Fear Quotes

“To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,Gives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe,And so your follies fight against yourself.Fear, and be slain--so worse can come to fight;And fight and die is death destroying death,Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.”

“You must not thinkThat we are made of stuff so fat and dullThat we can let our beard be shook with dangerAnd think it pastime.”

“Doubt is a thief that often makes us fear to tread where we might have won.”

“Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.”

“There is none but heWhose being I do fear; and under himMy genius is rebuked, as it is saidMark Antony's was by Caesar.”

“In the night, imagining some fear,How easy is a bush supposed a bear!”

“Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss.”

“Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear.”

“Against love's fire fear`s frost hath dissolution”

“Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse.”

“The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death.”

“To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe.”

“But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.”

“The coward dies a thousand deaths, the valiant, only once!”

“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.”

“To fear the worst oft cures the worst.”

“The fear's as bad as falling.”

“To saucy doubts and fears.”

“Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear.”

“Why, what should be the fear?I do not set my life at a pin's fee.”

“Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more.”

“Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.”

“Of all base passions, fear is the most accursed.”

“As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.”

“What man dare, I dare.Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,The armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger;Take any shape but that, and my firm nervesShall never tremble.”