Fear Quotes

We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason if we... remember that we are not descended from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular.
Edward R. Murrow
Marie ebner von eschenbach, aphorisms, 1905 - fear not those who argue but those who dodge....
Fear clouds your mind, it distracts your thoughts, to survive in dangerous times you must learn to supress it and think.
Unknown
Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.
Helen Kelle
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
Yoda, Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Henry david thoreau, walden - petty fears and petty pleasures are but the...
Let them hate us, as long as they fear us.
Caligula (Gaius Caesar)
Marianne williamson, return to love, 1992 - our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate....
The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self - Two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation.
Pope John Paul II
Fear is a journey, a terrible journey, but sorrow is at least an arriving.
Alan Paton, Cry the Beloved Country
The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
Elbert Hubbard
To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.
Katherine Patterson, Jacob Have I Loved
What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.
Unknown
That which we fear to touch is often the fabric of our salvation.
Don DeLillo, White Noise
Many that live deserve death. And some die that deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then be not too eager to deal out death in the name of justice, fearing for your own safety. Even the wise cannot see all ends.
J. R. R. Tolkien, The Lord Of the Rings, Book Four, Chapter One
Courage is one step ahead of fear.
Coleman Young
Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.
Natalie Goldberg
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson
Do what you fear, and the death of fear is certain.
Anthony Robbins
The anvil fears no blows.
Romanian Prove
The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.
Publilius Syrus
There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.
Robert Elwood Bly
Do not fear death so much, but rather the inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht, The Mother, 1932
Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?
Ernest Thompson Seton
When an individual fear or apathy passes by the unfortunate, life is of no account.
Haniel Long
Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid.
Publilius Syrus
Since I do not foresee that atomic energy is to be a great boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing order into its international affairs, which, without the pressure of fear, it would not do.
Albert Einstein
Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.
Sophocles
I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go.
Theodore Roethke
If we deny love that is given to us, if we refuse to give love because we fear pain or loss, then our lives will be empty, our loss greater.
Unknown
Our fear of death is like our fear that summer will be short, but when we have had our swing of pleasure, our fill of fruit, and our swelter of heat, we say we have had our day.
John Donne
Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - Not absence of fear.
Mark Twain
So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.
William Shakespeare, "Hamlet", Act 4 scene 5
Those who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. Thus, there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.
Aristotle
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
Eric Hoffer, The Passionate State of Mind, 1954
We are taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they are of equal value as happiness excitement and inspiration.
Alanis Morissette
He who fears he will suffer, already suffers because of his fear.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
It is only by following your deepest instinct that you can lead a rich life, and if you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, then your life will be safe, expedient and thin.
Katharine Butler Hathaway