Quotes about fear

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“Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free.”

“To fear is one thing. To let fear grab you by the tail and swing you around is another.”

“If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!”

“Maybe it just means that love can be stronger than fear.”

“When I have fears that I may cease to be
Before my pen has glean’d my teeming brain,
Before high piled books, in charact’ry,
Hold like rich garners the full-ripen’d grain;
When I behold, upon the night’s starr’d face,
Huge cloudy symbols of a high romance,
And think that I may never live to trace
Their shadows, with the magic hand of chance;
And when I feel, fair creature of an hour!
That I shall never look upon thee more,
Never have relish in the faery power
Of unreflecting love!”

“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”

“Fear and Bigotry are bred fom isolation and ignorance.
-Shekinah”

“Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.”

“I fear that, with our current veneration for the natural and the real, we have arrived at the opposite pole to all idealism, and have landed in the region of the waxworks.”

“The highest point at which human life and art meet is in the ordinary. To look down on the ordinary is to despise what you can't have. Show me a man who fears being ordinary, and I'll show you a man who is not yet a man.”

“I want to
let her know
though
that all the nights
sleeping
beside her

even the useless
arguments
were things
ever splendid

and the hard
words
I ever feared to
say
can now be
said:

I love
you.”

“People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar.”

“Your fears are a kind of prison that confines you within a limited range of action. The less you fear, the more power you will have and the more fully you will live.”

“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.”

“But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”

“I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to my own soul.”

“Being terrified but going ahead and doing what must be done—that's courage. The one who feels no fear is a fool, and the one who lets fear rule him is a coward.”

“Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.”

“Fearlessness is not the absence of fear. It's the mastery of fear. It's about getting up one more time than we fall down.”

“Fear is a strange soil. It grows obedience like corn, which grow in straight lines to make weeding easier. But sometimes it grows the potatoes of defiance, which flourish underground.”

“My worst habit is my fear & my destructive rationalizing.”

“So full of artless jealousy is guilt,
It spills itself in fearing to be spilt.”

“All men have fears, but the brave put down their fears and go forward, sometimes to death, but always to victory.”

“He who has the truth at his heart need never fear the want of persuasion on his tongue.”

“I knew that there had been times in the past-terrible times-when people had destroyed others in haste, in fear, and had brought about their own destruction”

“If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer … It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states.
We are, and always will be, the United States of America.
It's the answer that led those who've been told for so long by so many to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day.
It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this date in this election at this defining moment, change has come to America.”

“Limits, like fears, are often just an illusion”

“As I love the name of honour more than I fear death.”

“What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.”

“We tell lies when we are afraid… afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.”

“Fear no more, says the heart…”

“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.”

“Cole chuckled, saying, “Fear of spiders is arachnophobia, and fear of tight spaces is claustrophobia, but fear of Ali Bell is just called logic.”

“Education, I fear, is learning to see one thing by going blind to another.”

“I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do…”

“Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.”

“The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.”

“It is better to be feared than loved.”

“The fear is simply because you are not living with life, You are living in your mind.”

“Faster, Faster, until the thrill of speed overcomes the fear of death.”

“intelligence is intuitive
you needn't learn to love
unless you've been taught
to fear and hate”

“If any man tells you he loves America, yet hates labor, he is a liar. If any man tells you he trusts America, yet fears labor, he is a fool.”

“Fear is the mind-killer.”

“Up and down, up and down
I will lead them up and down
I am feared in field in town
Goblin, lead them up and down”

“Death frees from the fear of dying”

“Didier once told me, in a rambling, midnight dissertation, that a dream is the place where a wish and a fear meet. When the wish and the fear are exactly the same, he said, we call the dream a nightmare.”

“IT'S THE EXPRESSION ON THEIR LITTLE FACES I LIKE, said the Hogfather.
"You mean sort of fear and awe and not knowing whether to laugh or cry or wet their pants?"
YES. NOW THAT IS WHAT I CALL BELIEF.”

“We routinely leave our small children in day care among strangers. At the same time, in our guilt we evince paranoia about strangers and foster fear in children.”

