Fear Quotes

Death was not the scariest thing out there; no, the denial of it could be far worse.

~ Nenia Campbell

Still, being fragile creatures, humans always try to hide from themselves the certainty that they will die. They do not see that it is death itself that motivates them to do the best things in their lives. They are afraid to step into the dark, afraid of the unknown, and their only way of conquering that fear is to ignore the fact that their days are numbered. They do not see that with an awareness of death, they would be able to be even more daring, to go much further in their daily conquests, because then they would have nothing to lose- for death itself is inevitable.

~ Paulo Coelho

When God issues a call to us, it is always a holy call. The vocation of dying is a sacred vocation. To understand that is one of the most important lessons a Christian can ever learn. When the summons comes, we can respond in many ways. We can become angry, bitter or terrified. But if we see it as a call from God and not a threat from Satan, we are far more prepared to cope with its difficulties.

~ R.c. Sproul

I am afraid of reduction. After a lifetime's independence- yes, selfish independence- I am terrified of being reduced to childhood once more, to helplessness, to seas of confusion from which the cruel lucid intervals poke up like rock shoals. I don't want to sit in my chair and be fed, much less do I want to be handed over to medical professionals.

~ Rosie Thomas

All primitive people are frightened of owls,' said Harley. 'The villagers here are scared to death of the gufo. Birds of ill omen. If they see one, they think they'll die. But they never do. See one, I mean, of course,' he added with a laugh.

~ Francis Brett Young

I'm so scared of dying without ever being really seen.

~ David Foster Wallace

How I suffered when I had to preach to you those pious lies that I detest in my heart. What remorse your credulity caused me! A thousand times I was on the point of breaking out publicly and opening your eyes, but a fear stronger than myself held me back, and forced me to keep silence until my death.

~ Jean Meslier

One of my biggest fears is that I'm going to die alone in my home, and my cats will eat me because I am too dead to open their food cans.

~ Kelli Jae Baeli

He knows that after him everything will continue on much as before, except that there will be a minuscule absence, a barely detective gap in the so-called grand scheme, one unit fewer now. Or not even that, not even an empty space where he once was, for all will rush immediately to fill that vacuum. Pft. Gone. Recollections of him will remain in the minds of others for a while, but presently those others too will die and his few relics with them. And then all will be dark.

~ John Banville

A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.

~ Lady Nancy Astor

I was afraid, sheer afraid, and wondered at myself. You see, I've no more pluck than any man of my inches but I'd been about a good bit. I'd seen adventure and heard other fellows talk it over, and I knew you're pretty sure to get out of everything with a whole skin till that last particular time that you don't - so what's the use of grizzling? (Golden Baby)

~ Alice Brown

Cad é an mhaith dom eagla a bheith orm? Ní shaorfadh eagla duine ón mbás, dar ndóigh.

~ Peig Sayers

Fife... simply walked off by himself, into the jungle to look at all the things which would continue to exist after he had ceased to. There were a lot of them. Fife looked at them all. They remained singularly unchanged by his scrutiny.

~ James Jones

I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.

~ Rosie Thomas

Pain has a threshold and so does death.

~ Suzy Kassem

Y todavía los que no murieron bajo las chozas ni se rajaron los huesos bajo los árboles ni se desangraron bajo las cuevas, ciegos de miedo y de ira acabaron despedazándose entre sí. Los pocos que no sufrieron quebranto, como recuerdo de la simpleza de sus corazones, se transformaron en monos.

~ Popol Vuh

There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.

~ Tahir Shah

I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us, then rip off our heads and scoop out our brains.

~ Tahir Shah

The exhilaration of battle was agreeable to him, but the sight of the dead, with their clay faces, blank eyes, and stiff bodies, which, when not unnaturally shrunken, were unnaturally swollen, had always intolerably affected him. He felt toward them a kind of reasonless antipathy which was something more than the physical and spiritual repugnance common to us all. Doubtless this feeling was due to his unusually acute sensibilities - his keen sense of the beautiful, which these hideous things outraged. Whatever may have been the cause, he could not look upon a dead body without a loathing which had in it an element of reselltment. What others have respected as the dignity of death had to him no existence - was altogether unthinkable. Death was a thing to be hated. It was not picturesque, it had no tender and solemn side - a dismal thing, hideous in all its manifestations and suggestions. Lieutenant Byring was a braver man than anybody knew, for nobody knew his horror of that which he was ever ready to encounter. (A Tough Tussle)

~ Ambrose Bierce

Faith is the flame that eliminates fear.

~ Suzy Kassem

While fear depletes power, faith gives wings for the soul’s elevation.

~ T.f. Hodge

The only walls that exist are those you have placed in your mind. And whatever obstacles you conceive, exist only because you have forgotten what you have already achieved.

~ Suzy Kassem

Fear is the lack of faith in one's ability to create powerful solutions.

~ T.f. Hodge

Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.

~ German Proverb

So, the darkness hid the little girl in herself,to protect her from the wolves with the human mask on their faces.

~ Sweara Ahmed

Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Plants are more courageous than almost all human beings: an orange tree would rather die than produce lemons, whereas instead of dying the average person would rather be someone they are not.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

There is a very thin line of difference between a Pessimist and a Perfectionist. Both are scared to fail, strive for ideal but the only think unlike in the two is- Pessimist thinks it will last forever and Perfectionist knows it won't.

~ Jasleen Kaur Gumber

The real reason the number of things that are shared via social media every single minute is so astronomical is because, whenever they each do, most users do not share or say something because they believe they have something worth remembering; they do mainly or only because they fear being forgotten.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Cowards say it can't be done, critics say it shouldn't have been done, creator say well done.

~ Amit Kalantri

Fear of failure is fiction, face this fact and fear will fall.

~ Amit Kalantri

An assembly is extra slow in taking actions.

~ Amit Kalantri

Don't always use prudence for precaution, sometimes use it for progress.

~ Amit Kalantri

There’s not a single good thing about fear. Fear is a habitual liar and a destroyer of a purpose-filled life. Don’t entertain fear. You’ve got to protect your dreams, goals, and the desires of your heart. Be brave in all things!

~ Stephanie Lahart

To overcome fear, do what you fear the most.

~ Debasish Mridha

The breeding ground of fear is procrastination and inaction. We overcome them not by preparation, but by taking action.

~ Debasish Mridha

Why are we afraid of the silence that ensues after our death? Wasn’t it the same silence we endured before birth? Isn’t it the same silence we revel in when we are completely immersed in the present moment? Let us not be afraid.

~ Kamand Kojouri

The only impossible task is the one which we fear to begin.

~ Debasish Mridha

Never fear to be wonderful.

~ Debasish Mridha

since the thing perhaps isto eat flowers and not to be afraid

~ E.e. Cummings

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