Fear Quotes - Page 11

• 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.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Children, Men, Years

  "True at First Light". Book by Ernest Hemingway, ch. 17, 1999.

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• There is always great beauty, not of images, feeling or thought. Beauty is neither thought nor feeling; it has nothing whatsoever to do with emotion or sentiment. There is fear. Fear is never an actuality; it is either before or after the active present. When there is fear in the active present, is it fear? It is there and there is no escape from it, no evasion possible. There, at that actual moment, there is total attention at the moment of danger, physical or psychological.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Inattention, Facts, Flight

  "Krishnamurti's notebook".

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• Oh, we can populate the dark with horrors, even we who think ourselves informed and sure, believing nothing we cannot measure or weigh. I know beyond all doubt that the dark things crowding in on me either did not exist or were not dangerous to me, and still I was afraid.

  John Steinbeck

  Believe, Dark, Thinking

  John Steinbeck (2007). “Travels with Charley and Later Novels, 1947-1962”

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• Fear will keep you alive; indifference won't.

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Alive, Indifference

  Laurell K. Hamilton (2011). “Laurell K. Hamilton's Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter collection 6-10”, p.39, Penguin

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• 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.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Inspirational, Real, Heart

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• Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  May

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• The man who has ceased to fear has ceased to care.

  F. H. Bradley

  Men, Care, He Man

  "Aphorisms". Book by F. H. Bradley, No. 63., 1930.

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• Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.

  Thomas a Kempis

  Heart, Cutting, Temptation

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• I can't stand a ballplayer who plays in fear.

  Red Auerbach

  Play, I Can

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• The greatest works of admiration,
  And all the fair examples of renown.
  Out of distress and misery are grown.

  Samuel Daniel

  Example, Misery, Admiration

  Samuel Daniel (1718). “The Poetical Works of Mr. Samuel Daniel ...: To which is Prefix'd, Memoirs of His Life and Writings ...”, p.362

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• And if you think that anybody is going to frighten me, you don't know me yet.

  Billy Sunday

  Christian, Thinking, You Don't Know Me

  Billy Sunday (1970). “Billy Sunday speaks”

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• And the things that we fear are a weapon to be held against us.

  Ian Rush

  Weapons

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• To be furious, is to be frighted out of fear.

  William Shakespeare

  Furious

  William Shakespeare, William Dodd (1839). “The Beauties of Shakspeare ... By the Rev. William Dodd, LL.D.”, p.194

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• I have a fear of failure.

  Joe Montana

  Fear Of Failure

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• A fighter has to know fear.

  Cus D'Amato

  Negativity, Fighter, Knows

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• My worst fear is that I'll end up living in some run-down duplex on Wilshire wearing pants hiked up to my nipples and muttering under my breath.

  Richard Dreyfuss

  Running, Pants, Nipples

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• Even when I have to write a simple letter I'm scared stiff as if faced with looming seasickness.

  Gustav Klimt

  Writing, Simple, Letters

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• Why haven't we, with all our cunning, experience, resolved this problem of fear completely? Isn't fear the cause of the 'me'?

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Causes, Problem, Cunning

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• I am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning.

  Horace

  Footprint, Dens, Frightened

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 267-70, Epistles, I. 1. 74, 1922.

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• You have something to say. Something of your very own. Try to say it. Don't be ashamed of any real thought or feeling you have. Don't undervalue it. Don't let the fear of others prevent you from saying it... You have something to say, something that no one else in the world has said in just your way of saying it.

  William Hughes Mearns

  Real, Feelings, Trying

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• Fear is a way of not allowing yourself to choose freely what you will do next; a way of letting your body's reflexes, not the needs of your mind, choose for you.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley

  Mind, Needs, Body

  Marion Zimmer Bradley (2002). “The Ages of Chaos”, p.39, Penguin

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• I was walking along the road with two friends. The sun set. I felt a tinge of melancholy. Suddenly the sky became a bloody red... I stood there, trembling with fright. And I felt a loud, unending scream piercing nature.

  Edvard Munch

  Sky, Two Friends, Piercings

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• The fact is that blank pages inspire me with terror. What will I put on them? Will it be good enough? Will I have to throw it out?

  Margaret Atwood

  Inspire, Pages, Facts

  Margaret Atwood (1990). “Margaret Atwood: Conversations”, Princeton, N.J. : Ontario Review Press

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• As many people die from an excess of timidity as from bravery.

  Norman Mailer

  People, Bravery, Excess

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• One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.

  Elias Canetti

  Prejudice, Transformation

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