Human Fear Quotes

Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror.

I think that when we wrestle with death... we start fearing life, because then we come to terms with something that is inevitable.

We should be afraid of sharks half as much as sharks should be afraid of us.

All fears are one fear. Just the fear of death. And we accept it, then we are at peace.

We fear men so much, because we fear God so little.

He who fears the face of God does not fear the face of man. He who fears the face of man does not fear the face of God.

Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man.

Evil is simple and empty. Evil has no mysterious depths. We stare into a dark hole and fill it with our fears, but it is only a hole.

Mankind fears an evil man but heaven does not.

I don't remember the first image of a werewolf I saw, but I suspect it was the hybrid type, up on two legs, with long limbs, hair, claw-like fingernails and lupine head. To me there's nothing scary about complete transformation from human into wolf. Wolves aren't scary. They're dangerous, yes, but so are geese, in the wrong mood. What's scary is seeing the human in the wolf but knowing it's beyond the reach of reason or emotional appeal. That's where the horror and dread kicks in.

This is something I've struggled with a lot: how to relate to the fear in a constructive way. It's not that you eliminate the fear. We have all the fears. That's natural; that's human beings. But how do you deal with the fears, how do you engage with your fears in a way that's productive?

Sharks are just evil bastards. I'm quite happy if all the sharks just went, because they eat fish and us. And we need the fish.

Whenever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fear and many run away. . . The risk of inner experience, the adventure of the spirit, is in any case alien to most human beings. The possibility that such experience might have psychic reality is anathema to them.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

I think that's still the most primal fear of all humans: to be eaten.

Deep within every man there lies the dread of being alone in the world, forgotten by God, overlooked among the tremendous household of millions and millions.

Death is only frightening from the near side.

Nobody is afraid of the unknown, what you really fear is the loss of the known.

Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be.

An [officer] is still a human being. When that fear kicks in, you never know what can happen.

Terror consists mostly of useless cruelties perpetrated by frightened people in order to reassure themselves.

If I hazard a guess as to the most endemic, prevalent anxiety among human beings-including fear of death, abandonment, loneliness-nothing is more prevalent than the fear of one another.