Quotes
Quotes about Fear
I am fearfully and wonderfully made.
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.
The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.
But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings.
Fear of God before their eyes.
Fear God. Honour the king.
There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.
...to be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodnes disease." My debauchery I undertook solitarily, by night, covertly, fearfully, filthily, with a shame that would not abandon me... I was then already bearing the underground in my soul.
We can feel strongly for primitive man in the dark; for all our science, we have not fully overcome our fear of it or, when human contact is lost, our sense of devastating loneliness in it
The fear of solitude is at the bottom the fear of the double, the figure which appears one day and always heralds death
This musing and this fear's work of your maiden years. Why shut longer your ears?
I have had a lifelong difficulty in accepting physical laws. Aeroplanes fly, and I have read all the books which explain aerodynamics, but, flying, I have sometimes been fearful of the sudden exposure of the science of flight as untenable and, with a kind of satisfaction, of hearing the pilot announce that we were falling.
This is what literature is meant to be--exploration without fear
He (James Joyce) is a modern novelist who has equipped our minds with the words and symbols we need in order to understand the contemporary world, and he will still be waiting to help when the fearsome future rolls in
There are two good reasons for writing much, if one can. The first is the need to earn; the second is the fear of an untimely death, which will prevent the half-formed books in one's mind from being realized. We know not the day nor the hour. I may be killed in a train accident when taking this present book to my publisher in London. You can see whether or not this happened by reading the blurb on the dust jacket
There are times ... when drunkeness attacks the universe of the spirit. The balance of good and evil is very noticably distrubed, and while some fear the end of all things, others rejoice in the belief that a new age is coming
I saw my paper as the body I once had, I longed towards it. I was fearful, though, of disfiguring it with blots and scratches
The poet fears he is going to die or fears he is not going to die. Rather like seasickness
The world is a fearful emptiness. But birds and flowers grant some little consolation
With awe and something of fear, John felt as if he were being instructed by the dead in person, souls of poets dead and gone. Doors were being opened. Welcome to long life and further revelations
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear--not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word. Consider the flea!--incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage. Whether you are asleep or awake he will attack you, caring nothing for the fact that in bulk and strength you are to him as are the massed armies of the earth to a sucking child; he lives both day and night and all days and nights in the very lap of peril and the immediate presence of death, and yet is no more afraid than is the man who walks the streets of a city that was threatened by an earthquake ten centuries before. When we speak of Clive, Nelson, and Putnam as men who didn't know what fear was, we ought always to add the flea--and put him at the head of the procession.
Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.
You don't have to fear defeat if you believe it may reveal powers that you didn't know you possessed.
Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is more important than fear.
Even the boldest zebra fears the hungry lion.
