Quotes about fear
fear self abandonment
The capacity for fear and for happiness are the same, the unrestricted openness to experience amounting to self-abandonment in which the vanquished rediscovers himself. Theodor Adorno
fear men bullets
Success has killed more men than bullets. Texas Guinan
fear fog punishment
It is an open question whether any behavior based on fear of eternal punishment can be regarded as ethical or should be regarded as merely cowardly. Margaret Mead
fear spoons knees
My knees could have been stirred with a spoon. Margaret Halsey
fear fear-of-death ifs
That's the thing about fear. Death will kill you once, but fear kills you over and over and over, if you let it. Marcus Allen
fear fearlessness
The only thing to fear is fearlessness. Michael Stipe
fear-of-failure possibility conditions
Fear of failure is a far worse condition than failure itself, because it kills off possibilities. Michael Eisner
fear order suffering
In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize. Ray Bradbury
fear
Don't they get afraid, then?" "They have a religion for that.
fear scare rebel
So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.
fear mean way
We have perhaps a natural fear of ends. We would rather be always on the way than arrive. Given the means, we hang on to them and often forget the ends. Eric Hoffer
fear formidable power-and-fear
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
fear real vanity
The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.
fear real self-confidence
The real "haves" are they who can acquire freedom, self-confidence, and even riches without depriving others of them. They acquire all of these by developing and applying their potentialities. On the other hand, the real "have nots" are they who cannot have aught except by depriving others of it. They can feel free only by diminishing the freedom of others, self-confident by spreading fear and dependence among others, and rich by making others poor.
fear filled hours involved pain trauma
The hours (after the attack) were filled with uncertainty, fear, pain and significant trauma for all involved in the tunnels and on the bus.
fear laughter laughing
So much of "normal, civilized" life is bull that you can't imagine. ... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at. James Clavell
fearless scared hacks
Being fearless precisely when you are most scared is the best hack. James Altucher
fear mistake failure
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes. James Anthony Froude
fear parent cruelty
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
fear remember stage
I can't remember that I ever had just a minute of stage fright. Henry Rollins
fearless naked
My fear is naked, I'm naked and fearless, and my fear is naked!
fear laughter anger
There are such people, unfortunates who have to be angry before they can feel alive. I had sometimes wondered if it were some old relic of pagan superstition, the fear of risking the jealousy and anger of the gods, that made such people afraid of even small happinesses. Or perhaps it was only that tragedy is more self-important than laughter. Mary Stewart
fear idiot
Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other. Patricia Briggs
fear underestimate
You can't underestimate the power of fear. Pat Nixon
fear breast-cancer men
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself-and possibly teh bogey man. Pat Paulsen
fear hair white
I'm afraid to look in the mirror. I'm afraid I'm going to see an old lady with white hair, just like the old ladies in the park. Alittle bundle in a black shawl just waiting for the coffin. Paddy Chayefsky
fear things-in-life heaven
The earth becomes heaven when you release your fear. The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human. Pablo Casals
fear dawn awakened
I am awakened each dawn Increasingly to fear.... Philip Larkin
fear boredom age
Life is first boredom, then fear. Whether or not we use it, it goes, And leaves what something hidden from us chose, And age, and then the only end of age.
fear circles becoming-who-you-are
You end up becoming who you are by jumping into that circle of fear - that's how it's done. Paula Abdul
fear scary steps
You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury. Lee Child
fear hate tears
That's what tears are for, you know, to wash away the fear and cool the hate. Laurie R. King
fear speak slave
They are slaves who fear to speak, for the fallen and the weak. James Russell Lowell