#fear

And now she was colder by the hour, more dead with every breath I took. I thought: That is the fear: I have lost something important, and I cannot find it, and I need it. It is fear like if someone lost his glasses and went to the glasses store and they told him the world run out of glasses and he would just have to do without. ↗

— John Green

#fear #lost-love #missing #sudden #death

I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane. ↗

— Kristin Davis

#buy #faced #fears #few #go

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. ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#american #close #done #even #fear

Mmmm... the comedy that matters is the comedy you pull out of thin air. It's a bit like when something funny has happened and you try to explain it to someone else and end up saying, 'You had to be there.' ↗

— Jack Dee

#appear #excited #fear #getting #going

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing. ↗

— Billy Bob Thornton

#fear #flying #i

Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs. ↗

— Denis Diderot

#disturbances #fearful #mask #more #never

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear. ↗

— Joan Didion

#fear #find #i #i see #i write

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#attempt #become #beware #endeavoring #fearful

Fear makes us feel our humanity. ↗

— Benjamin Disraeli

#feel #humanity #makes #our #us

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war. ↗