“Turn to the light. Don't fear the shadow it creates.”

“A life lived in fear… is a life half-lived.”

“Then he'd come back home and found out that war didn't cause fear—love did.”

“Her affection for him was now the breath and life of Tess's being; it enveloped her as a photosphere, irradiated her into forgetfulness of her past sorrows, keeping back the gloomy spectres that would persist in their attempts to touch her—doubt, fear, moodiness, care, shame. She knew that they were waiting like wolves just outside the circumscribing light, but she had long spells of power to keep them in hungry subjection there.”

“Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant, pounding companion, it cuts away at who you are”

“Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there.”

“I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.”

“YOU FEAR TO DIE?
"It's not that I don't want… I mean, I've always… it's just that life is a habit that's hard to break…”

“Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.”

“There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.”

“I've heard the word 'fear'. I simply choose to believe it doesn't apply to me.”

“Gentlemen, why do you not laugh? With the fearful strain that is upon me day and night, if I did not laugh, I should die.”

“Welcome to fear, said Moist to himself. It's hope, turned inside out. You know it can't go wrong, you're sure it can't go wrong… But it might.”

“Courage is the complement of fear. A man who is fearless cannot be courageous. [He is also a fool. ]”

“Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.”

“Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”

“I fear you close by; I love you far away.”

“Our fantastic civilization has fallen out of touch with many aspects of nature, and with none more completely than with night. Primitive folk, gathered at a cave mouth round a fire, do not fear night; they fear, rather, the energies and creatures to whom night gives power; we of the age of the machines, having delivered ourselves of nocturnal enemies, now have a dislike of night itself. With lights and ever more lights, we drive the holiness and beauty of night back to the forests and the sea; the little villages, the crossroads even, will have none of it. Are modern folk, perhaps, afraid of night? Do they fear that vast serenity, the mystery of infinite space, the austerity of stars? Having made themselves at home in a civilization obsessed with power, which explains its whole world in terms of energy, do they fear at night for their dull acquiescence and the pattern of their beliefs? Be the answer what it will, to-day's civilization is full of people who have not the slightest notion of the character or the poetry of night, who have never even seen night. Yet to live thus, to know only artificial night, is as absurd and evil as to know only artificial day.”

“Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.”

“Life… is a paradise to what we fear of death.”

“Always believe in yourself. Do this and no matter where you are, you will have nothing to fear.”

“Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals.”

“Ignorance breeds fear and hatred.”

“The weak fear happiness itself.”

“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”

“Fear no more, says the heart, committing its burden to some sea, which sighs collectively for all sorrows, and renews, begins, collects, lets fall”

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.”

“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”

“Silence can be either protest or consent, but most times it’s fear.”

“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-come and get your share.”

“The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”

“When you were in love, you knew no fear or hatred. When you were fearful, there was no possibility of love or hate. And when there was hate, there was only hate.”

“No one and nothing can harm us, child, except what we fear and love.”

“The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion, when the intuition of disaster is so painful that it almost provokes a greater madness […] One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.”

“He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear
His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear:
And you all know, security
Is mortals' chiefest enemy.”

“I fear feeling my heart break a second time, because I'm not sure I could survive it. I'd rather live alone than risk the pain.”

“I know what the fear is.
The fear is not for what is lost.
What is lost is already in the wall.
What is lost is already behind the locked doors.
The fear is for what is still to be lost.”

“I only fear danger where I want to fear it.”

“There isn't any fear in existence itself, or any uncertainty, but living creates it.”

“Even our fears make us feel important, because we fear we might not be.”

“The worst of all fears is the fear of living”

“Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.”

“Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.”

“When you get rid of your fear of failure, your tensions about succeeding… you can be yourself. Relaxed. You'll no longer be driving with your brakes on.”

“Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.”

“Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”

“Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared.”

“Having always lived in fear of being surprised by the worst, I have tried in every circumstance to get a head start, flinging myself into misfortune long before it occurred.”

“The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear.”

“Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.”

“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.”