fear quotes

Anais Nin: 

People living deeply have no fear of death.

Anne Frank: 

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.

Aung San Suu Kyi: 

Fear is not the natural state of civilized people.

Bertrand Russell: 

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

Bob Dylan: 

I accept chaos. I am not sure whether it accepts me. I know some people are terrified of the bomb. But then some people are terrified to be seen carrying a modern screen magazine. Experience teaches us that silence terrifies people the most.

Bonaro W. Overstreet: 

Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier for people to accept themselves, to like themselves.

Chet Atkins: 

Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.

Don Miguel Ruiz: 

Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive -- the risk to be alive and express what we really are.

Dorothy Thompson: 

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

Dorothy Thompson: 

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.

Dorothy Thompson: 

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth, the persistent refusal to analyze the causes of happenings.

Dorothy Thompson: 

Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light.

Eleanor Roosevelt: 

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.

Eleanor Roosevelt: 

You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Ernest Becker: 

[W]e now know that the human animal is characterized by two great fears that other animals are protected from: the fear of life and the fear of death... Heidegger brought these fears to the center of his existential philosophy. He argued that the basic anxiety of [humanity] is anxiety about being-in-the-world, as well as anxiety of being-in-the-world. That is, both fear of death and fear of life, of experience and individuation.

Gay Hendricks: 

One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else. In fact, arguments often serve the purpose of using up energy, so that the couple do not have to take the courageous, creative leap into an unknown they fear. Arguing serves the function of being a zone of familiarity into which you can retreat when you are afraid of making a creative breakthrough.

H. Jackson Browne: 

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

Hannah Arendt: 

Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival.

Henry David Thoreau: 

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

Henry James: 

Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

James F. Bymes: 

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem to be more afraid of life than death

James Thurber: 

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness.

Jane Addams: 

Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we often might win, by fearing to attempt.

Louisa May Alcott: 

I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

Marcus Aurelius: 

If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.

Marianne Williamson: 

And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

Marianne Williamson: 

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure.

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Marie Curie: 

Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.

Marilyn Ferguson: 

Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom.

May Sarton: 

... without darkness
Nothing comes to birth,
As without light
Nothing flowers.

Pearl S. Buck: 

You can judge your age by the amount of pain you feel when you come in contact with a new idea.

Percy Bysshe Shelley: 

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: 

Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours and ages that will follow it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: 

In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed.

Ralph Waldo Emerson: 

Do not be too timid and squeamish about your reactions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

Robert Louis Stevenson: 

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.

Robert Louis Stevenson: 

Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.

Rosa Parks: 

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

Shel Silverstein: 

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!

Swedish proverb: 

Worry gives a small thing a big shadow.

Thomas Hobbes: 

Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion. 
Leviathan


Thomas Jefferson: 

I steer my bark with hope in the head, leaving fear astern. My hopes indeed sometimes fail, but not oftener than the forebodings of the gloomy. 
1816


Thomas Jefferson: 

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Virginia Woolf: 

The beauty of the world has two edges, one of laughter, one of anguish, cutting the heart asunder.

William Allen White: 

I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today.