Quotes about fear

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“Better to be a laughing-stock than lose the fort for fear of being one.”

“I had never feared insomnia before--like prison, wouldn't it just give you more time to read?”

“Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself when apparent to the eyes; and we find the burden of anxiety greater, by much, than the evil which we are anxious about :…”

“I do what I do without hope of reward or fear of punishment. I do not require Heaven or Hell to bribe or scare me into acting decently.”

“You'd be surprised how many people in the modern age no longer fear zombies as much as teletubies.”

“At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.”

“In a futile attempt to erase our past, we deprive the community of our healing gift. If we conceal our wounds out of fear and shame, our inner darkness can neither be illuminated nor become a light for others.”

“The brain controls pain. It controls fear. Sleep. Empathy. Hunger. Everything we associate with the heart or the soul or the nervous system is actually controlled by the brain. Everything. What if you could control it?”

“Because for all the changes, some things were immutable truths: friendship transcends all barriers, understanding trumps fear, and great power can always be surmounted by determination.”

“If you fear nothing, then you are not brave. You are merely too foolish to be afraid.”

“Yet he who reigns within himself, and rules
Passions, desires, and fears, is more a king.”

“Procrastination is not Laziness", I tell him. "It is fear. Call it by its right name, and forgive yourself.”

“I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back….”

“Beauty and fear make uneasy companions”

“Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.”

“Nor does God whisper through the trees. His voice is not to be mistaken. When men hear it they fall to their knees and their souls are riven and they cry out to Him and there is no fear but only wildness of heart that springs from such longing…”

“Boldness in battle is nothing out of the way… but to face down fear in cold blood is rare in any man.”

“Not that I’ve ever feared a fight or backed down from one –(Wren)
That’s the truth. I swear he’s half beta fish. He’d fight his own reflection to prove a point. (Maggie)”

“At the beauty of what she had stumbled onto, at the fear that something terrible would happen because she was not vigilant enough. She cried at the fear of something so good that she would not be brave enough to bear it.”

“That's not a real answer.'
Says who?'
Says me. I mean real fear, like of failure, of death, of regret. Like that. Something that keeps you awake nights, questioning your very existence.'
Clowns.”

“For fear you will be alone
you do so many things
that aren’t you at all.”

“It's knowing I'll never have what she has--a beauty so powerful it brings things to you. I fear I will always have to chase things I want. I'll always have to wonder whether I'm truly wanted or whether I've just been settled for.”

“If a person fears God, she has no reason to fear anything else.”

“Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.”

“Remember that fear causes to happen the very things it fears. That's why fear should be unknown to us.”

“Tory a father isn’t supposed to fear his fourteen-year-old daughter. That being sad, you terrify me.”

“All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears - of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, of speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words "Some Assembly Required".”

“Meet this transient world with neither grasping nor fear, trust the unfolding of life, and you will attain true serenity.”

“Sir Topher finally looked up. “Because any hope beyond that, my boy, would be too much. I feared we would drown in it.”
"Then I choose to drown,” Finnikin said. “In hope. Rather than float into nothing.”

“Alone. It's one of those small words that means entirely too much. Like fear. Or trust.”

“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”

“We get used to living one way, even if it's a bad way or a hard one. When that's gone, there's a hole to fill. It's in our nature to try to fill it with anxieties and fears. It can take time to fill it with good things instead.”

“There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks through the city, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare speak.”

“Fear--who cares?”

“When faith in our freedom gives way to fear of our freedom, silencing the minority view becomes the operative protocol.”

“It's fear that makes us lose our conscience. It's also what transforms us into cowards.”

“Only those few who are able to surpass their fear of death completely can fully experience the highest forms of life; not the mundane life of the mortal, but the godly life of the resurrected.”

“I had nothing to fear from my father.
Except his disappointment.
Which was no small thing.”

“To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds”

“There’s a reason we are drawn to the light. A reason why we fear darkness. It’s important to be terrified and unnerved about certain things. That way we will choose another path. The path that leads us to truth and love.”

“Hope strengthens. Fear kills.”

“The meaning I picked, the one that changed my life: Overcome fear, behold wonder.”

“I fear that I am losing my mind. But really, it would not be such a precious thing to lose, as it only causes me pain.”

“Creative scientists and saints expect revelation and do not fear it. Neither do children. But as we grow up and we are hurt, we learned not to trust.”

“As to whether the depression will come back, it is every depressive's fear.”

“The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.”

