Fear Quotes

It is better to have a right destroyed than to abandon it because of fear.

~ Phillip Mann

Better a fearful end than fear without end.

~ Anonymous

A great philosophy is not a philosophy without reproach it is philosophy without fear.

~ Charles Péguy

There is a time to take counsel of your fears and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

~ General George S. Patton

I a stranger and afraid in a world I never made.

~ A. E. Housman

While we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness the weight of that silence will choke us.

~ Audre Lorde

All we are asked to bear we can bear. That is a law of the spiritual life. The only hindrance to the working of this law as of all benign laws is fear.

~ Elizabeth Goudge

But is a fence over which few leap.

~ German Proverb

There are always two voices sounding in our ears-the voice of fear and the voice of confidence. One is the clamor of the senses the other is the whispering of the higher self.

~ Charles B. Newcomb

Fear nothing for every renewed effort raises all former failures into lessons all sins into experience.

~ Katherine Tingley

Better hazard once than always be in fear.

~ Thomas Fuller

Pitching is the art of instilling fear by making a man flinch.

~ Sandy Koufax

Fear has a large shadow but he himself is small.

~ J. Ruth Gendler

Stripped of all their masquerades the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness rejection inferiority unmanageable anger illness and death.

~ Joshua L. Liebman

What is there to be afraid of? The worst thing that can happen is you fail. So what? I failed at a lot of things. My first record was horrible.

~ John Mellencamp

There is no hope unmingled with fear and no fear unmingled with hope.

~ Baruch Spinoza

Leaders are visionaries with a poorly developed sense of fear and no concept of the odds against them. They make the impossible happen.

~ Dr. Robert Jarvik

Those who love to be feared fear to be loved. Some fear them but they fear everyone.

~ Jean Pierre Camus

Keep your fears to yourself but share your courage with others.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

There is a courageous wisdom there is also a false reptile prudence the result not of caution but of fear.

~ Edmund Burke

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

~ Bertrand Russell

Who is more foolish the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light?

~ Maurice Freehill

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear-fear of the unknown the complex the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.

~ H. L. Mencken

Fear is only an illusion. It is the illusion that creates the feeling of separ-ateness-the false sense of isolation that exists only in your imagination.

~ Jeraldine Saunders

A fool without fear is sometimes wiser than an angel with fear.

~ Nancy Astor

Fear can be headier than whiskey once man has acquired a taste for it.

~ Donald Dowes

The first and great commandment is don't let them scare you.

~ Elmer Davis

Fear of death is fear of surrender to Infinity. Learn to surrender, to exist at Infinity while alive, and fear of death dissolves. Fear of death is fear of the Unknown. Realize the Wonder, the Eternal Unknowability of the Totality of Existence, and fear of death is transcended. If happiness or freedom depends on the Answer to the Question, then there can be no happiness or freedom. The Question cannot be satisfactorily or finally Answered. For one who abides at Infinity, happy and free, at ease with his Ultimate Ignorance, the Question and the Answer are equally unnecessary. What began will come to an end. What is Wonderful is not threatened. The Process of the Totality of Existence is Transcendental and Eternal. Only a fraction of the Whole can pass away in any moment, since only a fraction of the Whole appears in any moment. Therefore, the Heart Itself is always already Full of Wonder and Love. I is the body-mind, the fraction of the Whole that is now appearing and will soon disappear. I must be surrendered to the Heart, to the Whole, which is Infinity, Wonder, and Love.

~ Adi Da Samraj

When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear as a threat

~ Bell Hooks

Monsters were one thing. She was used to monsters, she could deal with monsters. A noise in the darkness, with nothing attached to it, was another.

~ Paul Cornell

Men do not fear swords...they fear monsters.

~ Dracula Untold

I don't remember a single monster before I met you.' he'd told Amphibian. 'Now they seem to be all over the place.''You mean there wasn't anything you were afraid of?' the Amphibian had asked him.'lots.''What did they look like?'It was a funny question.'They didn't look like anything. They were ideas,' Tom told him. 'Like not being able to pay rent, or being lonely.''That's the most terrifying thing I've ever heard.' the Amphibian replied.

~ Andrew Kaufman

What if it turns out there really are witches and vampires and werewolves living right here alongside us? After all, what better disguise could there be than to get your image enshrined in the culture of the mass media? Anything that's described in artistic terms and shown in the movies stops being frightening and mysterious. For real horror you need the spoken word, you need an old grandpa sitting on a bench, scaring the grandkids in the evening: 'And then the Master of the house came to him and said: I won't let you go, I'll tie you up and bind you tight and you'll rot under the fallen branches!' That's the way to make people wary of anomalous phenomena! Kids sense that, you know–it's no wonder they love telling stories about the Black Han and the Coffin on Wheels. But modern literature, and especially the movies, it all just dilutes that instinctive horror. How can you feel afraid of Dracula, if he's been killed a hundred times? How can you be afraid of aliens, if our guys always squelch them? Yes, Hollywood is the great luller of human vigilance. A toast–to the death of Hollywood, for depriving us of a healthy fear of the unknown!

~ Sergei Lukyanenko

Although stigmatizing attitudes are not limited to mental illness, the public seems to disapprove persons with psychiatric disabilities significantly more than persons with related conditions such as physical illness (34-36). Severe mental illness has been likened to drug addiction, prostitution, and criminality (37,38). Unlike physical disabilities, persons with mental illness are perceived by the public to be in control of their disabilities and responsible for causing them (34,36). Furthermore, research respondents are less likely to pity persons with mental illness, instead reacting to psychiatric disability with anger and believing that help is not deserved (35,36,39).World Psychiatry. 2002 Feb; 1(1): 16–20.PMCID: PMC1489832Understanding the impact of stigma on people with mental illnessPATRICK W CORRIGAN and AMY C WATSON

~ Patrick W. Corrigan

Scared people don’t really mean what they say, they’re just looking for ways to rationalize everything so they have someone or something to blame. They need to have a reason for what’s happening because when they have that they can take comfort in knowing it’s out of their control.

~ Chris Dietzel

When discouraged some people will give up, give in or give out far too early. They blame their problems on difficult situations, unreasonable people or their own inabilities.When discouraged other people will push back that first impulse to quit, push down their initial fear, push through feelings of helplessness and push ahead. They’re less likely to find something to blame and more likely to find a way through.

~ Steve Goodier

How was I to be a scientist, father Lion?' Science is knowing. What could I have known? Others always did the knowing, knew what was in me, what should come out of me, what was best for me. I didn't know who I was, what I wanted. I know less now, and I am afraid.

~ Russell Hoban

He walked across the room and flicked a switch. A spotlight turned on, illuminating a laminated poster of a woman on his wall. He took a crayon from his pocket and began drawing on it. I could see smudges from past demonstrations. [. . .] His dashed lines crisscrossed the woman's chest as if he were planning a military maneuver on undulating terrain.

~ Kim Van Alkemade

Each appointment brought fear, uncertainty and discouragement. Ann’s constant concern was, What if I have cancer?

~ K. Howard Joslin

Before you can become a millionaire, you must learn to think like one. You must learn how to motivate yourself to counter fear with courage. Making critical decisions about your career, business, investments and other resources conjures up fear, fear that is part of the process of becoming a financial success.

~ Thomas J. Stanley