FEAR QUOTES IV

quotations about fear

The good news is that fear is typically the province of the old. And hope is the province of the young.

BARACK OBAMA

Newsweek, April 29, 2019


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


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


The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

AUNG SAN SUU KYI

attributed, Instinct for Freedom: Finding Liberation Through Living


There is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us.

MICHAEL CRICHTON

State of Fear


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


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


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

AESCHYLUS

The Eumenides


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


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


The fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.

AUSTIN O'MALLEY

Keystones of Thought


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


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


Nothing like fear to wash your mind clean.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

Guilty Pleasures


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


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


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

CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER

Remington Typewriter Poetry


We must control fear or it will control us.

WALTER MATTHEWS

Human Life from Many Angles


Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

DANIEL DEFOE

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe