Quotes about Fear
For the first time he was face to face with his hovering dread: he was judging where he still adored.
— Edith Wharton
She clung to him desperately, and as he drew her to his knees on the couch she felt as if they were being sucked down together into some bottomless abyss.
— Edith Wharton
It's more real to me here than if I went up, he suddenly heard himself say; and the fear lest that last shadow of reality should lose its edge kept him rooted to his seat as the minutes succeeded each other.
— Edith Wharton
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
— Edmund Burke
Those despotic governments which are founded on the passions of men, and principally upon the passion of fear, keep their chief as much as may be from the public eye. The policy has been the same in many cases of religion.
— Edmund Burke
The very idea of the fabrication of a new government is enough to fill us with disgust and horror.
— Edmund Burke
All general privations are great, because they are all terrible; vacuity, darkness, solitude, and silence .
— Edmund Burke
When you erode the fear of death with the knowledge that you already died [in Christ], you will find yourself moving toward a simple, bold obedience.
— Edward Welch
Fear of man is always part of a triad that includes unbelief and disobedience.
— Edward Welch
You will either fear God or other people. There are no other alternatives.
— Edward Welch
The fear of man is the sinful exaggeration of a normal experience.
— Edward Welch
Worriers are visionaries minus the optimism.
— Edward Welch