quotations about fear
Always use the proper names for things. Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.
J. K. ROWLING
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Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
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 fear we throw about danger is always as disproportionate as a paternal shirt on an infant.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY
Keystones of Thought
Fear is a destructive emotion that can deal a fatal blow to any attempt on your part to build total self-confidence. If you allow your fears to run your life, it will be impossible to create the life you truly desire.
ROBERT ANTHONY
The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence
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
A man that is afraid is never a man.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit
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
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
Fear is a quicksand that slows and grips and strangles, leaving its victims unable to act, too timid to do what life requires.
BOB LONSBERRY
A Various Language
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.
T.S. ELIOT
The Waste Land
Fear the man who's feared of you.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
A thing may be dreaded as long as it has not overtaken you.
CHANAKYA
Vridda-Chanakya
Fear invites aggression--do not show it to a predator.
BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON
The Butlerian Jihad
Fear is the enemy of logic.
FRANK SINATRA
quoted in The Way You Wear Your Hat
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE
Short Studies on Great Subjects
We build castles with our fears and sleep in them like kings and queens.
CHRISTOPHER POINDEXTER
Remington Typewriter Poetry
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
There is a time when fear is good and ought to remain seated as a guardian of the heart.
AESCHYLUS
The Eumenides