Quotes about fear
fear philosophy philosophical
Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. Marcus Aurelius
fear years alzheimers
I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year. Marcia Wallace
fear-of-death ifs conscience
If thou hadst a good conscience thou wouldst not greatly fear death. Thomas a Kempis
fear sorrow gold
To have gold is to be in fear, and to want it to be sorrow. Samuel Johnson
fear women thinking
Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.
fear views soul
And why should it not be terrifying? A little terror, in my view, is good for the soul, when it is terror in the face of a noble object. Robertson Davies
fear kind worst
I was afraid and did not know what I feared, which is the worst kind of fear.
fear sleep what-if
What if angry vectors veer Round your sleeping head, and form. There's never need to fear Violence of the poor world's abstract storm. Robert Penn Warren
fear men kind
To be feared of a thing and yet to do it, is what makes the prettiest kind of a man. Robert Louis Stevenson
fear two people
There are two reasons why people fail. One is irresponsibility. The second is fear. Wally Amos
fear good-things bad-things
So many bad things have happened to them that they can't trust the good things. They have to shove them away before someone can get it back. Wally Lamb
fear mean love-is
Love and faith are not common companions. More commonly power and fear consort with faith....Power is not to be crossed; one must respect and obey. Power means strength, whereas love is a human frailty the people mistrust. It is a sad fact of life that power and fear are the fountainheads of faith. Saul Alinsky
fearlessness
Fearlessness in those without power is maddening to those who have it. Tobias Wolff
fear resolve one-thing
Resolve to do one thing every day that you fear. Tim Ferriss
fear sometimes should
Fear is your friend. It is an indicator. Sometimes it shows you what you shouldn't do, more often than not it shows you what you should do.
fear challenges scare
If the challenge we face doesn't scare us, then it's probably not that important.
fear men mind
The man who is roused neither by glory nor by danger it is in vain to exhort; terror closes the ears of the mind. [Lat., Quem neque gloria neque pericula excitant, nequidquam hortere; timor animi auribus officit.] Sallust
fear proud haughty
Fear not the proud and the haughty; fear rather him who fears God. Saadi
fear thinking sharks
Were the diver to think on the jaws of the shark, he would never lay hands on the precious pearl.
fear-god
I fear God the most, but after Him, I fear those who don't fear Him.
fear never-change do-not-fear
Do not fear. Some things will never change. Roland Emmerich
fear men hydrogen-bomb
We are living in a world of fear. The life of man today is corroded and made bitter by fear-fear of the future, fear of the hydrogen bomb, fear of ideologies. Perhaps this fear is a greater danger than the danger itself, because it is fear which drives men to act foolishly to act thoughtlessly, to act dangerously. Sukarno
fear heart cutting
Scruples, temptations, and fears, and cutting perplexities of the heart, are often the lot of the most excellent persons.
fear way my-way
I failed my way to success. Thomas A. Edison
fear dies
Do what you fear and your fear will die. Ralph Waldo Emerson
fear war airplane
The hens they all cackle, the roosters all beg, But I will not hatch, I will not hatch. For I hear all the talk of pollution and war As the people all shout and the airplane roar, So I'm staying in here where it's safe and it's warm, And I WILL NOT HATCH! Shel Silverstein
fear war people
It seems to me that we can’t explain all the truly awful things in the world like war and murder and brain tumors, and we can’t fix these things, so we look at the frightening things that are closer to us and we magnify them until they burst open. Inside is something that we can manage, something that isn’t as awful as it had a first seemed. It is a relief to discover that although there might be axe murderers and kidnappers in the world, most people seem a lot like us: sometimes afraid and sometimes brave, sometimes cruel and sometimes kind. Sharon Creech
fear expectations people
What I have since realized is that if people expect you to be brave, sometimes you pretend that you are, even when you are frightened down to your very bones.
fearful ifs
Fearful of wasting a second, we hoard time as if it were money. Sharon Salzberg
fear writing splits
Write what disturbs you, what you fear, what you have not been willing to speak about. Be willing to be split open. Natalie Goldberg
fearless scare absence
Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you. Taylor Swift
fear moving space
Death is the end of the fear of death. [...] To avoid it we must not stop fearing it and so life is fear. Death is time because time allows us to move toward death which we fear at all times when alive. We move around and that is fear. Movement through space requires time. Without death there is no movement through space and no life and no fear. To be aware of death is to be alive is to fear is to move around in space and time toward death. Tao Lin
fear-nothing fear-not vulture
Fear the vulture and the vulture will come. Fear nothing and you are the vulture. Suzy Kassem