The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
When I was younger I feared the dark, wondering what evil was watching me. Now it's different, for now it's a game of sneaking the light back on and laughing at how quickly the evil fleas.
War should neither be feared nor provoked.
We need to teach how doubt is not to be feared but welcomed. It's OK to say, "I don't know. "
Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more forever?
Like everyone in his right mind, I feared Santa Claus.
. . . when it came to dying, I was scared. Not of being dead, that I could not comprehend, to be nothing was impossible to grasp and therefore really nothing to be scared of, but the dying itself I could comprehend, the very instant when you know that now comes what you have always feared, and you suddenly realise that every chance of being the person you really wanted to be, is gone for ever, and the one you were, is the one those around you will remember.
Friends are to be feared, not so much for what they make us do as what they keep us from doing.
Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.
Those who love to be feared, fear to be loved. Some fear them, but they fear everyone.
It was not death she feared. It was misunderstanding.
I've never feared the unexpected.
For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both.
He loved the people just as much as he feared and detested persons.
Human misery universally arises from some error that man admits as true. We confound our fears with the idea feared, and place the evil in the thing seen or believed. Here is a great error, for we never see what we are afraid of.
One is more desirable when loved, not feared.
Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.
The Russians feared Ike. They didn't fear me.
Men are eager to tread underfoot what they have once too much feared.
My soul is full of whispered song,-My blindness is my sight;The shadows that I feared so longAre full of life and light.