Elizabeth Bowen Quotes

While there's life, there's fear.

Public fear isn't something to be played with.

I'm scared of the unknown future.

I fear the future.

When there is nothing to fear is the time to begin fearing everything.

Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome.

I'm always on the worrying side.

It's natural to get nervous about anything you care about.

I don't feel that much fear.

The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

There is even a happiness - that makes the heart afraid.

There is no terror in the bang, only in the anticipation of it.

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

I am always worried when someone says, 'This is perfect.'

Fear tastes like a rusty knife and do not let her into your house.

Whenever things are good, I always worry about what could go wrong.

In later life, we don't easily talk of fears, but instead we discuss our 'concerns.' Fear seems too primal and hysterical, but concern is polite and intellectual and nicely under control.

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.

The unknown is always frightening.

In general, I think I'm quick to worry about disasters of all kinds.

What else does anxiety about the future bring you but sorrow upon sorrow?

It's hard for me to be happy because I'm always worried about something going awry or what could happen to screw it up. It's hard for me to sit and look around, going, 'Ah, I'm really happy.' I'm not that kind of person.

Americans have discovered fear.