Quotes
Quotes about Fear
Since what unnumbered year
Hast thou kept watch and ward
And o'er the buried Land of Fear
So grimly held thy guard?
The man that feareth, Lord, to doubt,
In that fear doubteth thee.
Let any man show the world that he feels
Afraid of its bark and 't will fly at his heels:
Let him fearlessly face it, 't will leave him alone:
But 't will fawn at his feet if he flings it a bone.
O little town of Bethlehem,
How still we see thee lie!
Above thy deep and dreamless sleep
The silent stars go by;
Yet in thy dark streets shineth
The everlasting Light;
The hopes and fears of all the years
Are met in thee to-night.
From too much love of living,
From hope and fear set free,
We thank with brief thanksgiving
Whatever gods may be
That no man lives forever,
That dead men rise up never;
That even the weariest river
Winds somewhere safe to sea.
Fear that makes faith may break faith.
I fear to love you, Sweet, because
Love's the ambassador of loss.
There are worser ills to face
Than foemen in the fray;
And many a man has fought because--
He feared to run away.
Chance cannot touch me! Time cannot hush me!
Fear, hope, and longing, at strife,
Sink as I rise, on, on, upward forever,
Gathering strength, gaining breath,--naught can sever
Me from the Spirit of Life!
Don't you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt?
Sweet Alice, whose hair was so brown;
Who wept with delight when you gave her a smile,
And trembl'd with fear at your frown!
Who fears to speak of Ninety-eight?
Who blushes at the name?
When cowards mock the patriot's fate,
Who hangs his head for shame?
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
It is asserted that the dogs keep running when they drink at the Nile, for fear of becoming a prey to the voracity of the crocodile.
Neither fear, nor wish for, your last day.
Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Cæsar and his fortunes in your boat.
Asked what he gained from philosophy, he answered, "To do without being commanded what others do from fear of the laws."
One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist.
In every hedge and ditch both day and night
We fear our death, of every leafe affright.
Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.
Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.
The love of justice is simply, in the majority of men, the fear of suffering injustice.
Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence.
I 'm growing old, I'm sixty years;
I 've labored all my life in vain.
In all that time of hopes and fears,
I 've failed my dearest wish to gain.
I see full well that here below
Bliss unalloyed there is for none
My prayer would else fulfilment know--
Never have I seen Carcassonne!
Heroism is the brilliant triumph of the soul over the flesh, that is to say over fear: fear of poverty, of suffering, of calumny, of illness, of loneliness and of death. There is no real piety without heroism. Heroism is the dazzling and glorious concentration of courage.
One that feared God and eschewed evil.
