Quotes about fear
fear boys risk
My whole life, I had thought that my story was, again and again: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and he had to risk everything to keep what he loved. But really, the story was: Once upon a time, there was a boy, and his fear ate him alive. Maggie Stiefvater
fear ocean mean
I don't trust the ocean, either; it would kill me as soon as not. It doesn't mean I'm afraid of it.
fear heart journey
The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart. Haruki Murakami
fear self-esteem approval-of-others
As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation. Hans Selye
fear expression emotion
Forms of expression always appear turgid to those who do not share the emotions they represent. Gilbert K. Chesterton
fear children ideas
The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown for the same reason that Agnostics worship it - because it is a fact.
fear sweat water
I feel my sinews slackened with the fright, and a cold sweat trills down all over my limbs, as if I were dissolving into water. John Dryden
fear boldness-and-courage mask
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.
fear silence ears
An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
fear life-lesson learning
He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
fear fate son
When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers o'er our Heads, Our apprehensions shoot beyond all bounds, Owls, Ravens, Crickets seem the watch of death, Nature's worst Vermine scare her God-like Sons. Ecchoes the very leavings of a Voice, Grow babling Ghosts, and call us to our Graves: Each Mole-hill thought swells to a huge Olympus, While we fantastick Dreamers heave and puff, And sweat with an Imagination's weight...
fear apprehension
Wink and shut their apprehensions up. John Marston
fear dark space
He knows that after him everything will continue on much as before, except that there will be a minuscule absence, a barely detective gap in the so-called grand scheme, one unit fewer now. Or not even that, not even an empty space where he once was, for all will rush immediately to fill that vacuum. Pft. Gone. Recollections of him will remain in the minds of others for a while, but presently those others too will die and his few relics with them. And then all will be dark. John Banville
fearless ive-learned ifs
If I've learned anything in this business, it's that you have to be fearless. Jody Watley
fear world shapes
When the horror recedes and the world resumes its normal shape, you cannot forget it. You have seen what is really there, the empty horror that exists when the consoling illusion of our mundane experience is stripped away, so you can never respond to the world in quite the same way again. Karen Armstrong
fear creative decision
I would sort out all the arguments and see which belonged to fear and which to creativeness. Other things being equal, I would make the decision which had the larger number of creative reasons on its side.
fearless
I was fearless...and lawless. Katharine Hepburn
fear fearless arrogant
Everyone thought I was bold and fearless and even arrogant, but inside I was always quaking.
fear feelings scare
I am not scared of you, I am scare of these feelings. Judy Blume
fear determine handle
How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.
fear heart doe
How does one kill fear, I wonder? How do you shoot a specter through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by its spectral throat? Joseph Conrad
fear stage fright
I have never known stage-fright at any time. Kate Smith
fear natural explanation
She was the sort of person for whom fear was the natural response to that beyond explanation. Kate Morton
fear hate anger
Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror. Laurell K. Hamilton
fear-of-love ifs
I would rather you love me, but if not love, fear will do.
fear liars thinking
Only those who have never known fear are allowed to think less of others for being afraid. Frankly, I think anyone who has never been afraid of anything in their entire life is either a liar or lacks imagination.
fear alive indifference
Fear will keep you alive; indifference won't.
fear mind clean
Nothing like fear to wash your mind clean.
fear hate hell
Fear will bind you closer than love, or hate, and it works a hell of a lot quicker.
fear dark-humor quoting
It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli
fear men errors
Fear, the strength of earth's religions, gripping every living soul, Was a monstrous human error for the making of men whole.
fear war failure
I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest. John Keats
fear voice immortal-soul
He ne'er is crowned with immortality Who fears to follow where airy voices lead.