Quotes about fear page 4
“Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.”
Stephen King book Different Seasons
Source: Different Seasons
“To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.”
Katherine Paterson book Jacob Have I Loved
Source: Jacob Have I Loved
“Maybe it just means that love can be stronger than fear.”
Source: The Forbidden Game
John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet
then on the shore
Of the wide world I stand alone, and think
Till Love and Fame to nothingness do sink.
"When I have fears that I may cease to be" (1817)
Source: The Complete Poems
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
Harper Lee book To Kill a Mockingbird
Pt. 1, ch. 2
Jean Louise (Scout) Finch
Variant: I never loved reading until I feared I would lose it. One does not love breathing.
Source: To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
“Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance.
-Shekinah”
P. C. Cast book Untamed
Source: Untamed
Umberto Eco book The Name of the Rose
Temi, Adso, i profeti e coloro disposti a morire per la verità, ché di solito fan morire moltissimo con loro, spesso prima di loro, talvolta al posto loro. <br class="br"> William of Baskerville http://books.google.com/books?id=XY2vXKsHbzIC&q=&quot;Fear+prophets+adso+and+those+prepared+to+die+for+the+truth+for+as+a+rule+they+make+many+others+die+with+them+often+before+them+at+times+instead+of+them&quot;&pg=PA549#v=onepage <br class="br">Source: The Name of the Rose (1980)
Bruce Lee (1940–1973) Hong Kong-American actor, martial artist, philosopher and filmmaker
Source: Striking Thoughts (2000), p. 121
Source: Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
“My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.”
Sylvia Plath (1932–1963) American poet, novelist and short story writer
Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Dale Carnegie How to Win Friends and Influence People
Source: How to Win Friends and Influence People
“He who has the truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.”
John Ruskin book The Stones of Venice
Volume III, chapter II, section 99.
The Stones of Venice (1853)
Source: The Stones of Venice: Volume I. The Foundations
Barack Obama (1961) 44th President of the United States of America
2008, Election victory speech (November 2008)
“Limits, like fears, are often just an illusion”
Michael Jordan (1963) American retired professional basketball player and businessman
Hall of Fame induction address, 2009 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf3PYecdgjE&NR=1
“As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.”
William Shakespeare Julius Caesar
Source: Julius Caesar
Gena Showalter (1975) American writer
Source: Through the Zombie Glass
“Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.”
Aldo Leopold book A Sand County Almanac
Source: A Sand County Almanac, 1949, Manitoba: Clandeboye, p. 168.
Source: A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do…”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
“The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.”
John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor
“It is better to be feared than loved.”
Lewis Carroll book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
Source: Alice in Wonderland
“The fear is simply because you are not living with life, You are living in your mind.”
Sadhguru (1957) Yogi, mystic, visionary and humanitarian
“Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.”
Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author
“intelligence is intuitive
you needn't learn to love
unless you've been taught
to fear and hate”
Saul Williams (1972) American singer, musician, poet, writer, and actor
Source: , said the shotgun to the head.
“Death frees from the fear of dying”
Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist
Source: Veronika Decides to Die
“A life lived in fear… is a life half-lived.”
Baz Luhrmann (1962) Australian film director, screenwriter and producer
Source: Strictly Ballroom
“Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear—love did.”
Patricia Briggs book Frost Burned
Source: Frost Burned
Christopher Paolini book Inheritance
Murtagh, in parting words to Eragon
Source: Inheritance (2011)
Context: When you teach them—teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what is right.
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
The Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers
“Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.”
Jean De La Fontaine (1621–1695) French poet, fabulist and writer.
As quoted in Subcontact : Slap the Face of Fear and Wake Up Your Subconscious (2001) by Dian Benson, p. 149
Variant: Everyone believes very easily whatever he fears or desires.
“There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.”
Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962) American politician, diplomat, and activist, and First Lady of the United States
“I've heard the word 'fear'. I simply choose to believe it doesn't apply to me.”
