FEAR QUOTES IV

quotations about fear

In my opinion the hectic and almost frantic pace of modern living is a clear sign of the fear we have of being and of life. And as long as this fear exists in a person's unconscious, he will run faster and do more so as not to feel his fear.

ALEXANDER LOWEN

Fear of Life


A man that is afraid is never a man.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit


When we notice a connection between our present fears and their origins in early life, we are finding out how much of our identity is designed by fear. Is fear the architect of me?

DAVID RICHO

When Love Meets Fear


For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. This terror therefore and darkness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of day, but by the aspect and law of nature.

LUCRETIUS

De Rerum Natura


Once you have explored a fear, it becomes less terrifying. Part of courage comes from extending our knowledge.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVEN J. ANDERSON

Dune: House Corrino


Fear God and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.

BIBLE

Ecclesiastes 12:13


Fear is a distorting mirror in which anything can appear as a caricature of itself, stretched to terrible proportions; once inflamed, the imagination pursues the craziest and most unlikely possibilities. What is most absurd suddenly seems the most probable.

STEFAN ZWEIG

The Post Office Girl


Fear secretes acids.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


Fear, the strength of earth's religions, gripping every living soul,
Was a monstrous human error for the making of men whole.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"Caelestis"


The only way to get rid of the fear of doing something is to go out ... and do it.

SUSAN J. JEFFERS

Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway


It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.

J. K. ROWLING

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince


Always use the proper names for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

J. K. ROWLING

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone


We must control fear or it will control us.

WALTER MATTHEWS

Human Life from Many Angles


There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.

AESCHYLUS

The Eumenides


Fears themselves don't have to change at all. Fear is not the problem. It is our relationship to the fear that determines the choices we make. By changing our relationship to fear, we reduce its credibility, robbing it of its power to stop us.

THOM RUTLEDGE

Embracing Fear


Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

BERTRAND RUSSELL

Unpopular Essays


We build castles with our fears and sleep in them like kings and queens.

CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER

Remington Typewriter Poetry


There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. The true courage is in facing danger when you are afraid.

L. FRANK BAUM

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz


I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

FRANK HERBERT

Dune


Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.

ELBERT HUBBARD

The American Bible