Fear Quotes - page 8

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind. (Virgil)
I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve. View quote
Isoroku Yamamoto
I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life. View quote
Merle Shain
Fear may come true that which one is afraid of. View quote
Viktor Frankl
The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace. View quote
Norman Borlaug
In the direction that your fear is growing, you're on the right path. View quote
Milorad Pavić
Fear, indeed, is the mother of foresight... View quote
Henry Taylor
I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times. View quote
Bruce Lee
Early and provident fear is the mother of safety. View quote
Edmund Burke
The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear. (Edmund Burke)
It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all. Universal suicide is the most logical thing in the world - we reject it only because of our primitive cowardice and childish fear of the dark. If we were sensible we would seek death - the same blissful blank which we enjoyed before we existed. View quote
H. P. Lovecraft
Desire is the memory of pleasure and fear is the memory of pain. Both make the mind restless. (...) View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj
I'd love to be a dad. I hope I'd be great at it. That's every man's fear, yet his most important job. View quote
Matt Damon
He that has truth in his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue. View quote
John Ruskin
As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear. View quote
L. Neil Smith
There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a way that utopia remains forever closed, and we live in freedom and hell, debased of style, not individual from one another, void of courage, our fear rationalized away. View quote
Norman Mailer
The free man is he who does not fear to go to the end of his thought. View quote
Léon Blum
The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That's the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead! View quote
George S. Patton
There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear. View quote
George S. Patton
Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves. (Henry Miller)
My aim then was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. View quote
William Tecumseh Sherman
You can't be afraid of people willing to hurt you, cause if you fear life, then you will never live. View quote
Chester Bennington
The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity... Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore. View quote
Emil Cioran
The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words. View quote
Emil Cioran