Those who fear life are already three parts dead.
~ Bertrand Russell
Fear not that thy life shall come to an end but rather that it shall never have a beginning.
~ John Henry Cardinal Newman
People living deeply have no fear of death.
~ Anaïs Nin
The fear of life is the favorite disease of the twentieth century.
~ William Lyon Phelps
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They are more afraid of life than death.
~ James F. Byrnes
Death does not frighten me but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does.
~ Isabelle Eberhardt
Fear of life in one form or another is the great thing to exorcise.
~ William James
If we let things terrify us life will not be worth living.
~ Marcus Annaeus Seneca
A good life fears not life nor death.
~ Thomas Fuller
He who fears death cannot enjoy life.
~ Spanish Proverb
Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
~ Erik H. Erikson
To live your life in the fear of losing it is to lose the point of life.
~ Malcolm Forbes
It is not death we fear but the thought of it.
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded but the fear of pain or death.
~ Epictetus
Death is not the enemy living in constant fear of it is.
~ Norman Cousins
We must act in spite of fear ... not because of it.
~ Anonymous
I have accepted fear as a part of life-specifically the fear of change. ... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....
~ Erica Jong
Go forth to meet the shadowy Future without fear and with a manly heart.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I may be compelled to face danger but never fear it and while our soldiers can stand and fight I can stand and feed and nurse them.
~ Clara Barton
The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.
~ Vincent Van Gogh
Fear is one thing. To let fear grab you and swing you around by the tail is another.
~ Katherine Paterson
I have not ceased being fearful but I have ceased to let fear control me.
Nothing puzzles me more than time and space yet nothing troubles me less.
~ Charles Lamb
Uncertainty and expectation are the joys of life. Security is an insipid thing and the overtaking and possessing of a wish discovers the folly of the chase.
~ William Congreve
When I lie down I say When shall I arise and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
~ Bible
If I had a formula for bypassing trouble I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favour. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble. That's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend for you'll see a lot of it and had better be on speaking terms with it.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.
~ Ann Landers
Trouble is a part of your life and if you don't share it you don't give the person who loves you a chance to love you enough.
~ Dinah Shore
Anxiety is essential to the human condition. The confrontation with anxiety can relieve us from boredom sharpen the sensitivity and assure the presence of tension that is necessary to preserve human existence.
~ Rollo May
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck and ask anyone the house is never burgled and the ship never goes down.
~ Jean Anouilh
Neurosis is the way of avoiding non-being by avoiding being.
~ Paul Tillich
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
~ Soren Kierkegaard
Anxiety is fear of one's self.
~ Wilhelm Stekel
Fear ringed by doubt is my eternal moon.
~ Malcolm Lowry
Worries go down better with soup than without.
~ Jewish Proverb
Neurotic means he is not as sensible as I am and psychotic means he's even worse than my brother-in-law.
~ Karl Menninger
Anxiety is the interest paid on trouble before it is due.
~ Dean William R. Inge
Anxiety is a thin stream of fear trickling through the mind. If encouraged it cuts a channel into which all other thoughts are drained.
~ Arthur Somers Roche
There is a difference between a psychopath and a neurotic. A psychopath thinks two and two are five. A neurotic knows that two and two are four but he worries about it.
Worrying helps you some. It seems as if you are doing something when you're worrying.
~ Lucy Maud Montgomery