“Farewell Hope, and with Hope farewell Fear”

“And yet she can tell he is visited by fears so immense, so multiple, that she can almost feel the terror pulsing inside him. As though some beast breathes all the time at the windowpanes of his mind.”

“Safer to be feared than loved.”

“It is not power that corrupts but fear.”

“A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war: wide-awake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it might never live to regret it”

“Fear separates--makes us feel alone--disconnected--while love--love does just the opposite--it unites. {shadowland}”

“Arm yourself, my heart: the thing that you must do is fearful, yet inevitable.”

“Maybe it was inertia -or worse, fear- that was keeping me in the same place.”

“There is a fearful splendor in absolute desolation.”

“That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.”

“Nothing reaches inside you and grabs you by the guts the way fear does.”

“Enough," Curran said. An unmistakable command saturated his voice. Jim clicked his mouth shut. I crossed my arms. "I'm sorry, is this the part where I fall to my knees and shiver in fear, Your Furriness? Silly me, I didn't get the memo.”

“Into the dark night
Resignedly I go,
I am not so afraid of the dark night
As the friends I do not know,
I do not fear the night above
As I fear the friends below.”

“There's a gift in your lap and it's beautifully wrapped and it's not your birthday. You feel wonderful, you feel like somebody knows you're alive, you feel fear because it could be a bomb, because you think you're that important.”

“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.”

“" screamed Picchu from somewhere in the background. "Do it now and avoid the June rush! Fear death by water!”

“there is no harm in being afraid. The only harm is in doing what Fear tells you. Fear is not your master! Laugh in his face and he will run away.”

“If theater is ritual, then dance is too… It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.”

“Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.”

“I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.”

“A compassion swirled form nowhere in the high I was lost in. She needed me. She needed me to accept her for what she was. And when I realized that I had it within myself to give her at least this small part of me, the last of my fear melted away.”

“The knowledge of the past stays with us. To let go is to
release the images and emotions, the grudges and fears, the
clingings and disappointments of the past that bind our
spirit.”

“Fear is an instinct, like hunger or anger. We need it to help us survive, and it is nothing to be ashamed of. It lets us know whether we should fight or flee.”

“We can get you a throne with snakes. I’ll stand next to you and roar at anybody who fails to grovel. Fear Kate Daniels. She is a mighty and terrible ruler. Grendel can anoint the petitioners with his vomit. It’ll be great…”

“Why do we even bother? Why do we make ourselves so open to such easy damage? Is it all loneliness? Is it all fear? Or is it just to experience those narcotic moments of belonging with someone else?”

“This is our big chance to see what people think of us. The real us. We have to show em there's nothing to be afraid of. If we don't get over our fears, they never will.”

“It is always the false that makes you suffer, the false desires and fears, the false values and ideas, the false relationships between people. Abandon the false and you are free of pain; truth makes happy, truth liberates.”

“There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.”

“I have seen this too many times before. The unwarranted devotion. Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can’t deal with the fear of being alone. The hope tinged with doubt, and the doubt tinged with hope.”

“It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.”

“Perhaps life is just that… a dream and a fear.”

“Every fear hides a wish.”

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

“You can figure out what the villain fears by his choice of weapons.”

“The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.”

“I wish there is a world where any one can know the truth and speak there mind with freedom without having to fear for their lives (Rinko, Basara, Vol. 13)”

“War is not heroic. War is not exhilarating. War is full of despair. It is dark. It is dreadful. It is a thing of sorrow and gloom. That is why people fear war. That is why people choose to avoid it.
~Izuru Kira”

“People always fear what they don't understand, Evangeline. History proves that.”

“Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life”

“The ego is the false self-born out of fear and defensiveness.”

“Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs — in time, in space, and in potential — the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors.”

“Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.”

“Life was what happened when all the what-if’s didn’t, when what you dreamed or hoped or – in this case – feared might come to pass passed by instead.”

“Excessive fear and self-doubt that were the greatest detractors of personal genius.”

“… one could not be truly lost if one knew one's own heart. But I fear I may be lost without knowing yours.”

“Knowledge was more powerful than fear. Love was stronger than hate.”

“My "fear" is my substance, and probably the best part of me.”

“Many men spend their lives living in the wrong corner of their souls, mainly out of fear of what they might find on the other side.”

“The truth is, our civilization is not Christian; it is a tragic compound of great ideal and fearful practice, of loving charity and fearful clutching of possessions.”

“The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.”

“In order for one to learn the important lessons of life, one must first overcome a fear each day.”

“The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to be feared that to be loved. Whether they can confess this or not, men know that just is not true.”

“Is it better to be loved or feared?”