Quotes about fear
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Source: Gone with the Wind
Variant: I used to think as I looked at the Hollywood night, «There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.
Source: The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence
“Hello, fear. Thank you for being here. You’re my indication that I’m doing what I need to do.”
Source: Brave Enough
“Men are driven by two principal impulses, either by love or by fear.”
Source: The Discourses
Source: The Akhmatova Journals, Volume I: 1938-1941
Source: Wicked Deeds on a Winter's Night
Source: The Thirst of Satan: Poems of Fantasy and Terror
“There are 6 reasons that a person does anything: Love, faith, greed, boredom, fear… revenge.”
Source: Don't Judge a Girl by Her Cover
“To acknowledge the presence of fear is to give birth to failure.”
Journal entry, "Reading Notes" (1905-1907), quoted in Ruth Elvish Mantz and John Middleton Murry, The Life of Katherine Mansfield (1933), p. 212
“Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.”
“Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends.”
Don't Fall Off the Mountain http://books.google.com/books?id=f6yc35pUhEwC&q=%22The+more+I+traveled+the+more+I+realized+that+fear+makes+strangers+of+people+who+should+be+friends%22&pg=PA160#v=onepage (1970)
Variant: The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.
Source: Heart of the Matter
Source: Revolutionary Suicide (1973), p. 190
Source: Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 32, “Coppers, Cobblers and Crowds” (p. 227)
Source: Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage
“When you make friends with fear, it can’t rule you.”
Source: Traveling Mercies: Some Thoughts on Faith
“Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.”
Variant: Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.”" -
Source: The Name of the Rose
Source: The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 4: 1944-1947
“If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.”
Source: Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
Why I Am An Agnostic (1929)
Source: Why I Am An Agnostic and Other Essays
“I had forgotten to fear him, from too much time spent too close.”
Source: Uprooted
Variant: Just as when we come into the world, when we die we are afraid of the unknown. But the fear is something from within us that has nothing to do with reality. Dying is like being born: just a change.
Source: The House of the Spirits
“Really, it was difficult to determine which I had most reason to fear—dogs, alligators or men!”
Source: Twelve Years a Slave
Source: The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration
Source: The Seven Storey Mountain (1948)
Context: Indeed, the truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you, in proportion to your fear of being hurt. The one who does most to avoid suffering is, in the end, the one who suffers the most: and his suffering comes to him from things so little and so trivial that one can say that it is no longer objective at all. It is his own existence, his own being, that is at once the subject and the source of his pain, and his very existence and consciousness is his greatest torture.
“There is nothing more liberating than having your worst fear realized.”
“we grow fearless when we do the things we fear”
Source: The Secret Letters of the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
Source: The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason
“There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.”
Variant: There can be no hope without fear, and no fear without hope.
Source: It Happened One Autumn
“My fear of abandonment is exceeded only by my terror of intimacy.”
Source: Half of a Yellow Sun
“This feeling will pass. The fear is real but the danger is not.”
Source: Say What You Will
“I wanted to read immediately. The only fear was that of books coming to an end.”
Source: Second Helpings
“People living deeply have no fear of death.”
The Diary Of Anais Nin, Volume Two (1934-1939)
Diary entries (1914 - 1974)
“Courage is not the absence of fear but the awareness that something else is more important.”
Foreword to Prisoners of our Thoughts : Viktor Frankl's Principles at Work (2004), by Alex Pattakos, p. x
This statement has also been attributed to James Neil Hollingsworth (AKA: Ambrose Redmoon) in an article entitled "No Peaceful Warriors!" for Gnosis Magazine #21, in 1991.
Source: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Source: A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of "A Course in Miracles"
Source: The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus (c.1565), Ch. XXV. "Divine Locutions. Discussions on That Subject" ¶ 26 & 27
Variant translation: I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.
Source: The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself
Context: May it please His Majesty that we fear Him whom we ought to fear, and understand that one venial sin can do us more harm than all hell together; for that is the truth. The evil spirits keep us in terror, because we expose ourselves to the assaults of terror by our attachments to honours, possessions, and pleasures. For then the evil spirits, uniting themselves with us, — we become our own enemies when we love and seek what we ought to hate, — do us great harm. We ourselves put weapons into their hands, that they may assail us; those very weapons with which we should defend ourselves. It is a great pity. But if, for the love of God, we hated all this, and embraced the cross, and set about His service in earnest, Satan would fly away before such realities, as from the plague. He is the friend of lies, and a lie himself. He will have nothing to do with those who walk in the truth. When he sees the understanding of any one obscured, he simply helps to pluck out his eyes; if he sees any one already blind, seeking peace in vanities, — for all the things of this world are so utterly vanity, that they seem to be but the playthings of a child, — he sees at once that such a one is a child; he treats him as a child, and ventures to wrestle with him — not once, but often.
May it please our Lord that I be not one of these; and may His Majesty give me grace to take that for peace which is really peace, that for honour which is really honour, and that for delight which is really a delight. Let me never mistake one thing for another — and then I snap my fingers at all the devils, for they shall be afraid of me. I do not understand those terrors which make us cry out, Satan, Satan! when we may say, God, God! and make Satan tremble. Do we not know that he cannot stir without the permission of God? What does it mean? I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself. Satan can do me no harm whatever, but they can trouble me very much, particularly if they be confessors. I have spent some years of such great anxiety, that even now I am amazed that I was able to bear it. Blessed be our Lord, who has so effectually helped me!
Source: The Kiss of Deception
“I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear.”
As quoted in Oprah, in Her Words : Our American Princess (2008) by Tuchy Palmieri, p. 71
Variant: Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Source: By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Book Three, Chapter XXI.
Democracy in America, Volume II (1840), Book Three
“If you must say yes, say it with an open heart. If you must say no, say it without fear.”
“Flight is essential, but I can't let my fear show.”
