Natural Fear Quotes

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Happy the hare at morning, for she cannot read The hunter's waking thoughts.

The only thing we are naturally afraid of is pain, or loss of pleasure. And because these are not annexed to any shape, colour, or size of visible objects, we are frighted of none of them, till either we have felt pain from them, or have notions put into us that they will do us harm.

The ocean is an object of no small terror.

I think that human nature is scared of change and justifies it in all sort of ways.

Identifying and overcoming natural fear is one of the pleasing struggles intrinsic to climbing.

We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends.

Animals of all classes, old and young, shrink with instinctive fear from any strange object approaching them.

Sweetie, nothing that flies looks safe, including birds.

My sole defense against the natural horror which death inspires is to love beyond it.

I've always had a natural fear of the police, or abuse of their power.

There's something very terrifying about that and very primal about it. It's my belief that what horror does for people is that it provides that primal fear that, when we were wild hunter-gatherers, we had as part of our natural lives because maybe something was trying to hunt and gather you as well. We don't have that anymore in life and that's one of the things that horror films and action films provide for us.