Definition of fears

"fears" in the noun sense

1. fear, fearfulness, fright

an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)

2. concern, care, fear

an anxious feeling

"care had aged him"

"they hushed it up out of fear of public reaction"

3. fear, reverence, awe, veneration

a feeling of profound respect for someone or something

"the fear of God"

"the Chinese reverence for the dead"

"the French treat food with gentle reverence"

"his respect for the law bordered on veneration"

"fears" in the verb sense

1. fear

be afraid or feel anxious or apprehensive about a possible or probable situation or event

"I fear she might get aggressive"

2. fear, dread

be afraid or scared of be frightened of

"I fear the winters in Moscow"

"We should not fear the Communists!"

3. fear

be sorry used to introduce an unpleasant statement

"I fear I won't make it to your wedding party"

4. fear

be uneasy or apprehensive about

"I fear the results of the final exams"

5. reverence, fear, revere, venerate

regard with feelings of respect and reverence consider hallowed or exalted or be in awe of

"Fear God as your father"

"We venerate genius"

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Quotations for fears

He who loves, fears. [ Italian Proverb ]

Truth fears no trial. [ Proverb ]

Truth fears no colours. [ Proverb ]

The anvil fears no blows. [ Proverb ]

He that fears death lives not. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Fears are divided in the midst. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Fear that man who fears not God. [ Abdl-el-Kader ]

The scalded dog fears cold water. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He either fears his fate too much,
Or his deserts are small.
That dares not put it to the touch
To gain or lose it all. [ Marquis Of Montrose ]

He either fears his fate too much,
Or his deserts are small,
Who dares not put it to the touch
To win or lose it all. [ Marquis of Montrose ]

He that hopes no good fears no ill. [ Proverb ]

No one loves the man whom he fears. [ Aristotle ]

Hopes and fears chequer human life. [ Proverb ]

O, though oft oppressed and lonely,
All my fears are laid aside,
If I but remember only
Such as these have lived and died! [ Longfellow ]

Yet, no - not words, for they
But half can tell love's feeling;
Sweet flowers alone can say
What passion fears revealing:
A once bright rose's wither'd leaf,
A tow'ring lily broken -
Oh, these may paint a grief
No words could ever have spoken. [ Moore ]

Who trusts in God fears not his rod. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

By daring, great fears are concealed. [ Lucan ]

He never is crowned
With immortality, who fears to follow
Where airy voices lead. [ Keats ]

A good life fears not life nor death. [ Proverb ]

Welcome as happy tidings after fears. [ Otway ]

Love is a thing full of anxious fears. [ Ovid ]

Press onward through each varying hour;
Let no weak fears thy course delay;
Immortal being! feel thy power,
Pursue thy bright and endless way. [ Andrews Norton ]

First our pleasures die - and then
Our hopes, and then our fears - and when
These are dead, the debt is due.
Dust claims dust - and we die too. [ Shelley ]

Fears of sinning let in thoughts of sin. [ Crabbe ]

Whom a serpent has bitten fears a lizard. [ Italian Proverb ]

He that hopes not for good fears not evil. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Fears of the brave and follies of the wise. [ Johnson ]

Who knows nothing base, fears nothing known. [ Owen Meredith ]

Forgot the blush that virgin fears impart
To modest cheeks, and borrowed one from art. [ Cowper ]

An Englishman fears contempt more than death. [ Goldsmith ]

He that fears danger in time seldom feels it. [ Proverb ]

I knew him tyrannous, and tyrants' fears
Decrease not, but grow faster than the years. [ William Shakespeare ]

He that always fears dangers always feels it. [ Proverb ]

Despotic conscience rules our hopes and fears. [ Ovid ]

The absent danger greater still appears
Less fears he, who is near the thing he fears. [ Daniel ]

The rose is fairest when it is budding new,
And hope is brightest when it dawns from fears;
The rose is sweetest washed with morning dew,
And love is loveliest when embalmed in tears. [ Sir Walter Scott ]

He that fears you present will hate you absent. [ Proverb ]

He that fears every bush must never go a birding. [ Proverb ]

Fancy brings us as many vain hopes as idle fears. [ Humboldt ]

He has but one great fear that fears to do wrong. [ Bovee ]

Prosperity takes no counsel and fears no calamity. [ Proverb ]

He that fears not the future may enjoy the present. [ Proverb ]

Who fears to offend takes the first step to please. [ Gibber ]

He that fears leaves, let him not go into the wood. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Let not him that fears feathers come among wildfowl. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

And he that lives to live forever never fears dying. [ William Penn ]

Sure there is none but fears a future state;
And when the most obdurate swear they do not.
Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues. [ Dryden ]

He that hath right, fears; he that hath wrong, hopes. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Where love is great the littlest doubts are fear;
Where little fears grow great, great love grows there. [ William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Sc. 2 ]

