Quotes About Fear

In his day, as is still often the case today, anything other than evident heterosexuality could destroy a public official. Acutely aware of the danger, Edgar overcompensated. Like several other public figures with a secret homosexual life, Edgar often behaved viciously toward fellow homosexuals.

They say that faint heart never won fair lady. It is amazing to me how fair ladies are won, so faint are often men's hearts!

He (The warden) was painfully afraid of a disagreement with any person in any subject....he felt horror at the thought of being made the subject of common gossip and public criticism.

He possessed the tact of becoming instantly intimate with women without giving rise to any fear of impertinence. He had about him somewhat of the propensities of a tame cat. It seemed quite natural that he should be petted, caressed, and treated with familiar good nature, and that in return he should purr, and be sleek and graceful, and above all never show his claws. Like other tame cats, however, he had his claws, and sometimes made them dangerous.

The fight has been going on since...dominion in this world has found itself capable of sustentation by the exercise of fear as to the world to come.

I know they will murder him," she said, "and then when it is too late they will find out what they have done!

Love cannot do all. Fear may do more. Fear acknowledges a superior. Love desires an equal. Love is to be created by benefits done, and means gratitude, which we all know to be weak. But hope, which refers itself to benefits to come, is of all our feelings the strongest.

It seemed, indeed, to Phineas that as Mrs. Low was buckled up in such triple armour that she feared nothing, she might have been less loud in expression her abhorrence of the enemies of the Church. If she feared nothing, why should she scream so loudly?

Oh, papa, what will he say to you? I don't think he can eat me, my dear; nor will he dare even to murder me. I daresay he would if he could.

If you are busy, another time will do as well," continued the bishop, whose courage, like Bob Acres', had oozed out now that he found himself on the ground of battle.

While she was at the deanery there sprung up a renewed friendship between her and Lizzie. It was, indeed, chiefly a one-sided friendship; for Lucy, who was quick and unconsciously capable of reading that book to which we alluded in a previous chapter, was somewhat afraid of the rich widow. And when Lizzie talked to her of their old childish days, and quoted poetry, and spoke of things romantic, — as she was much given to do, — Lucy felt that the metal did not ring true.

You never tried it, sir. I fear it, father; I fear that I may fail to teach myself to sit contented at Count Upsel's feet, and greet long years of gilded idleness with constant smiles.

Oh, I can't tell you. She looks like a beautiful animal that you are afraid to caress for fear it should bite you; — an animal that would be beautiful if its eyes were not so restless, and its teeth so sharp and so white.

menses and was often ill. Was she carrying his child?

But now what chance had she? At seventeen, Claire saw life stretching endlessly before her, arid and hopeless. As

Nuns evidently did not evoke the same primitive angry dread as monks.

Pues mi ser es bello pero espantoso. Y sólo es bello porque es espantoso.

Miedo al rechazo... Hermanito, voy a decirte algo, tal vez lo único que aprendí en mi corta vida. Si la cuerda no fuera delgada, no tendría gracia caminar por ella.

Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear. I've been a man, a woman, an old person, a little girl, I've been the crowds on the grand boulevards of the capital cities of the West, I've been the serene Buddha of the East, whose calm and wisdom we envy. I've known honor and dishonor, enthusiasm and exhaustion. ...I've been the sun and the moon, and everything because life is not enough.

If British planes appear, we duck. If American planes come over, everyone ducks. And if the Luftwaffe appears, nobody ducks.

As in all armies, it was not so much the fear of death as the fear of mutilation which preyed on minds. A German field hospital, or Feldlazarett, was little more than an amputation line. American doctors were horrified by the German army's tendency to cut off limbs without a moment's thought. A

Had she not earned freedom from turmoil? From fear and pain?

There was indeed fear in hoping

Fear, the devil's holy water