Quotes About Fear

For so many years I feared that he would try to murder me, but in the end it was I who would have murdered him. He may burn my book if he chooses.) Third

In the old times, the lords of this world feared no one but their own people, and to defend themselves against them built a great fortress on a hilltop to the north of the city...Many of the people were angry at the building of that citadel, holding it to be their right to slay their lords without hindrance if they so desired.

Then he was gone, and the girl lay hugging her child, looking through the leaves at the bright band of The Waterfall and the broad seas and scattered storms of sisterworld. Then her eyes closed, and she could pull sisterworld from the tree. She put the blue rind to her lips and tasted sweetness. Then she woke again, the sweet juice still in her mouth. Someone was bending over her, and for a moment she was afraid.

Death is nothing, and for that reason you must fear it.

You think whatever is wrong with you is contagious, then?' ... 'Yes, but you hae it already. You caught it from your mother. Death.

as a woman alone in a large house refrains from looking into mirrors, and instead busies herself with trivial errands, so that she may catch no glimpse of the thing whose feet she hears at times on the stairs.

This unfocused terror, this faceless menace of the night, was the earliest of all my childhood fears; and as such, now that childhood was behind me, it had the homey quality of all childhood things when we are fully grown.

Death is nothing, and that's why you should fear it.

She would think I was an idiot, and I knew it. Only if I had not whistled, for the rest of my life I would remember that moment and how I had wanted to whistle but had not had the guts.

the street still so hot that the dogs would not bark for fear of fainting

I'd spent years saving for a future that was never coming to protect myself from a past that had already happened.

Most of us are so enthralled with the scary tigers in our minds--our stories of loneliness, rejection, grief--that we don't realize they are in the past. They can't hurt us anymore.

You can deal with the loneliness one night at a time. But what you can't deal with is the idea of loneliness, the fear of it.

For naturally a beast desires to flee From any enemy that he may see, Though never yet he's clapped on such his eye.

Quién ha vivido un solo día en completa felicidad, sin verse sacudido por la conciencia, la ira, el deseo, la envidia, el orgullo, la pasión, el daño o por alguna especie de temor?

And Solomon says, 'Fortunate is the man who is in dread of all, because he who possesses a fearless heart and a strong body will presume too much, and misfortune shall befall him.

For Solomon says, 'He who loves peril shall be vanquished by peril.

Now let us touch on the vice of Flattery, which comes not gladly from the heart, but from fear or greed. Flattery is generally insincere praise. Flatterers be the Devil's nurses, who nourish his children with the milk of adulation.

We are so dependent on luck, good and bad. I think of those men and women—cases faintly parallel to mine—who live in one room and eat poorly and lie in bed, since their incomes are too small for any marked activity. Their lives would be unbearable were it not for their hopes of good luck and fears of bad. They have, in fact, little of either; but illusion magnifies what there is.

Ich wage kaum die Hände auszustrecken, wie in einem engen Spiegelzimmer, aus Furcht überall anzustoßen, daß die schönen Figuren in Scherben auf dem Boden lägen und ich vor der kahlen, nackten Wand stünde.

It is hard to see why we should not turn round and mistrust this very mistrust. Should we not be concerned as to whether this fear of error is not just the error itself?

daß diese Furcht zu irren schon der Irrtum selbst ist.

It was a good thing I wasn't afraid, because I was scared stiff.

This nigger girl scared for white bwana.