Fear Quotes

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.

To conquer fear is the best way to gain your self-confidence.

But that inadequacy, or feeling of inadequacy, never really goes away. You just have to trudge ahead in the rain, regardless.

There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

Create delusion. Establish doubt. Feed paranoia.

Fear the vulture and the vulture will come. Fear nothing and you are the vulture.

But you cant shut everyone out. I mean you have to have someone to love. . .someone to hold on to. . . someone--

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Instead of harboring fear and suspicion we need to think of other people not as ‘them’ but ‘us’.

Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear.

Do the very best you can.

Don't resent, fear, or judge the next generation, believe in them.

The black­est des­pair that can take hold of any soci­ety is the fear that liv­ing hon­estly is futile.

I suffer from two phobias: 1) Phobia-Phobia, the fear that you're unable to get scared, and 2) Xylophataquieopiaphobia, the fear of not pronouncing words correctly.

Conscience, that boon companion who sets a man free under the strong breastplate of innocence, that bids him on and fear not.

My fear was like a stray dog, roving the neighborhood of my life, looking for a new source of worry.

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning. I wanted my death to be something the people could relate to, a basis for further mobilization of the community.

If I have even just a little sense, I will walk on the main road and my only fear will be of straying from it. Keeping to the main road is easy, But people love to be sidetracked.

Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.

I really believe that all of us have a lot of darkness in our souls. Anger, rage, fear, sadness. I don't think that's only reserved for people who have horrible upbringings.

Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism."

A bubble of fear passes up my spine. It's the feeling of standing on ice and suddenly hearing it crack under your weight - both thrilling and terrifying together.

Persecutors fear loss of control. Rescuers fear loss of purpose. Rescuers need Victims-someone to protect or fix-to bolster their self-esteem.

Action cures fear. Indecision, postponement, on the other hand, fuel fear.

I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.

A wise person does not fear the edges and fringes, but studies them. Indeed, he or she is often in them, working to make change happen.

What do you fear, most of all? The possibility that love may not be enough.

Remember that the more you know, the less you fear.

Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.

A lack of communication leaves fear and doubt.

Our refusal to fear reminds the devil that he is finished!

If leaders don't have an antidote for fear they will be crushed by it. What is your antidote?

...love rather than fear...this radical philosophy is coming from me, an avowed misanthrope...surely there is hope for us all.

Where,oh,where are the eternity-conscious believers? Where are the souls white-hot for God because they fear His holy name and presence and so live with eternity's values in view?

Don't regret the past or fear the future. Both bring misery through self-doubt.

I want to be left alone.

hate has no literature: real fear and real hate have no words

You traveled the world... Now you must journey inwards... to what you really fear... it's inside you.

If you're living your life in fear, then you're just not living.

I was brought up by two extremely intelligent people who gave me the greatest gift that man can give anyone, and that is freedom from fear.

Never expect what you write to be any good, 'cause it's the fear of writing badly that stops you from finding the right words.

It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

Fear can be overcome only by Faith.

New images surround us everywhere. They are invisible only because of sterile routine convention and fear.

The heart never grows better by age; I fear rather worse, always harder. A young liar will be an old one, and a young knave will only be a greater knave as he grows older.

I'd learned a thing or two. Hope strengthens. Fear kills.

Sometimes the answer to fear does not lie in trying to explain away the causes, sometimes the answer lies in courage.