Quotes by Fear The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice. Yet had I known such pain was in the next room, and had it been dumb, I believe—I have thought since—I could have stood it well enough. It is when suffering finds a voice and sets our nerves quivering that this pity comes troubling us. But in spite of the brilliant sunlight and the green fans of the trees waving in the soothing sea-breeze, the world was a confusion, blurred with drifting black and red phantasms, until I was out of earshot of the house in the stone wall. H. G. Wells wallpainfear As much as we thirst for approval we dread condemnation. Hans Selye approval-of-othersself-esteemfear I think we communicate only too well, in our silence, in what is unsaid, and that what takes place is a continual evasion, desperate rearguard attempts to keep ourselves to ourselves. Communication is too alarming. To enter into someone else's life is too frightening. To disclose to others the poverty within us is too fearsome a possibility. Harold Pinter communicationfearlife Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set. Harold MacMillan life-and-deathpartyfear I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending, that haunts our sleep so much as the fear that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived. Harold S. Kushner fearsleepadventure To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill. It is in fact the consuming illness of our time. Harry Allen Overstreet hatefearpositive Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival. Hannah Arendt survivalemotionfear Fearr imprisons, faith liberates; fear paralyzes, faith empowers; fear disheartens, faith encourages; fear sickens, faith heals; fear makes useless, faith also makes serviceable az quotes. Harry Emerson Fosdick empoweringfaithfear War's tragedy is that it uses man's best to do man's worst. Harry Emerson Fosdick fearinspirationalwar You can never get rid of fear, you can only drop it. Harbhajan Singh Yogi fear Fear is a message - sometimes helpful, sometimes not - but often conveying critical information about our beliefs, our needs, and our relationship to the world around us. Harriet Lerner fearworldneeds Even if their outward fortunes could be absolutely equalized, there would be, from individual constitution alone, an aristocracy and a democracy in every land. The fearful by nature would compose an aristocracy, the hopeful by nature a democracy, were all other causes of divergence done away. Harriet Martineau governmenthopefear Throughout evolutionary history, anxiety and fear have helped every species to be wary and to survive. Fear can signal us to act, or, alternatively, to resist the impulse to act. It can help us to make wise, self-protective choices in and out of relationships where we might otherwise sail mindlessly along, ignoring signs of trouble. Harriet Lerner selfwisefear Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. Harry S. Truman voicefearcountry The journey I'm taking is inside me. Just like blood travels down veins, what I'm seeing is my inner self and what seems threatening is just the echo of the fear in my heart. Haruki Murakami journeyfearheart Self-discipline is a form of freedom. Freedom from laziness and lethargy, freedom from the expectations and demands of others, freedom from weakness and fear-and doubt. Self-discipline allows a pitcher to feel his individuality, his inner strength, his talent. He is master of, rather than a slave to, his thoughts and emotions. Harvey Dorfman freedomfearthinking When even one American - who has done nothing wrong - is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth - then all Americans are in peril. Harry S. Truman marijuanafearwar Everyone who has something is afraid of losing it, and people with nothing are worried they'll forever have nothing. Everyone is the same. Haruki Murakami fearworrypeople No man should leave in the universe anything of which he is afraid. Gilbert K. Chesterton shouldfearmen Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all. Heinrich Heine atheismfearsleep«4445464748495051525354»
