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Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
BERTRAND RUSSELL, An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish
If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living.
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.
NELSON MANDELA, Autobiography
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself--nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT, First Inaugural Address, Mar. 4, 1933
The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
EDMUND BURKE, speech on conciliation with America
- Father, O father! what do we here
- In this land of unbelief and fear?
WILLIAM BLAKE, The Land of Dreams
When we fear things I think that we wish for them ... every fear hides a wish.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE, Short Studies on Great Subjects
- Cowards die many times before their deaths
- The valiant never taste of death but once.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Julius Caesar
Is it that they fear the pain of death, or could it be they fear the joy of life?
TOAD THE WET SPROCKET, Pray Your Gods
- Fear not, but trust in Providence
- Wherever thou may'st be.
THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY, The Pilot
It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI, Freedom from Fear
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
EDMUND BURKE, On the Sublime and Beautiful
Fear is the enemy of logic.
FRANK SINATRA, quoted in The Way You Wear Your Hat
Living fearlessly is not the same thing as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF, O Magazine, Apr. 2007
Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
YODA, Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T.S. ELIOT, The Waste Land
To him who is in fear everything rustles.
SOPHOCLES, Acrisius [fragment]
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.
- How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
- In a believer's ear!
- It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds,
- And drives away his fear.
- All is well, tho' faith and form
- Be sunder'd in the night of fear.
ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON, In Memoriam
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
Fear God and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.
BIBLE, Ecclesiastes 12:13
The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.
H.P. LOVECRAFT, Supernatural Horror in Literature
If there is one thing which I would banish from the earth it is fear.
HENRY FORD, Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES, Don Quixote
Fearlessness requires attention and receptivity--it takes focus to stand in the still eye of a tornado and not be swept away by it.
SUSAN PIVER, O Magazine, Apr. 2007
The big lesson in life, baby, is never be scared of anyone or anything.
FRANK SINATRA, quoted in The Way You Wear Your Hat
Fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.
WILLIAM GOLDING, Lord of the Flies
If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt and fear.
STEPHENIE MEYER, Breaking Dawn
You see something scary, you should stand up and step toward it, not away from it. Instinctively, reflexively, in a raging fury.
LEE CHILD, Echo Burning
Fear is contagious. You can catch it.
NEIL GAIMAN, The Graveyard Book
Fear will keep you alive; indifference won't.
LAURELL K. HAMILTON, The Killing Dance
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
You are frightened of everything. You call it caution. You call it common sense. You call it practicality. You call it playing the odds, but that's only because you're afraid to call it by its real name, and its real name is fear.
You can't stop being afraid just by pretending everything that scares you isn't there.
MICHAEL MARSHALL, The Upright Man
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