Quotes: Fear

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

In masks outrageous and austere, The years go by in single file; But none has merited my fear, And none has quite escaped my smile.

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one’s children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.

This fear of death infused me with the desire to live, and to live harder.

Not one has shown an iota of fear of death. They want to end this agony.

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies.