Quotes by Fear There exist some evils so terrible and some misfortunes so horrible that we dare not think of them, whilst their very aspect makes us shudder; but if they happen to fall on us, we find ourselves stronger than we imagined, we grapple with our ill luck, and behave better than we expected we should. Jean de la Bruyere fearfallthinking And I saw that all my life I had known that this was going to happen, and that I'd been afraid for a long time, I'd been afraid for a long time. There's fear, of course, with everybody. But now it had grown, it had grown gigantic; it filled me and it filled the whole world. Jean Rhys fearlongworld You can't let the fear of something completely and absolutely inevitable. Jeb Corliss completenessinevitablefear There were days when you peered into yourself, into the secret places of your heart, and what you saw there made you faint with horror. And then, next day, you didn't know what to make of it,you couldn't interpret the horror you had glimpsed the day before. Yes, you know what evil costs. Jean-Paul Sartre secret-placesfearheart He who pretends to look upon death without fear, lies Jean-Jacques Rousseau feardeathlying Today, I’m a conservationist because I believe that my species doesn’t have the right or option to determine the fate of other species, even ones that inspire fear in us. Jeff Corwin fatefearbelieve We fear passion and laugh at too much love and those who love too much. And still we long to feel. Jeanette Winterson laughterpassionfear The world is surely wide enough to walk without fear. Jeanette Winterson enoughfearworld It is a true saying, that what you fear you find. Jeanette Winterson fear In accumulating property for ourselves or our posterity, in founding a family or a state, or acquiring fame even, we are mortal; but in dealing with truth we are immortal, and need fear no change nor accident. Henry David Thoreau truthfearneeds There is a line from Dante that says, "The arrow seen before cometh less rudely." President John F. Kennedy put one aspect of the same thought into one of his state of the union messages this way: "The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining." The Boy Scouts say it best of all: "Be prepared." That isn't just cracker-barrel wisdom with us; it is theology. "If ye are prepared ye shall not fear." (D&C 38:30) Jeffrey R. Holland feartimeboys Vinegar: that's what fear smells like. Jennifer Egan scentsmellfear All you can do is hang in there and hope you don't get motion sickness and puke all over the newspapers. Jennifer Rardin sicknessnewspapersfear Fear sucks. Because you never know when it will attack. Sometimes it sneaks up behind you, giggling like your best girlfriend from seventh grade. Then it whacks you on the back of the head, takes you straight to your knees before you realize what hit you. Other times you can see it coming, just a dot on the horizon, but you're like a canary in a cage. All you can do is hang in there and hope you don't get motion sickness and puke all over the newspapers. Jennifer Rardin horizongirlfriendfear Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place. Jennifer Weiner inertiafear Governments would rather spend their money on another bomber than education, and why do we fear black men when every bit of suffering in our lives has a Caucasian face attached to it? Jeremy Clarkson feareducationmen A great fear, when it is ill-managed, is the parent of superstition; but a discreet and well-guided fear produces religion. Jeremy Taylor superstitionsparentfear We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity. I am afraid. I will taste fear until I die. Jerry Pournelle variableseggsfear I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all. Jerzy Kosinski compassfeardoe There is also an underlying, less specific fear - what some might call an ontological or existential anxiety - that shrouds our days and seeps into our dreams. We feel empty and seek meaning. We feel empty and seek meaning. We yearn and know not what we yearn for. There is a black hole at the center of our understanding that engulfs and crushes our every attempt to explore it. Something is missing. Jesse Browner crushfeardream«5556575859606162636465»
