robin's quotes

"A man who has been in danger,
When he comes out of it forgets his fears,
And sometimes he forgets his promises."

"Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake."

"I have almost forgot the taste of fears.
The time has been my senses would have cool'd
To hear a night shriek, and my fell of hair
Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
As life were in't. I have supp'd full with horrors;
Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts,
Cannot once start me."

"All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears--of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, or speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words "Some Assembly Required."

"The only thing we have to fear is fear it'self - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified, terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance."

"What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope."

"Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is."

"What are fears but voices airy?
Whispering harm where harm is not.
And deluding the unwary
Till the fatal bolt is shot!"

"Why are we scared to die? Do any of us remember being scared when we were born?"

"The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear."