Emotions

"I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins, That almost freezes up the heat of life."

"Anything which is accomplished through making other people afraid is wrong. Anything which deprives other people of their dignity is wrong."

"They spake not a word; But, like dumb statues or breathing stones, Gazed each on other, and look'd deadly pale."

"Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear."

"To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, Gives in your weakness strength unto your foe."

"Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly."

"Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush suppos'd a bear!"

"The weariest and most loathed worldly life That age, ache, penury, and imprisonment Can lay on nature is a paradise To what we fear of death."

"His flight was madness: when our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors."

"You can behold such sights, And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, When mine is blanch'd with fear."

"Thou can'st not say I did it; never shake Thy gory locks at me."

"Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In the affliction of these terrible dreams That shake us nightly."

"Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings."

"And make my seated heart knock at my ribs."

"For I am sick and capable of fears, Oppress'd with wrongs, and therefore full of fears, A widow, husbandless, subject to fears, A woman, naturally born to fears."

"It is the part of men to fear and tremble, When the most mighty gods by tokens send Such dreadful heralds to astonish us."

"Things done well, And with a care, exempt themselves from fear; Things done without example, in their issue Are to be feared."

"O God of battles! steel my soldiers' hearts; Possess them not with fear; take from them now The sense of reckoning, if the opposèd numbers Pluck their hearts from them."

"Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer."

"True nobility is exempt from fear."

"Thou tremblest; and the whiteness in thy cheek Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand."

"There is not such a word Spoke of in Scotland as this term of fear."

"Best safety lies in fear."

"It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't."

"To fear the worst oft cures the worse."

"Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear."

"I am human, sometimes I feel afraid and sometimes I am worried because even though I am not afraid to spend a few years in jail, I understand that my mother and friends will be worried. I always discuss this in my head. [...] I'm more scared to live in this country, in this world, and do nothing: to spend life too afraid of everything, too afraid to speak or go to certain places, to just be in a normal work and don't create anything for the next generation. In my understanding, that is much more scary than to go to jail."

"Although acquired capability may not be directly treatable, explaining to combat veterans how their experiences may have contributed to invincibility or fearlessness toward pain and death may help them maintain awareness of their increased risk. It could be communicated to military personnel in general that they should seek help immediately when they feel suicidal, not because they are weak, but to the contrary, because they may lack fear. This explanation may also help decrease cognitive barriers to seeking aid for mental health."

"Mankind must not go back to hiding in fear. No one else will protect us, and we must stand up for ourselves. While the rest of mankind dwells in the light, we must stand in the darkness to fight it (anomalies), contain it, and shield it from the eyes of the public, so that others may live in a sane and normal world."

"The relationship of anger to attack is obvious, but the relationship of anger to fear is not always so apparent. Anger always involves projection of separation, which must ultimately be accepted as one's own responsibility, rather than being blamed on others. Anger cannot occur unless you believe that you have been attacked, that your attack is justified in return, and that you are in no way responsible for it."

"The ego is afraid of the spirit's joy, because once you have experienced it you will withdraw all protection from the ego, and become totally without investment in fear. Your investment is great now because fear is a witness to the separation, and your ego rejoices when you witness to it. Leave it behind! Do not listen to it and do not preserve it."

"The ego believes that to accomplish its goal is happiness. But it is given you to know that God’s function is yours, and happiness cannot be found apart from your joint will. Recognize only that the ego’s goal, which you have pursued quite diligently, has merely brought you fear, and it becomes difficult to maintain that fear is happiness. Upheld by fear, this is what the ego would have you believe. p. 10"

"This course can therefore be summed up very simply in this way: Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the peace of God."

"Afsan stood tall. “I am not afraid.” “Fear is important, young one. Fear is the counselor. Those who don’t know when to fear wind up dead.”"

"In any case, we do not advance the human cause by refusing to consider ideas that make us frightened."

"Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric."

"There are two ways of coping with fear: one is to diminish the external danger, and the other is to cultivate Stoic endurance. The latter can be reinforced, except where immediate action is necessary, by turning our thoughts away from the cause of fear. The conquest of fear is of very great importance. Fear is in itself degrading; it easily becomes an obsession; it produces hate of that which is feared, and it leads headlong to excesses of cruelty. Nothing has so beneficent an effect on human beings as security. …Fear, at present, overshadows the world. …If matters are to improve, the first and essential step is to find a way of diminishing fear."

"Christianity offers reasons for not fearing death or the universe, and in so doing it fails to teach adequately the virtue of courage. The craving for religious faith being largely an outcome of fear, the advocates of faith tend to think that certain kinds of fear are not to be deprecated. In this, to my mind, they are gravely mistaken. To allow oneself to entertain pleasant beliefs as a means of avoiding fear is not to live in the best way. In so far as religion makes its appeal to fear, it is lowering to human dignity."

"To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead."

"Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear."

"No man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is; no man can achieve the greatness of which he is capable until he has allowed himself to see his own littleness."

"Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."

"There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man."

"Fear doesn't shut you down; it wakes you up."

"You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, "I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along." …You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

"We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression — everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way — everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want… everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear, which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of physical aggression against any neighbor — anywhere in the world. That is no vision of a distant millennium. It is a definite basis for a kind of world attainable in our own time and generation."

"Let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself—nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

"Fear was my father, Father Fear. His look drained the stones."

"Notre repentir n'est pas tant un regret du mal que nous avons fait, qu'une crainte de celui qui nous en peut arriver."

"L'amour de la justice n'est en la plupart des hommes que la crainte de souffrir l'injustice."