Quotes about fear
fear worry imagination
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
fear
He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong.
fear boredom acting
I have a fear of being boring. Christian Bale
fear guilt pay
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt. George Sewell
fear mean thinking
Sometimes they threaten you with something - something you can't stand up to, can't even think about. And then you say, Don't do it to me, do it to somebody else, do it to So-and-so. And perhaps you might pretend, afterwards, that it was only a trick and that you just said it to make them stop and didn't mean it. But that isn't true. At the time when it happens you do mean it. You think there's no other way of saving yourself, and you're quite ready to save yourself that way. You WANT it to happen to the other person. You don't give a damn what they suffer. All you care is yourself. George Orwell
fear war atheism
War is war. The only good human being is a dead one. George Orwell
fear struggle class
We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose. George Orwell
fear ignorance prejudice
Ignorance and prejudice are the ballast of our ship of state - however, ships without ballast are not seaworthy and cannot sail in the tempests, nor reach a safe harbor. George Orwell
fear black sin
His cloak was his crowning glory; sable, thick and black and soft as sin. George R. R. Martin
fear cutting ice
Fear cuts deeper than swords. George R. R. Martin
fear men losing
The man who fears losing has already lost. George R. R. Martin
fear father what-matters
There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it. George R. R. Martin
fear winter wind
A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things. George R. R. Martin
fear fall thinking
There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us shudder; but if they happen to fall on us, we find ourselves stronger than we imagined, we grapple with our ill luck, and behave better than we expected we should. Jean de la Bruyere
fear dark clouds
The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures. Garth Nix
fear thinking doors
But think of how much worse it would be to sit here, not knowing. Until the Dead choke the Ratterlin and Hedge walks across the dry bed of the river to batter down the door. Garth Nix
fear enemy logic
Fear is the enemy of logic. Frank Sinatra
fear boredom risk
I never go to where's a risk. I'm frightened of dangers down to boredom. Fernando Pessoa
fearless call-me
They call me Fearless Felix. Felix Baumgartner
fear security
There can be no security where there is fear. Felix Frankfurter
fear littles stage
A little bit of stage fright, then I'm ready. Faith Hill
fear men care
The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care. F. H. Bradley
fear war men
The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to rot in womanish peace Ezra Pound
fear wind feet
See, they return; ah, see the tentative Movements, and the slow feet, The trouble in the pace and the uncertain Wavering! See, they return, one, and by one, With fear, as half-awakened; As if the snow should hesitate And murmur in the wind, and half turn back; Ezra Pound
fear lying believe
Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some for love of slaughter, in imagination, learning later . . . some in fear, learning love of slaughter; Died some, pro patria, non "dulce" non "et decor" . walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, the unbelieving came home, home to a lie. Ezra Pound
fear writing optimistic
It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse. Ezra Pound
fear heart humble
Humility responds to God's will-to the fear of His judgments and to the needs of those around us. To the proud, the applause of the world rings in their ears; to the humble, the applause of heaven warms their hearts. Someone has said, "Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man." Ezra Taft Benson
fear pride men
Pride is characterized by "What do I want out of life?" rather than by "What would God have me do with my life?" It is self-will as opposed to God's will. It is the fear of man over the fear of God. Ezra Taft Benson
fear men promise
A man who has been in danger, When he comes out of it forgets his fears, And sometimes he forgets his promises. Euripides
fear parenting grieving
The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears. Francis Bacon
fear mind desire
It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear. Francis Bacon
fear
Sometimes you must suffer through something to defeat your fear of it. Joyce Meyer
fears feeling love proud tears
Tears and fears and feeling proud to say 'I love you' right out loud. Joni Mitchell