Cassandra Clare book City of Ashes
Source: City of Ashes
“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”
Aristotle (-384–-321 BC) Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy
“Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”
Alexandre Dumas book The Three Musketeers
Source: The Three Musketeers
“I fear you close by; I love you far away.”
Friedrich Nietzsche book Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Source: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Henry Beston (1888–1968) American writer
Source: The Outermost House: A Year of Life On The Great Beach of Cape Cod
“Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.”
John Calvin book Institutes of the Christian Religion
Source: Institutes of the Christian Religion
“Life… is a paradise to what we fear of death.”
William Shakespeare Measure for Measure
Source: Measure for Measure
“Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear.”
Hayao Miyazaki (1941) Japanese animator, film director, and mangaka
“Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.”
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”
Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) English short-story writer, poet, and novelist
Source: The Collected Works
James A. Michener (1907–1997) American author
As quoted in Good Advice (1982) by William Safire and Leonard Safir. Original appearance in Holiday magazine, March 1956, pp. 40-51.
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Source: Unpopular Essays
“Silence can be either protest or consent, but most times it’s fear.”
Paul Beatty book The Sellout
Source: The Sellout
John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter
John Lennon, in "Instant Karma!" (written 27 January 1970)
Lyrics
Context: Instant Karma's gonna get you
Gonna knock you off your feet
Better recognize your brothers
Everyone you meet Why in the world are we here?
Surely not to live in pain and fear
Why on Earth are you there
When you're everywhere
Gonna get your share Well, we all shine on
Like the moon and the stars and the sun
Yeah, we all shine on
C'mon and on and on, on, on
Mark Twain (1835–1910) American author and humorist
Not by Twain, but from Edward Abbey's A Voice Crying In The Wilderness (1989).
Misattributed
“No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.”
Sigrid Undset (1882–1949) Norwegian writer
Source: The Wreath
“I only fear danger where I want to fear it.”
Franz Kafka book The Metamorphosis
Source: The Metamorphosis
“There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.”
Yukio Mishima book The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
Source: The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
“The worst of all fears is the fear of living”
Theodore Roosevelt book Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
Source: Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography
“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.”
Paulo Coelho book The Alchemist
Source: The Alchemist (1988), p. 130 <!-- also p. 156 -->
Context: Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Source: 1950s, Unpopular Essays (1950)
en.wikiquote.org - Bertrand Russell / Quotes / 1950s / Unpopular Essays (1950)
“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”
Alexander Pope An Essay on Criticism
At the hazard of being thought one of the fools of this quotation, I meet that argument — I rush in — I take that bull by the horns. I trust I understand and truly estimate the right of self-government. My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me. I extend the principle to communities of men as well as to individuals. I so extend it because it is politically wise, as well as naturally just: politically wise in saving us from broils about matters which do not concern us. Here, or at Washington, I would not trouble myself with the oyster laws of Virginia, or the cranberry laws of Indiana. The doctrine of self-government is right, — absolutely and eternally right, — but it has no just application as here attempted. Or perhaps I should rather say that whether it has such application depends upon whether a negro is not or is a man. If he is not a man, in that case he who is a man may as a matter of self-government do just what he pleases with him.
But if the negro is a man, is it not to that extent a total destruction of self-government to say that he too shall not govern himself. When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government — that is despotism. If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that "all men are created equal," and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another.
1850s, Speech at Peoria, Illinois (1854)
Source: An Essay on Criticism
“Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
Emil M. Cioran book The Trouble With Being Born
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
Source: The Trouble with Being Born
“The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet
Gillian Anderson (1968) American-British film, television and theatre actress, activist and writer
Excerpt from the foreword in Girl Boss: Running the Show Like the Big Chicks http://www.gilliananderson.ws/transcripts/99_00/99girlboss.shtml, by Stacy Kravetz (1999) <br class="br">1990s
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”
Bertrand Russell (1872–1970) logician, one of the first analytic philosophers and political activist
1920s, Marriage and Morals (1929)