Quotes about fear
fear past
The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death. Guy de Maupassant
fear gains prove
We must do the work to prove our fears groundless, otherwise it is our fears that will gain ground and our lives will be spent in their service. Guy Finley
fearless days-to-come plans
Far better is it for you to go through one small thing that frightens you than to make a thousand plans for an imagined fearless day to come.
fear life-changing understanding
Fearlessness comes with the birth of this new understanding: The only reason life changes as it does is to reveal the secret Goodness underlying those same changes.
fear ends seeing
The fear of seeing ourselves as we are ensures we will never see the end of our fears.
fear home reality
Fear looks both ways but still refuses to cross; fear looks twice and still doesn't leap. ... Fear usually arrives late, inevitably leaves early, and ends up never going out of town at all. Fear is the phantom hand on the back of the neck and the sound of a door opening downstairs when no one is coming home. ... Fear grows poor because it watches others gain wealth but cannot enter the fray; fear grows sick because it eats away at heath even as it fears its diminishment; fear grows old watching others live in ways that seem to threaten-but in reality only enhance-life. Gina Barreca
fear safety circumstances
Although fear in the right dosage and under the right circumstance protects us ... imaginary fear offers straitjackets instead of lifejackets, nooses instead of safety nets.
fear thinking doors
Bang bang bang. I understand now why so many horror movies use that device-the mysterious knock on the door-because it has the weight of a nightmare. You don't know what's out there, yet you know you'll open it. You'll think what I think: No one bad ever knocks. Gillian Flynn
fear thinking hands
Sometimes I think I won't ever feel safe until I can count my last days on one hand.
fear thinking clouds
The question I've asked more often during our marriage, if not out loud, if not to the person who could answer. I supposed these questions storm cloud over every marriage: What are you thinking how are you feeling? Who are you? What have we done to each other? What will we do?
fear food done
Do something. Anything. You're alive, and you'll only be for a few decades, and then it's done. You'll be in the ground, worm food. Make something and don't let fear consume you. Gianfranco Zola
fear people may
If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them. George Bernard Shaw
fear men wanted
Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?
fear night dread
Dread of night. Dread of not-night. Franz Kafka
fear fearless substance
My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.
fear dying
He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn’t yet lived.
fear power men
The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist. Erich Fromm
fear thinking religion
If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated.
fear future foolish
of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish. Erica Jong
fear fear-and-courage fearful
I have not ceased being fearful, but I have ceased to let fear control me.
fear procrastination looks
We are so scared of being judged that we look for every excuse to procrastinate.
fear essence challenges
The innermost essence of my being...is fearless; it is immune to criticism; it does not fear any challenge.
fear
The thing I fear comes upon me
fear impossible failing
...we should always act as if it were impossible to fail.
fear love-life men
And nevertheless, when they watched him leave the house, this man they themselves had urged to conquer the world, then they were the ones left with the terror that he would never return. That was their life. Love, if it existed, was something separate: another life. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
fear believe heart
It is true that after they have been reassured and have lost this fear, they are so artless and so free with all they possess, that no one would believe it without having seen it. Of anything they have, if you ask them for it, they never say no; rather they invite the person to share it, and show as much love as if they were giving their hearts. This letter, the first and rarest of all printed Americana, describes the scenery and the natives of Hispaniola. Christopher Columbus
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.
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.