Constant Fear Quotes

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

The Negro has the simplest of alternatives: live a life of constant humility or ever-threatening danger.

Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is.

What misery to live in this world! We are like men whose enemies are at the door, who must not lay aside their arms, even while sleeping or eating, and are always in dread lest the foe should enter the fortress by some breach in the walls. O my Lord and my all! How canst thou wish us to prize such a wretched existence?

it's the thing you fear most that walks beside you all the time.

No place is safe - no place is at peace. There is no place where a women and her daughter can hide and be at peace. The war comes through the air, bombs drop in the night. Quiet people go out in the morning, and see air-fleets passing overhead - dripping death - dripping death!

I have been hunted for twenty-one years. I have literally lived in the saddle. I have never known a day of perfect peace.

[I had a sense of interior panic].Always. I didn't really know what to call it for a long time, but I have a friend in Greece who used that word panic a lot, and I found myself resisting it, until I totally accepted that as a precise description of my interior condition. It was mostly panic from one moment to the next. And nothing much else was going on.

I always feel fear, even just in daily life I feel fear.

I felt the same fear in my first fight as I did in my last fight. It never goes away.

And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead!

If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

I'm constantly in fear of having a stroke.

It is becoming a bad dream-- in the daytime as well as at night. I see him nearly all the time and can't get at him, I mustn't show anything, must remain gay while I'm really in despair.

I am not free because I can be exploded anytime.

The idea of feeling displaced, and never feeling safe anywhere in the world, where you always feel like you're safer if you're over there, is not just my experience. If you went to Iran today or an Iranian came to America today, or the fact that there are bombs exploding everywhere, there's just a tremendous sense of fear and feeling a desire for security.

I think people, unfortunately, do live in constant fear.

I'm always fearful of something happening to people I love. That doesn't go away.

I think I've always been paranoid.

There's just no real job security when you're shooting a show about an apocalypse, and anybody could die at any time.

I'm always so terrified that tomorrow no one will watch me anymore or care anymore. Every day, I say that I can't believe this is happening. It's so crazy. Because of that, it makes me work so hard every single day.

If we live in a state of constant fear, can we remain human?

If you're constantly frightened of being unhappy, how bloody exhausting must that be?

We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death and constant fear between. Our love has lifted us up , out of the dreadfulness of merely living.