# Quotes about fear - Quotes: 17 - Authors: 12 - Topic page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear ## Quotes > The timid are always cruel. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md) > Women are so strangely constructed that they have in them darkness as well as light, though it be but a little curtain hung across the sun. And love is the hand that takes the curtain down, a stronger hand than fear, which hung it up. For all the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love. Martin Pippin in the Apple Orchard Topics: [love](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/love.md), [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md) > Fear is the brother of hate. [Larry Niven](https://www.leafyquotes.com/larry-niven.md) · [Ringworld](https://www.leafyquotes.com/larry-niven/ringworld.md) · p. 72 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/larry-niven/ringworld/fear-is-the.md) Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md), [hatred](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/hatred.md) > I fear my ignorance. [Isaac Asimov](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov.md) · [The Gods Themselves](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-gods-themselves.md) · p. 187 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/isaac-asimov/the-gods-themselves/i-fear-my-ignorance.md) Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md) > It is surprising how long it takes to do a simple addition when your life depends on the answer. [Arthur C. Clarke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke.md) · [The Collected Stories Of Arthur C. Clarke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/the-collected-stories-of-arthur-c-clarke.md) · p. 172 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/the-collected-stories-of-arthur-c-clarke/it-is-surprising.md) Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md) > Why should one be afraid of something merely because it is strange? [Arthur C. Clarke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke.md) · [The Collected Stories Of Arthur C. Clarke](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/the-collected-stories-of-arthur-c-clarke.md) · p. 114 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/arthur-c-clarke/the-collected-stories-of-arthur-c-clarke/why-should-one.md) Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md) > The sort of remorse Laurent experienced was purely physical. His body, his irritated nerves and trembling frame alone were afraid of the drowned man. His conscience was for nothing in his terror. He did not feel the least regret at having killed Camille. When he was calm, when the spectre did not happen to be there, he would have committed the murder over again, had he thought his interests absolutely required it. Thérèse Raquin Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md) > For Madame Raquin, there was such a fathomless depth in this thought, that she could neither reason it out, nor grasp it clearly. She experienced but one sensation, that of a horrible disaster; it seemed to her that she was falling into a dark, cold hole. And she said to herself: "I shall be smashed to pieces at the bottom." Thérèse Raquin Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md) > In a moment I knew what had happened. I had slept, and my fire had gone out, and the cold bitterness of death had come over my soul. [H.G. Wells](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells.md) · [The Time Machine](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells/the-time-machine.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/hg-wells/the-time-machine/in-a-moment.md) Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md) > He realized now that to be afraid of this death he was staring at with animal terror meant to be afraid of life. Fear of dying justified a limitless attachment to what is alive in man. And all those who had not made the gestures necessary to live their lives, all those who feared and exalted impotence — they were afraid of death because of the sanction it gave to a life in which they had not been involved. They had not lived enough, never having lived at all. [Albert Camus](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus.md) · [A Happy Death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/a-happy-death.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/albert-camus/a-happy-death/he-realized-now.md) Topics: [death](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/death.md), [life](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/life.md), [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md) > The average man don’t like trouble and danger. [Mark Twain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain.md) · [Adventures of Huckleberry Finn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/adventures-of-huckleberry-finn.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/the-average-man.md) Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md) > I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die; and the wind was trying to whisper something to me, and I couldn’t make out what it was, and so it made the cold shivers run over me. [Mark Twain](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain.md) · [Adventures of Huckleberry Finn](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/adventures-of-huckleberry-finn.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/mark-twain/adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/i-felt-so-lonesome.md) Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md), [loneliness](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/loneliness.md) > You cannot be a hero without being a coward. [George Bernard Shaw](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw.md) · [John Bull's Other Island](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/john-bulls-other-island.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/george-bernard-shaw/john-bulls-other-island/you-cannot-be-a-hero.md) Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md), [courage](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/courage.md) > "Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend," observed the Marquis, "will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof," looking up to it, "shuts out the sky." [Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [A Tale of Two Cities](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities/repression-is-the.md) Topics: [power](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/power.md), [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md) > The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far, we are pursued by nothing else. [Charles Dickens](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens.md) · [A Tale of Two Cities](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities.md) — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/charles-dickens/a-tale-of-two-cities/the-wind-is-rushing.md) Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md) > When I look back on all these worries I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened. The Second World War: Closing The Ring Topics: [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md) > The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril. The Second World War: Closing The Ring · p. 529 Topics: [war](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/war.md), [fear](https://www.leafyquotes.com/topics/fear.md)