Quotes about Fear

“My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.”

“It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.”

“Let them hate so long as they fear.”

“The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.”

“I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.”

“Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.”

“Fear created the first gods in the world.”

“At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I'll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.”

“I'm not denying that depression can be spiritually induced. Guilt from having wronged and hurt others can bring it on. A sense of having failed to live out the will of God can give rise to depression. Certainly the fear of death and what might follow can sap the joy out of life.”

“Unless India stands up to the world, no one will respect us. In this world, fear has no place. Only strength respects strength.”

“I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.”

“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”

“The fear of life, the fear of burdens and of duties, of annoyances and of catastrophes! The fear of life, which makes us, through dread of its sufferings, refuse its joys. Ah! I tell you, this cowardliness enrages me; I cannot forgive it. We must live - live a complete life - live all our life.”

“Mediocrity scares me. It's the fear of not being as good as you want to be. If you give over to that fear, it will sabotage you. As much as I can, I try to use that fear to guide me.”

“Probably the one Bible passage that is read by Jews and Roman Catholics, Protestants, Islam, more than any other chapter is Psalm 23. And in Psalm 23 there is a verse that says, 'Surely, yea though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.'”

“Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.”

“Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.”

“Bravery is not the absence of fear, it is overcoming it.”

“Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes.”

“Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear.”

“When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.”