Fear Quotes
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For I have learnt for a fact that nothing so effectively obtains, retains and regains grace, as that we should always be found not high-minded before God, but filled with holy fear.
Bernard of Clairvaux
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Forgetting isn't enough. You can paddle away from the memories and think they are gone. But they will keep floating back, again and again and agian. They circle you, like sharks. Until, unless, something, someone? Can do more than just cover the wound.
Sara Zarr
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My biggest fear in the world is going broke and having to depend on someone else again.
Edgerrin James
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Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.
John O. Brennan
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Fear is a lonely thing. Even those who love us best cannot get close to us when we are afraid.
Elizabeth Goudge
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Fear is something i don't you experience unless you have a choice. If you have a choice, you're liable to be afraid. But without a choice, what is there to be afraid of? You just go along and do what has to be done.
Mitchell Zuckoff
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Fear, O Achilles, the wrath of heaven; think on your own father and have compassion upon me, who am the more pitiable.
Homer
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Pray to God for gladness. Be glad as children, as the birds of heaven. And let not the sin of men confound you in your doings. Fear not that it will wear away your work and hinder its being accomplished. Do not say, 'Sin is mighty, wickedness is mighty, evil environment is mighty, and we are lonely and helpless, and evil environment is wearing us away and hindering our good work from being done.' Fly from that dejection, children!
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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One of the effects of fear is to disturb the senses and cause things to appear other than what they are.
Miguel de Cervantes
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I do not think you can get rid of the fear... but you can dance with it.
Seth Godin
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Death: There's nothing bad about it at all except the thing that comes before it-the fear of it.
Seneca the Younger
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Fear goes hand-in-hand with artistic creation, and no amount of success will make the fear go away entirely.
Susan Elizabeth Phillips
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Fear comes in two packages fear of failure, and sometimes, fear of success.
Tom Kite
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Behind every bad law, a deep fear.
Sarah Vowell
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Fear can keep you alive. The trick is not to let it overwhelm you. Not to let it rule you. If you’re afraid, that’s the universe trying to tell you something. Get away. Don’t run; don’t panic. Just pick up and walk out, calm as you please. Panic makes you stupid.
Barry Lyga
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In school, my biggest fear was that I couldn't produce emotion on cue.
Christian Borle
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The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.
Victor Hugo
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To move past fear is a cliche.
Tony Abbott
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Do not let fear confine your life Inside a shell of doubt; A turtle never moves until His head is sticking out.
Charles Ghigna
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Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.
Virgil
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The one thing we owe absolutely to God is never to be afraid of anything.
Charles de Foucauld
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For fear of causing terror to living beings, Mahamati, let the Bodhisattva who is disciplining himself to attain compassion, refrain from eating flesh.
Gautama Buddha
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Louise de Keroualle, being a Frenchwoman from the French court, was feared by most Englishmen for how she might influence their king, and that fear quickly turned to hatred.
Susan Holloway Scott
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All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law, as of all benign laws, is fear.
Elizabeth Goudge