Quotes about Fear

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear.

There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.

Life is lived on the edge.

I'm not afraid of failure, I'm afraid of succeeding at things that don't matter.

He had a word, too. Love, he called it. But I had been used to words for a long time. I knew that that word was like the others: just a shape to fill a lack; that when the right time came, you wouldn't need a word for that any more than for pride or fear....One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

Liberalism is trust of the people, tempered by prudence; conservatism, distrust of people, tempered by fear.

Maybe there is a beast… maybe it's only us.

Fancy thinking the Beast was something you could hunt and kill! You knew, didn't you? I'm part of you? Close, close, close! I'm the reason why it's no go? Why things are what they are?

Maybe," he said hesitantly, "maybe there is a beast." [...] "What I mean is, maybe it's only us.

I know there isn't no beast—not with claws and all that, I mean—but I know there isn't no fear, either." Piggy paused. "Unless—" Ralph moved restlessly. "Unless what?" "Unless we get frightened of people.

Fashion is gentility running away from vulgarity and afraid of being overtaken.