He who fears death has already lost the life be covets. [ Cato ]

The guilty man fears the law; the innocent man fortune. [ Proverb ]

The wicked heart never fears God, but when it thunders. [ Proverb ]

Sweet flowers alone can say what passion fears revealing. [ Moore ]

The fears of old age disturb us, yet how few attain it? — [ La Bruyre ]

He who kills a lion when absent, fears a mouse when present. [ Proverb ]

Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease. [ Mrs. Browning ]

He who owes a hundred, and has a hundred and one, fears nobody. [ Proverb ]

If your desires be endless, your cares and fears will be so too. [ Proverb ]

I fear God, and next to God I chiefly fear him who fears Him not. [ Saadi ]

He that hath a will to die by himself. Fears it not from another. [ William Shakespeare ]

He is a king who fears nothing; he is a king who desires nothing. [ Seneca ]

Man must have some fears, hopes, and cares, for the coming morrow. [ Schiller ]

Regard not dreams, since they are but the images of our hopes and fears. [ Cato ]

No condition so low but may have hopes, none so high but may have fears. [ Proverb ]

The man who fears nothing is as powerful as he who is feared by everybody. [ Schiller ]

Trust in that man's promise who dares to refuse that which he fears he cannot perform. [ Spurgeon ]

From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed. [ Wordsworth ]

Beauty, frail flower that every season fears, blooms in thy colors for a thousand years. [ Pope ]

The upright, if he suffer calumny to move him, fears the tongue of man more than the eye of God. [ Colton ]

Uncertainty! fell demon of our fears! The human soul, that can support despair, supports not thee. [ Mallet ]

Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. [ Bacon ]

Such a one, in reading your work, admires every line, but, at the bottom of his soul, he fears and hates you. [ Boileau ]

For cowards the road of desertion should be left open. They will carry over to the enemy nothing but their fears. [ Bovee ]

Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of heart, are frequently the lot of the most excellent persons. [ Thomas à Kempis ]

Sweetness of spirit and sunshine is famous for dispelling fears and difficulties; patience is a mighty help to the burden-bearer. [ James Hamilton ]

He who fears to venture as far as his heart urges and his reason permits, is a coward; he who ventures further than he intended to go, is a slave. [ Heine ]

Immortality o'ersweeps all pains, all tears, all time, all fears, and peals, like the eternal thunder of the deep, into my ears this truth: Thou livest forever! [ Byron ]

Don't waste your life in doubts and fears: spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

No receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession. [ Bacon ]

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears otherwise gives advantage to the danger; it is less folly not to endeavor the prevention of the evil thou fearest than to fear the evil which thy endeavor cannot prevent. [ Quarles ]

What laborious days, what watchings by the midnight lamp, what rackings of the brain, what hopes and fears, what long lives of laborious study, are here sublimized into print, and condensed into the narrow compass of these surrounding shelves! [ Horace Smith ]

There is no power like that of oratory. Caesar controlled men by exciting their fears; Cicero, by captivating their affections and swaying their passions. The influence of the one perished with its author; that of the other continues to this day. [ Henry Clay ]

As the rose-tree is composed of the sweetest flowers, and the sharpest thorns; as the heavens are sometimes overcast — alternately tempestuous and serene — so is the life of man intermingled with hopes and fears, with joys and sorrows, with pleasures and with pains. [ Burton ]

As in labor, the more one doth exercise, the more one is enabled to do, strength growing upon work; so, with the use of suffering, men's minds get the habit of suffering, and all fears and terrors are to them but as a summons to battle, whereof they know beforehand they shall come off victorious. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Wherever there is a sky above him and a world around him, the poet is in his place; for here too is man's existence, with its infinite longings and small acquirings; its ever-thwarted, ever-renewed endeavours; its unspeakable aspirations, its fears and hopes that wander through eternity; and all the mystery of brightness and of gloom that it was ever made of, in any age or climate, since man first began to live. [ Carlyle ]

When the dusk of evening had come on, and not a sound disturbed the sacred stillness of the place, - when the bright moon poured in her light on tomb and monument, on pillar, wall, and arch, and most of all (it seemed to them) upon her quiet grave, - in that calm time, when all outward things and inward thoughts teem with assurances of immortality, and worldly hopes and fears are humbled in the dust before them, - then, with tranquil and submissive hearts they turned away, and left the child with God. [ Dickens ]

If thy mother be a widow, give her double honor, who now acts the part of a double parent; remember her nine month's burden, and her tenth month's travel; forget not her indulgence, when thou didst hang upon her tender breast; call to mind her prayers for thee before thou earnest into the world; and her cares for thee when thou wert come into the world; remember her secret groans, her affectionate tears, her broken slumbers, her daily fears, her nightly frights; relieve her wants, cover her imperfections, comfort her age, and the widow's husband will be the orphan's father. [ F. Quarles ]

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