Quotes about fear
fear-nothing fear-not fear-god
When you fear God you fear nothing else! Oswald Chambers
fear insecure hatred
"There is no greater gift to an insecure leader that quite matches a vague enemy who can be used to whip up fear and hatred among the population." Paul Rusesabagina
fear passion world
The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents Michel de Montaigne
fear happy-life men
A man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears. Michel de Montaigne
fear world
The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear. Michel de Montaigne
fear passion worry
There is no passion so contagious as that of fear. Michel de Montaigne
fear self behavior
What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear. Michel de Montaigne
fear moving wings
Fear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving. Michel de Montaigne
fear atheism may
We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents. Mark Twain
fear halloween temptation
There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice. Mark Twain
fear light darkness
You will fear the darkness only to the extent that you yourself are not providing light. Marianne Williamson
fear book mean
The famous passage from her book is often erroneously attributed to the inaugural address of Nelson Mandela. About the misattribution Williamson said, "Several years ago, this paragraph from A Return to Love began popping up everywhere, attributed to Nelson Mandela's 1994 inaugural address. As honored as I would be had President Mandela quoted my words, indeed he did not. I have no idea where that story came from, but I am gratified that the paragraph has come to mean so much to so many people. Marianne Williamson
fearless wish hunger
I wish that my life could be like the movies, like 'Bonnie and Clyde' or 'The Hunger' or 'Harold and Maude.' And it can be! It maybe just takes somebody else who is as fearless as you. It takes a person who will not hesitate. Marilyn Manson
fear forever fear-of-love
To good and true love, fear is forever affixed. Francois Rabelais
fear dying waste
Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't know it. I fear dying, of dying I feel a sense of waste about it and I fear a sordid death, where I am incapacitated or imbecilic at the end which isn't something to be afraid of, it's something to be terrified of. Christopher Hitchens
fear absence
The absence of fear is love. Chris Murphy
fear scared has-beens
Fear was absolutely necessary. Without it, I would have been scared to death. Floyd Patterson
fear mistake people
The scariest thought in the world is that someday I'll wake up and realize I've been sleepwalking through my life: underappreciating the people I love, making the same hurtful mistakes over and over, a slave to neuroses, fear, and the habitual. George Saunders
fear lying history
History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there. George Santayana
fear people steps
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most. Fyodor Dostoevsky
fear deep-thought study
Realists do not fear the results of their study. Fyodor Dostoevsky
fear people steps
Taking a new step. . .is what people fear most. Fyodor Dostoevsky
fear pride vanity
Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality. Friedrich Nietzsche
fear drinking two
Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity. Friedrich Nietzsche
fear scary conversations-with-god
There is nothing scary about life if you are not attached to results. Neale Donald Walsch
fear real acronyms
FEAR is an acronym in the English language for 'False Evidence Appearing Real'. Neale Donald Walsch
fear opportunity decisions-you-make
Every decision you make - every decision - is not a decision about what to do. It's a decision about Who You Are. When you see this, when you understand it, everything changes. You begin to see life in a new way. All events, occurrences, and situations turn into opportunities to do what you came here to do. Neale Donald Walsch
fear simple love-is
The laws are very simple: thought is creative; fear attracts like energy; love is all there is. Neale Donald Walsch
fear black might
It was any outcast's nightmare. If I looked carefully, I suspected I might find it beneath the black paint of the small acrylic by the window. Nancy Werlin
fear learning essence
We have nothing to fear and a great deal to learn from trees, that vigorours and pacific tribe which without stint produces strengthening essences for us, soothing balms, and in whose gracious company we spend so many cool, silent, and intimate hours. Marcel Proust
fear men evil
Were a man's sorrows and disquietudes summed up at the end of his life, it would generally be found that he had suffered more from the apprehension of such evils as never happened to him than from those evils which had really befallen him. Joseph Addison
fear trying path
...we confidently say that it's not worth trying to reach any conclusions merely because we decide to stop halfway along the path that would lead us straight to them. Jose Saramago
fear thinking people
One usually thinks people to be more dangerous than they are. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe