Fear Quotes - Page 96

There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.

A man who has been in danger, When he comes out of it forgets his fears, And sometimes he forgets his promises.

And the great question for mankind is what is to be loved or hated next, whenever and old love or fear has lost its hold.

I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.

After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.

I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.

Fear has been my biggest friend. Fear of the unknown. Whenever I've been afraid, I've been very self-protective.

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.

of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.

A creative block is a fear about the future, a guess about the dangers dwelling in the dark computer and the locked studio.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

Fear can supplant our real problems only to the extent -unwilling either to assimilate or to exhaust it -we perpetuate it within ourselves like a temptation and enthrone it at the very heart of our solitude.

For I'm afraid of loneliness; shiveringly, terribly afraid. I don't mean the ordinary physical loneliness, for here I am, deliberately travelled away from London to get to it, to its spaciousness and healing. I mean that awful loneliness of spirit that is the ultimate tragedy of life. When you've got to that, really reached it, without hope, without escape, you die. You just can't bear it, and you die.

Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous.

An angel's arm can't snatch me from the grave; legions of angels can't confine me there.

One to destroy, is murder by the law; and gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe; to murder thousands, takes a specious name, 'War's glorious art', and gives immortal fame.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

The greatest fear that I have regarding the outcome for America of these disclosures is that nothing will change.

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.

To begin with, I don't have any stage fright

The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace; And makes all ills that vex us here to cease.

The yielding of the weak is the concession to fear.

Early and provident fear is the mother of safety.

It was amusement enough to be with a group of fearless and talkative girls, who said new things in a new language, who were ignorant of tradition and unimpressed by distinctions of rank; but it was soon clear that their young hostesses must be treated with the same respect, if not with the same ceremony as English girls of good family.

No totalitarians, no wars, no fears, famines or perils of any kind can really break a man's spirit until he breaks it himself by surrendering. Tyranny has many dread powers, but not the power to rule the spirit.