Quotes about fear
fear awful life-is
The awful importance of this life is that it determines eternity. William Barclay
fear mirrors imagination
Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the craziest and most unlikely possibilities. What is most absurd suddenly seems the most probable. Stefan Zweig
fear may providence
Fear not, but trust in Providence, Wherever thou may'st be. Thomas Haynes Bayly
fear night pilots
Oh, pilot! 'tis a fearful night, There's danger on the deep.
fear mind desire
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. Thomas Hobbes
fear men lasting
The original of all great and lasting societies consisted not in the mutual good will men had toward each other, but in the mutual fear they had of each other.
fear religion leviathan
Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
fear failure failing
They fail, and they alone, who have not striven. Thomas Bailey Aldrich
fear night laughing
The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had. Victor Hugo
fear spirit given
God has not given us the spirit of fear. That comes from the adversary. Gordon B. Hinckley
fear men imagination
Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination. Geraldine Brooks
fear lying adventure
Don't be afraid to expand yourself, to step out of your comfort zone. That's where the joy and the adventure lie. Herbie Hancock
fear infidelity
The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad. Herbert Spencer
fear healing ignorance
Ignorance is the parent of fear. Herman Melville
fear men coward
An utterly fearless man is a far more dangerous comrade than a coward.
fear hate men
But, commonly, men are as much afraid of love as of hate. Henry David Thoreau
fear men righteous-man
We are ashamed of our fear; for we know that a righteous man would not suspect danger nor incur any. Wherever a man feels fear, there is an avenger.
fearless essentials divine
One should be always on the trail of one's own deepest nature. For it is the fearless living out of your own essential nature that connects you to the Divine.
fear truth expression
I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced.
fear lying looks
He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies Jean-Jacques Rousseau
fear moving able
Confront your fears list them get to know them and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead. Jerry Gillies
fear men suffering
Governments would rather spend their money on another bomber than education, and why do we fear black men when every bit of suffering in our lives has a Caucasian face attached to it? Jeremy Clarkson
fear smell scent
Vinegar: that's what fear smells like. Jennifer Egan
fear long world
And I saw that all my life I had known that this was going to happen, and that I'd been afraid for a long time, I'd been afraid for a long time. There's fear, of course, with everybody. But now it had grown, it had grown gigantic; it filled me and it filled the whole world. Jean Rhys
fear the-end-of-the-day division
At the end of the day, we must go forward with hope and not backward by fear and division. Jesse Jackson
fear stronger loses
She loved him, more than she could ever find words for, but this love he felt for her was not quite the same. It wasn't so much stronger, as more demanding, more insistent. As though he feared he would lose that which he had finally won. Jean M. Auel
fear grace growth
Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. I use the word "love" here not merely in the personal sense but as a state of being, or a state of grace - not in the infantile American sense of being made happy but in the tough and universal sense of quest and daring and growth. James A. Baldwin
fear fate cups
Surely if we knew what bitterness fate held in store, we would shrink back in fear and let the cup of life pass us by untasted. Jacqueline Carey
fear pride competition
Pride is an admission of weakness; it secretly fears all competition and dreads all rivals. Fulton J. Sheen
fear soul body
Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further. Friedrich Nietzsche
fear grief enemy
Grief, first take on shape! what is shapeless causes fear and torment but when the enemy materializes, half the victory is won. Franz Grillparzer
fear
It is a true saying, that what you fear you find. Jeanette Winterson
fear world enough
The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear.