Quotes about Fear
I left poor Scylla in a niche and fled. My fever'd parchings up, my scathing dread Met palsy half way: soon these limbs became 640 Gaunt, wither'd, sapless, feeble, cramp'd, and lame.
- John Keats
sidelong fix'd her eye on Saturn's face: There saw she direst strife; the supreme God At war with all the frailty of grief, Of rage, of fear, anxiety, revenge, Remorse, spleen, hope, but most of all despair.
- John Keats
Sorrow more beautiful than Beauty's self. There was a listening fear in her regard, As if calamity had but begun; As if the vanward clouds of evil days Had spent their malice, and the sullen rear 40 Was with its stored thunder labouring up.
- John Keats
When I have fears that I may cease to be Before my pen has glean'd my teeming brain, Before high piled books, in charact'ry, Hold like rich garners the full-ripen'd grain … When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be
- John Keats
I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore
- John Lennon
Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear. Why on earth are you there, when you're everywhere-come and get your share.
- John Lennon
So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good.
- John Milton
I think people want to get married to end their emotional uncertainty. In a way, they want to end powerful feelings, or certainly the negative ones.
- Alain de Botton
I am inclined to think from my own experience that the difficulty to eminence lies not in the road, but in the timidity of the traveler.
- Washington Allston
I'm not afraid of failure; I'm afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.
- William Carey
I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.
- Seth Godin
The greatest secret of winners is that failure inspires winning; thus, they are not afraid of losing.
- Robert Kiyosaki