giving form to what he has recieved.

geçmiÅŸ hiçbir zaman olduÄŸu yerde durup yeniden keÅŸfedilmeyi, ayn?yla, olduÄŸu gibi tan?nmay? beklemez. tarih her zaman belli bir ÅŸimdi'yle onun geçmiÅŸi aras?ndaki iliÅŸkiyi kurar. demek ki ÅŸimdi'den korkmak eskiyi bulandirmaya yol aç?yor. geçmiÅŸ içinde yaÅŸanacak bir ÅŸey deÄŸildir.

All publicity works upon anxiety.

History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past

I was scared of one thing after another. I still am. Naturally. How could it be otherwise? You can either be fearless or you can be free, you can't be both.

I haven't lost a battle yet but I am tensefor the first losing.

The trouble with this country is that a man can live his entire life without knowing whether or not he is a coward.

True honor is an outflow from a heart that fears God.

It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.