Quotes about Fear

“Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.”

“Never fear to deliberately walk through dark places, for that is how you reach the light on the other side.”

“We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to engage in dialogue with the other side.”

“What is the benefit of fasting in our body while filling our souls with innumerable evils? He who does not play at dice, but spends his leisure otherwise, what nonsense does he not utter? What absurdities does he not listen to? Leisure without the fear of God is, for those who do not know how to use time, the teacher of wickedness.”

“What has kept the world safe from the bomb since 1945 has not been deterrence, in the sense of fear of specific weapons, so much as it's been memory. The memory of what happened at Hiroshima.”

“I live my life through fear. If I'm afraid of it I'll do it just so I'm not afraid of it anymore.”

“The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.”

“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”

“The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.”

“Some days it is a heroic act just to refuse the paralysis of fear and straighten up and step into another day.”

“Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.”

“When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.”

“The moment I let fear slip in is the moment that the fights are gonna start getting closer and closer.”

“Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film.”

“Fear will make you stingy.”

“All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.”

“If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.”

“Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.”

“Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.”

“Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.”

“No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.”