Quotes About Fear

It's a curse—this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I did not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy... In other words, Scarlett, I am a coward.

Why be an ostrich?

He was so very large and male, and excessively male creatures always discomposed her.

She was less frightened also because life had taken on the quality of a dream, a dream too terrible to be real. It wasn't possible that she, Scarlett O'Hara, should be in such a predicament, with the danger of death about her every hour, every minute. It wasn't possible that the quiet tenor of life could have changed so completely in so short a time.

always save something to fear, even as you save something to love.

What a white livered, cowardly little bitch you are.

This can't be real. It can't be. It's a nightmare. I'll wake up and find it's all been a nightmare. I mustn't think of it now, or I'll begin screaming in front of all these people. I can't think of it now. I'll think later, when I can stand it - when I can't see his eyes.

Ho paura di morire e di andare all'inferno. - Se egli avesse riso, sarebbe morta. Ma Rhett non rise. - Siete in ottima salute, mi pare.. e forse l'inferno non c'è. - - C'è Rhett! Sapete benissimo che c'è!- - So che c'è; ma è qui, sulla terra. Non dopo che saremo morti. Dopo la morte non vi è nulla, Rossella. Il vostro inferno lo provate adesso. -

Child, it's a very bad thing for a woman to face the worst that can happen

When such thoughts came she did not pray hastily to God, telling Him she did not mean it. God did not frighten her any more.

But, Scarlett, you need kissing badly. That's what's wrong with you. All your beaux have respected you too much, though God knows why, or they have been too afraid of you to really do right by you. The result is that you are unendurably uppity. You should be kissed and by someone who knows how.

And now in this hour of greatest need, there was no one. It was incredible that she could be so completely alone, and frightened, and far from home.

You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

We're in a new world. We're in a world in which the possibility of terrorism, married up with technology, could make us very, very sorry that we didn't act.

The world is coming to an end in 1950.

We're smitten with technology. And we're afraid, like young lovers, that too much talking might spoil the romance. But it's time to talk.

The part that frightens the hell out of me is the goverment deciding where technology goes.

Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

For any new technology there is always controversy and there always some fear associated with it. I think that's just the price of being first sometimes.

My fear, is that we are becoming so dependent on technology that if it was all taken away for some reason, some big incident, that we are losing our ability to function without it.

Our fear of technology is really a fear of empowerment. We now have the ability to design the reality we live in, and we have to step up to the occasion.

I don't understand technology, and I'm very scared of it.

People who feared IBM were wrong, ... Technology is ever-changing.

Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology.