Quotes About Fear

And God said come to the edge. I can't. I'm afraid. Come to the edge. I can't. I'll fall Come to the edge. I went to the edge and God pushed me…….and I flew.

Please let me go, I won't tell...

What are you afraid of, Lou?" "Afraid? I'm not afraid of anything," Lou

from - Your Life is Worth Living: If it be a terrible thing to fall into the hands of the living God,It is a more terrible thing to fall out of them.

To become a mother, I feared, was to relinquish your status as the protagonist of your own life. Your questions were answered, your freedom was gone, your path would calcify in front of you. And yet it still pulled at me. Being a professional explorer would become largely impossible if I had a child, but having a kid seemed in many ways like the wildest possible trip.

I had traveled across Asia for six months with a backpack when I was twenty-two. My mood on those exotic days in Katmandu and Da Nang alternated between euphoria and lonely terror. I had traveler's checks that I kept with my passport in a little sack that I wore under my T-shirt at all times, afraid that someone would snatch it and then I would be completely fucked.

Look at Grandma," my mother would say. "You never want to be dependent on a man." The fear of ending up like Tanya, cutting coupons in a one-room efficiency surrounded by strangers, made me vigilant like my parents, anxious that the poverty of our ancestors was always just one wrong move away.

To become a mother, I feared, was to relinquish your status as the protagonist of your own life.

But the danger that we invite into our lives can come in the most unthreatening shape, the

It was as if I were a little girl again, afraid of shadows in the stucco walls of our hallway; they looked like monsters—were monsters, to me in my rigid insomniac sentinel. But you can never tell with shadows. You have to be vigilant, always, because maybe you're crazy, but maybe you're right.

That is what we do each time we see someone who falls in love with evil strategies, until we hurl him into misery, so he may learn to fear the Gods.

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I have gained this by philosophy; I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

We must be neither cowardly nor rash but courageous.

Those who cannot bravely face danger are the slaves of their attackers.

Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms.

The man who shuns and fears everything and stands up to nothing becomes a coward; the man who is afraid of nothing at all, but marches up to every danger becomes foolhardy. Similarly the man who indulges in pleasure and refrains from none becomes licentious (akolastos); but if a man behaves like a boor (agroikos) and turns his back on every pleasure, he is a case of insensibility. Thus temperance and courage are destroyed by excess and deficiency and preserved by the mean.

A courageous person is one who faces fearful things as he ought and as reason directs for the sake of what is noble.

Nobody will be afraid who believes nothing can happen to him.

Tragedy, however, is an imitation not only of a complete action, but also of incidents arousing pity and fear.

All terrible things are more terrible if they give us no chance of retrieving a blunder—either no chance at all, or only one that depends on our enemies and not ourselves. Those things are also worse which we cannot, or cannot easily, help. Speaking generally, anything causes us to feel fear that when it happens to, or threatens, others causes us to feel pity.

To die to escape from poverty or love or anything painful is not the mark of a brave man, but rather of a cowrd; for it is softness to fly from what is troublesome, and such a man endures death not because it is noble but to fly from evil