Fear Quotes - Page 93

You can make people do anything if they're afraid.

It's all right to be afraid. You just don't let it stop you from doing your job.

Ack!" I said. Fearless master of the witty dialogue, that's me.

There is always great beauty, not of images, feeling or thought. Beauty is neither thought nor feeling; it has nothing whatsoever to do with emotion or sentiment. There is fear. Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present, is it fear? It is there and there is no escape from it, no evasion possible. There, at that actual moment, there is total attention at the moment of danger, physical or psychological.

A mind that is afraid withers away; it cannot function properly.

Why haven't we, with all our cunning, experience, resolved this problem of fear completely? Isn't fear the cause of the 'me'?

We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die.

The Japanese do not fear God. They only fear bombs.

All you can do is hang in there and hope you don't get motion sickness and puke all over the newspapers.

God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!

An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.

I used to think the reason I'd like to stop letting fear run my life was that it felt so bad to be afraid, and also that it was pointless - possibly wasted, if the feared thing never did materialize. But now that fear has packed its miserable bags and is running out the door, making slamming noises to call attention to itself, I begin to see how much room fear has occupied. What opportunity opens up!

It's a familiar truism that at any one moment, financial markets are dominated by either fear or greed. But the healthiest markets are those that are animated by both fear and greed at the same time.

Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven.

Horror is a feeling that cannot last long; human nature is incapable of supporting it.

His conclusion was that things were not always what they appeared to be. The cub's fear of the unknown was an inherited distrust, and it had now been strengthened by experience. Thenceforth, in the nature of things, he would possess an abiding distrust of appearances.

It is those very things that we are most afraid to do that provide the greatest liberation and growth for us.

The law serves of nought else in these days but for to do wrong, for nothing is spread almost but false matters by color of the law for reward, dread and favor and so no remedy is had in the Court of Equity in any way.

My sister stood up, trembling, and I must admit that I expected her familiar sneer to have taken its usual place on her face. But all I could find there was unhappiness and fear. Fear of my reaction, perhaps. But when a person has lived a life like hers, a life of promiscuity, rootlessness, and substance abuse, resentment and fear tend to replace all reasonable and proper emotions, and the world becomes your enemy.

Everyone remembers his past with greater vividness as the present becomes more important. Dying men in their last delirium are supposed to see their whole life spread out before them.

And it is true that life lacks the monotony of museums. There come days which seem worthy of being framed, but they are so full of conflicting sounds, of line and color and living, burning light that they never become tedious.

Tears throw a veil over our faults and allow us to accuse fate without fear or contradiction.

I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.

That men should live honestly, quietly, and comfortably together, it is needful that they should live under a sense of God's will, and in awe of the divine power, hoping to please God, and fearing to offend Him, by their behaviour respectively.

Fear is the reason for making art. It is a means to freedom.