FEAR

Related Subjects: Cowardice, Despair, Doubt, Flight, Imagination, Timidity

1. Throw fear to the wind.—ARISTOPHANES, The Wasps
   

2. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear.—Bible, 1 John 4:18
   

3. We must get rid of Fear.—CARLYLE, Heroes & Hero-Worship
   

4. Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things under ground, and much more in the skies.—CERVANTES, Don Quixote
   

5. We listen'd and look'd sideways up!
   Fear at my heart, as at a cup,
   My life-blood seem'd to sip.—COLERIDGE, The Ancient Mariner
   

6. Like one that on a lonesome road
   Doth walk in fear and dread,
   And having once turned round, walks on,
   And turns no more his head;
   Because he knows a frightful fiend
   Doth close behind him tread.—COLERIDGE, The Ancient Mariner
   

7. Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.—DRYDEN, Amphitryon
   

8. The thing that numbs the heart is this:
   That men cannot devise
   Some scheme of life to banish fear
   That lurks in most men's eyes.—JAMES N. HALL, Fear
   

9. Fear of the lack of shelter, food,
   And fire for winter's cold;
   Fear of their children's lacking these,
   This in a world so old.—JAMES N. HALL, Fear
   

10. Fear and amazement beat upon my heart,
    Even as a madman beats upon a drum.—THOMAS HEYWOOD, A Woman Killed With Kindness
    

11. Many may not love us, but all shall fear us.—HEINRICH HIMMLER
    

12. And how am I to face the odds
    Of man's bedevilment and God's?
    I, a stranger and afraid
    In a world I never made.—A. E. HOUSMAN, Last Poems
    

13. When I have fears that I may cease to be.—KEATS, When I Have Fears
    

14. Alike were they free from
    Fear, that reigns with the tyrant, and envy, the vice of republics.—LONGFELLOW, Evangeline
    

15. There's nae medicine for fear.—Proverb
    

16. Two things ought to be the object of our fear, the envy of friends, and the hatred of enemies.—Proverb
    

17. Fear can keep a man out of danger, but courage only can support him in it.—Proverb
    

18. Fear is one part of prudence.—Proverb
    

19. Fear is stronger than love.—Proverb

20. He that's afraid to do good would do ill if he durst.—Proverb
    

21. He that fears leaves must not come into a wood.—Proverb
    

22. He that fears you present will hate you absent.—Proverb
    

23. He is miserable once who feels it, but twice who fears it before it comes.—Proverb
    

24. The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.—PUBLILIUS SYRUS, Sententiae
    

25. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.—FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT, First Inaugural Address
    

26. Scared out of his seven senses.—SCOTT, Rob Roy
    

27. So slippery that The fear's as bad as falling.—SHAKESPEARE, Cymbeline
    

28. Distill'd
    Almost to jelly with the act of fear.—SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet
    

29. Of all base passions, fear is most accurs'd.—SHAKESPEARE,Henry VI
    

30. Fie, my lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard!—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
    

31. When our actions do not,
    Our fears do make us traitors.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
    

32. But now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound in
    To saucy doubts and fears.—SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth
    

33. Tush, tush! fear boys with bugs.—SHAKESPEARE, The Taming of the Shrew
    

34. To fear the worst oft cures the worse.—SHAKESPEARE, Troilus and Cressida
    

35. To him who is in fear everything rustles.—SOPHOCLES
    

36. The very hair on my head
    Stands up for dread.—SOPHOCLES, Oedipus Coloneus
    

37. Fear, like pain, looks and sounds worse than it feels.—REBECCA WEST
    

38. To teach people not to be afraid of being afraid is one of the most necessary and most neglected things in war. Youngsters who feel as almost all soldiers feel during battle imagine that these feelings are abnormal and become obsessed with the idea that they have a yellow streak in them. If they can be reassured on this point they will do their job well.—TOM WINTRINGHAM, New Ways of War