Quotes About Fear

Know it or not, man treads between twin abysses a tightrope that has neither beginning nor end.

Don't follow it, I say. It leads only to squidgy death.

Sooner give a cobra a kiss, than a secret to a woman.

in man's inward lexicon, the phobias outnumber the philias a thousand to one!

people who run must have something to run from, and half the time it's not there and half the time, of course, it is; only you never know which is which

Are you afraid of chilli heat?' (Ni pa bu pa la?) is the customary warning for travellers on their way to Sichuan.

The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lions, either dead or behind bars; they fear religion when it breaks loose and begins to challenge their consciences.

He has mercy on those who fear Him, from generation to generation." Fear is here understood as filial, that is, a shrinking from hurting one who is loved. Such is the fear a son has for a devoted father and the fear a Christian has of Christ. Fear is here related to love.

Repentance is not concerned with consequences. This is what distinguishes it from remorse, which is inspired principally by fear of unpleasant consequences

two world wars in twenty-one years, and the universal dread of nuclear incineration. This time God has given us John Paul II

Le courage ne consiste pas à ne point être ému en face d'un danger, mais à surmonter son émotion: c'est pour cela qu'un enfant peut être aussi courageux qu'un homme.

y el gozo que le produjo esa mujer, le había permitido entender por que los hombres tenían miedo a la muerte CIEN AÑOS DE SOLEDAD

Horses frighten me as much as chickens do,' he said. 'That is too bad, because lack of communication with horses has impeded human progress,' said Abrenuncio. 'If we ever broke down the barriers, we could produce the centaur.

Arcadio found the formality of death rediculous. Death really did not matter to him but life did, and therefore the sensation he felt when they gave their decision was not a feeling of fear but of nostalgia.

not knowing what he was doing because he did not know where his feet were or where his head was, or whose feet or whose head, and feeling that he could no longer resist the glacial rumbling of his kidneys and the air of his intestines, and fear, and the bewildered anxiety to flee and at the same time stay forever in that exasperated silence and that fearful solitude.

Fiecare e st?pân pe propria-i moarte, iar singurul lucru pe care-l putem face, odat? sosit ceasul,este s?-i ajut?m pe oameni s? moar? f?r? team? È™i dureri.

Dice que si no le sacas la muela te pega un tiro. Sin apresurarse, con un movimiento extremadamente tranquilo, dejó de pedalear en la fresa, la retiró del sillón y abrió por completo la gaveta inferior de la mesa. Allí estaba el revólver. -Bueno -dijo-. Dile que venga a pegármelo.

And I though about people all over the world, having panic attacks. We all must, right? Even those with the soundest of mind must come face to face, sometimes, with the fact that we will die one day. What varies is how we cope with it.

Silent, she thought that poverty was like a sickness you put to sleep inside you, and it didn't hurt too much as long as you didn't move. You grew used to it, you ended up not paying much attention to it as long as you stayed tucked away with it in the dark; but when you took the notion of going out with it in daylight, it became frightening to the sight, so ugly you could not expose it to the sun.

Lucien?" "Yes, Alice?" Her heart was pounding, but she willed herself to muster the courage to reach out to him— unpredictable, dangerous as he was. "I think it's real.

He -it- was a specter! I stepped back, stunned.

Ogres weren't dangerous only because of their size and their cruelty. They knew your secrets just by looking at you, and they used their knowledge.

i wasnt frightened of it. The gray death wasn't a monster or a spider i could see and shiver over. It was invisible. If I caught it would be somewhere within me and while the outside world was full of danger I knew my interior I was certain I could oust an intruder there.

Admat, don't kill me! Don't be wrathful. Don't exist!