Quotes about Fear

“The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.”

“My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.”

“The most feared thing should be death, but after a lot of rumination, I have settled to fear incessant pain. It is not a 'screaming hysterically' kind of fear but a silently lurking one.”

“There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.”

“Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.”

“What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths.”

“I have this fear of clowns, so I think that if I surround myself with them, it will ward off all evil.”

“Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.”

“You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it.”

“I believe in the sun. In the tangle of human failures of fear, greed and forgetfulness, the sun gives me clarity.”

“You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.”

“Fear is always there; it's a survival instinct. You just need to know how to manage it.”

“I have a very positive attitude in life. My insecurity, fear and need to know about tomorrow has fortunately eased. What is going to happen will happen anyway. So why break my head over it?”

“It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.”

“Excessive fear is always powerless.”

“A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.”

“Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.”

“I always have the fear that, if I don't commit 100 percent to my work, then it's gonna suffer.”

“If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying.”

“I have no fear of losing my life - if I have to save a koala or a crocodile or a kangaroo or a snake, mate, I will save it.”

“You can like or dislike me. You are entitled to form an opinion about me, and I don't fear being judged.”