Fear Quotes - Page 75

We can't stop here, this is bat country!

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

If some books are deemed most baneful and their sale forbid, how then with deadlier facts, not dreams of doting men? Those whom books will hurt will not be proof against events. Events, not books should be forbid.

In the meantime the groans changed into the protracted, thunderous roar by which all living creatures are struck with terror, and the nerves of people, who do not know what fear is, shake, just as the window-panes rattle from distant cannonading.

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - always do what you are afraid to do.

The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems.

A cheerful frame of mind, reinforced by relaxation... is the medicine that puts all ghosts of fear on the run.

Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written on your heart that fearful word 'satiety.'

I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death.

The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

...we should always act as if it were impossible to fail.

There is a mental fear, which provokes others of us to see the images of witches in a neighbor's yard and stampedes us to burn down this house. And there is a creeping fear of doubt, doubt of what we have been taught, of the validity of so many things we had long since taken for granted to be durable and unchanging. It has become more difficult than ever to distinguish black from white, good from evil, right from wrong.

fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment.

Die on a hilltop... eyeing the crows... waiting for your lids to close... but you want to watch as they peck your flesh... Ironic that they go for the eyes first.

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.

Go ahead, and fear not. You will have a full library at your service.

All of us experience fear, but when we confront and acknowledge it, we are able to turn it into courage. Being courageous does not mean never being scared; it means acting as you know you must even though you are undeniably afraid.

Some people fear seeing or feeling anything about which there is no general agreement. For others, it is thrilling to be aware of innuendo, shading, complexity.

Everyone casts a shadow. Everyone has a relationship with the fearful unknown.

There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery.

It seems strange that some artists fear a blank canvas, when it has been a major contributory factor to great paintings.

Fear is like a little garden spider that makes us jump back or the poor lost bee on the steering wheel that we blame for our automobile wreck. The problem in fear is our response - the way we treat animals or insects that frighten us. . . . Fear is also the universal scapegoat we blame when we take flight from intimacy or shrink up inside ourselves in a thousand little ways.

Nothing is bigger than life. There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What's noble about being an idiot? What's noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What's noble about being dead?