Fear Quotes

The root of fear is the death of yourself or someone you care about, but this will inevitably happen since we are only mortal, so why fea.

Unknown

Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering.

Yoda, Character in the Star Wars Saga

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you.

Kahlil Gibran

The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity. The fears are paper tigers. You can do anything you decide to do. You can act to change and control your life and the procedure, the process is its own reward.

Robyn Davidson

Truth fears no questions.

Anonymous

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

Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), "Outline of Intellectual Rubbish".

To fight fear, act. To increase fear - - wait, put off postpone.

David Joseph Schwartz

How does one kill fear, I wonder How do you shoot a spectre through the heart, slash off its spectral head, take it by the spectral throat.

Joseph Conrad

I saw that all things I feared, and which feared me, had nothing good or bad in them save insofar as the mind was affected by them.

Spinoza, Dutch Philosophe

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.

Cyril Connolly

Men fear death, as children fear to go in the dark and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

Maya Angelou

To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.

Edward Weeks

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of fear is a freedom.

Marilyn Ferguson

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.

Author Unknown

I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they the whites of South Africa have turned to loving, they will find we the blacks are turned to hating.

Alan Stewart Paton

I do not fear Satan half so much as I fear those who fear him.

Saint Teresa of Avila

Do not fear to step into the unknown For where there is risk, there is also reward.

Lori Hard

Dolendi modus, timendi non item. To suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none.

Sir Francis Bacon, Of Seditions and Troubles

Do not fear mistakes, there are none.

Miles Davis

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Robert Oppenheime

To hate and to fear is to be psychologically ill... it is, in fact, the consuming illness of our time.

H. A. Overstreet

The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

Joseph Addison

Confront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.

Jerry Gillies

If you are not afraid of the voices inside you, you will not fear the critics outside you.

Natalie Goldberg

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Niccolo Machiavelli

Look not mournfully into the Past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the Present. In is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy Future, without fear, and a manly heart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

What a fearful object a long - Neglected duty gets to be.

Chauncey Wright

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

John Steinbeck

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

Marcus Aelius Aurelius

We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all.

Jean de La Bruyere

Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?

Ernest Thompson Seton

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Marie Curie

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

Katherine Patterson, Jacob Have I Loved

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Lactantius

There are two days in the week about which and upon which I never worry. Two carefree days, kept sacredly free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is Yesterday And the other day I do not worry about is Tomorrow.

Robert Jones Burdette

A show of daring oft conceals great fear.

Lucan

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson