Yamamoto Tsunetomo Quotes

I have little doubt that when St. George had killed the dragon he was heartily afraid of the princess.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

All cultures have had a belief in ghosts and a fear of ghosts. People have always told stories, and everybody likes being frightened, especially when you feel safe. Personally, I find them scarier than vampires or zombies.

As a child, I thought, 'Once I am a grown-up, there will be no more fear, no more worries,' and it turns out that's not true.

Few things in life can be so appalling as the difference between a dry antiseptic statement of a principle by a well spoken man in a quiet office, and what happens to people when that principle is put into practice.

A man afraid of death will never play the part of a live man.

The washing-up was so dismally real that Bilbo was forced to believe the party of the night before had not been part of his bad dreams, as he had rather hoped.

Children today laugh at fathers who tell them about dragons. It is necessary to make fear a required subject; otherwise children will never learn it.

She had reason to doubt him; he was real good at planning but real bad at doing.

What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.

The Warrior of the Light knows that everyone is afraid of everyone else.

Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.

Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't. But you can't tell the difference when you have no real information. Fear can create even more imaginary obstacles than ignorance can. That's why the smallest step away from speculation and into reality can be an amazing relief...The Reality Solution means: Do it before you're ready.

This was another of our fears: that Life wouldn't turn out to be like Literature.

A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.

I may not be sure if monsters exist, but I’d rather live my life in doubt than be persuaded by a real experience of one.

Real life is, to most men, a long second best, a perpetual compromise between the ideal and the possible.

They say you never know who's the real hero and who's the real coward until you're looking death in the face. I've always been afraid of plenty of things, but fear isn't what makes you a coward. It's how depraved your heart becomes when fear gets pumped through it.

HELPED are those who lose their fear of death; theirs is the power to envision the future in a blade of grass.

Why aren't you afraid of me? I've seen my death, and you're not it.

Fear has its uses but cowardice has none.

The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

Perhaps we clutch at life only when we have never lived or trusted it. Then death seems the last and greatest defeat, the end of something never felt.

You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice?