Death is a fearful thing. [ William Shakespeare, Measure for Measure ]
O pilot! 'tis a fearful night,
There's danger on the deep. [ Thomas Haynes Bayly, The Pilot ]
Oh, God! it is a fearful thing
To see the human soul take wing
In any shape, in any mood! [ Byron ]
Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearfuL [ William Shakespeare ]
A six-foot suckling, mincing in its gait.
Affected, peevish, prim and delicate;
Fearful it seemed, tho' of athletic make,
Lest brutal breezes should so roughly shake
Its tender form, and savage motion spread
O'er its pale cheeks, the horrid manly red. [ Churchill ]
Distrust and darkness of a future state
Make poor mankind so fearful of their fate,
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear
To be we know not what, we know not where. [ John Dryden ]
Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind
And makes it fearful and degenerate. [ William Shakespeare ]
As well the noble savage of the field
Might tamely couple with the fearful ewe;
Tigers might engender with the timid deer;
Wild, muddy boars defile the cleanly ermine,
Or vultures sort with doves; as I with thee. [ Lee ]
The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself. [ Carlyle ]
There is nothing more fearful than imagination without taste. [ Goethe ]
And then it started like a guilty thing Upon a fearful summons. [ William Shakespeare ]
Melancholy is a fearful gift. What is it but the telescope of truth! [ Byron ]
Be fearful only of thyself, and stand in awe of none more than of thine own conscience. [ Thomas Fuller ]
It is a fearful mistake to believe that because our wishes are not accomplished they can do no harm. [ Gertrude ]
Temper your enjoyments with prudence, lest there be written upon your heart that fearful word satiety.
[ Quarles ]
Death is but another phase of life, which also is awful, fearful, and wonderful, reaching to heaven and hell. [ Carlyle ]
Intellectual progress, separated from moral progress, gives a fearful result: a being possessing nothing but brains. [ A. de Gasparin ]
It was the nightingale, and not the lark, that pierced the fearful hollow of thine ear; nightly she sings on yon pomegranate tree. [ William Shakespeare ]
Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of Necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men. [ Socrates ]
God hides some ideal in every human soul. At some time in our life we feel a trembling, fearful longing to do some good thing. Life finds its noblest spring of excellence in this hidden impulse to do our best. [ Robert Collyer ]
Observation made in the cloister or in the desert will generally be as obscure as the one and as barren as the other; but he that would paint with his pencil must study originals, and not be over-fearful of a little dust. [ Colton ]
'Tis the merry nightingale that crowds and hurries and precipitates, with fast thick warble, his delicious notes, as he were fearful that an April night would be too short for him to utter forth his love-chant, and disburden his full soul of all its music. [ Coleridge ]