Quotes about fear
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.
fear men losing
The man who fears losing has already lost.
fear father what-matters
There's no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.
fear winter wind
A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.
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.
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;
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.
fear writing optimistic
It is difficult to write a paradiso when all the superficial indications are that you ought to write an apocalypse.
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.
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.
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
fear found given life lived
It was such a relief. I lived in fear of being found out. Now it's given me a whole new mission in life. Dick Sargent
fear heart people
[Censors are] people with secret attractions to various temptations... They are defending themselves under the pretext of defending others, because at heart they fear their own weaknesses.
fear nursing nurse
How very little can be done under the spirit of fear. Florence Nightingale
fear dark men
Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now... Henry Miller
fear reality atheism
The tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. Thousands and thousands of us, and we're passing one another without a look of recognition.
fear men matter
There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.
fear inspiration giving
Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.