Quotes about fear
fear virtue
Fear could never make virtue. Voltaire
fear soul atheism
I thank whatever gods may be For my unconquerable soul. William Ernest Henley
fear going-away world
...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there. William Stafford
fear men animal
Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all. William Butler Yeats
fear heart night
When a man grows old his joy Grows more deep day after day, His empty heart is full at length But he has need of all that strength Because of the increasing Night That opens her mystery and fright.
fear men enemy
Unity of man has always been impossible in a world of fear and discontent where every man fears every other man as an enemy. Walter Russell
fear thinking light-waves
Perfection of rhythm, balanced perfection of rhythm. Everything in Nature is expressed by rhythmic waves of light. Every thought and action is a light-wave of thought and action. If one interprets the God within one, one's thoughts and actions must be balanced rhythmic waves. Ugliness, fears, failures and diseases arise from unbalanced thoughts and actions. Therefore think beauty always if one desire vitality of body and happiness.
fear ears whispering
Death stands above me, whispering low I know not what into my ear; Of his strange language all I know Is, there is not a word of fear. Walter Savage Landor
fear hero men
He had found the band of jackals he needed. But as Jack McCall rode through the center of town, he experienced the terrifying certainty that a man faces when he's about to make his own name famous. He lacked both a hero's calm and a coward's resolve to survive at any price. Walter Hill
fear eye dark
Love is Enough Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining, Though the skies be too dark for dim eyes to discover The gold-cups and daisies fair blooming thereunder, Though the hills be held shadows, and the sea a dark wonder, And this day draw a veil over all deeds passed over, Yet their hands shall not tremble, their feet shall not falter: The void shall not weary, the fear shall not alter These lips and these eyes of the loved and the lover. William Morris
fear book differences
There are books of the same chemical composition as dynamite. The only difference is that a piece of dynamite explodes once, whereas a book explodes a thousand times. Yevgeny Zamyatin
fear feelings killing
It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter Winston Churchill
fear sometimes modern
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
fear war greatest-victory
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.
fear men nuts
I began to get a feeling (...) of being the only sane man in a nut house. It doesn't make you feel superior but depressed and scared, because there is nobody you can contact. William S. Burroughs
fear men order
Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it. Woodrow Wilson
fear clouds anxiety
My apprehension comes in crowds, I dread the rustling of the grass, The very shadows of the clouds, Have power to shake me as they pass, I question things and do not find, one that will answer to my mind, And all the world appears unkind. William Wordsworth
fear voice whispering
What are fears but voices airy? Whispering harm where harm is not. And deluding the unwary Till the fatal bolt is shot!
fear past world
He spake of love, such love as spirits feel In worlds whose course is equable and pure; No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,- The past unsighed for, and the future sure.
fear hate our-world
It is impossible not to notice that our world is tormented by failure, hate, guilt, and fear. William Saroyan
fear laughter anxiety
Comedy is defiance. It's a snort of contempt in the face of fear and anxiety. And it's the laughter that allows hope to creep back on the inhale. Will Durst
fear useless weapons
Fear's useless. Either something bad happens or it doesn't: If it doesn't, you've wasted time being afraid, and if it does, you've wasted time that you could have spent sharpening your weapons. Sarah Rees Brennan
fear eye flash
My life was going to flash before my eyes, but it decided to hide behind my eyes and quake with terror instead.
fear example misery
The greatest works of admiration, And all the fair examples of renown. Out of distress and misery are grown. Samuel Daniel
fear wickedness politics
In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
fear firsts canvas
I am the first to be surprised and often terrified by the images that I see appear on my canvas. Salvador Dali
fearless stories comedy
A wonderful story collection set between one place and another and shaped by a fearless sense of comedy. W. G. Sebald
fear children night
Lost in a haunted wood, Children afraid of the night Who have never been happy or good. W. H. Auden
fear children worry
the child unlucky in his little State, Some hearth where freedom is excluded, A hive whose honey is fear and worry, Feels calmer now and somehow assured of escape
fear moving faces
The fears you don’t face control you. The fears you face, you move beyond. Wayne Dyer
fear stress anger
The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.
fear rain book
Now everything was changed. She walked about with cautious, anxious steps, staring constantly at the ground, on the lookout for things that crept and crawled. Bushes were dangerous, and so were sea grass and rain water. There were little animals everywhere. They could turn up between the covers of a book, flattened and dead, for the fact is that creeping animals, tattered animals, and dead animals are with us all our lives, from beginning to end. Grandmother tried to discuss this with her, to no avail. Irrational terror is so hard to deal with. Tove Jansson
fear believe soul
I don't fear death because I believe it is a transition. Our souls can't be destroyed. I know we are going to live in another life. Uri Geller