FEAR QUOTES V

quotations about fear

Fear secretes acids.

HENRY WARD BEECHER

Life Thoughts


Fear invites aggression--do not show it to a predator.

BRIAN HERBERT & KEVIN J. ANDERSON

The Butlerian Jihad


Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.

ELBERT HUBBARD

The American Bible


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


Fear, the strength of earth's religions, gripping every living soul,
Was a monstrous human error for the making of men whole.

EDWIN LEIBFREED

"Caelestis"


Fear is prophetical of evil.

BENJAMIN WHICHCOTE

Moral and Religious Aphorisms


Fear breeds upon itself because it is a hermaphrodite capable of endless reproduction. Fear is a contagious disease, spreading from its first victim to others in the vicinity until it is powerful enough to take charge of a group, in which event it becomes panic. Fear is the afterbirth of reason and calculation. It takes time to recuperate from fear.

ERNEST K. GANN

Fate is the Hunter


Fear will keep you alive; indifference won't.

LAURELL K. HAMILTON

The Killing Dance


I used to think the reason I'd like to stop letting fear run my life was that it felt so bad to be afraid, and also that it was pointless--possibly wasted, if the feared thing never did materialize. But now that fear has packed its miserable bags and is running out the door, making slamming noises to call attention to itself, I begin to see how much room fear has occupied. What opportunity opens up!

JAN FRAZIER

When Fear Falls Away


Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant companion, it cuts away at who you are and makes it hard to do what you know is right.

CHRISTOPHER PAOLINI

Inheritance


Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

FRANK HERBERT

Chapterhouse: Dune


The fear in my heart was like in one of those dreams where you try to run but you can't do it, you can't run because the fear is an anchor in your chest.

WALTER MOSLEY

Fear Itself


If there is one thing which I would banish from the earth it is fear.

HENRY FORD

Theosophist Magazine, Feb. 1930


Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.

GEORGES BERNANOS

A Diary of My Times

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In one way fear is also God's daughter, redeemed on the night of Holy Friday. She is not beautiful to look at -- oh no! -- ridiculed at times, at others cursed, disowned by everyone ... and yet, make no mistake about it, she is present at every deathbed--she is man's intercessor.

GEORGES BERNANOS

Heroic Face of Innocence: Three Stories

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Leaders who feed fear typically are also ones who avoid facts.

BARACK OBAMA

Newsweek, April 29, 2019


Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the day. Fear of imprisonment, fear of torture, fear of death, fear of losing friends, family, property or means of livelihood, fear of poverty, fear of isolation, fear of failure. A most insidious form of fear is that which masquerades as common sense or even wisdom, condemning as foolish, reckless, insignificant or futile the small, daily acts of courage which help to preserve man's self-respect and inherent human dignity. It is not easy for a people conditioned by fear under the iron rule of the principle that might is right to free themselves from the enervating miasma of fear. Yet even under the most crushing state machinery courage rises up again and again, for fear is not the natural state of civilized man.

AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Freedom from Fear


Though it may arrive with shocking suddenness, horror devours its prey slowly. Through hours of days and years, it spreads its sullen darkness into every corner of the being it has conquered.

JOSEPHINE HART

Damage


Fear is another emotion that is strongly suppressed. We cannot afford to be afraid, and so we don't allow ourselves to sense and feel the fear within us. We lower our brows to deny it, set our jaws to defy it, and smile to deceive ourselves. But inwardly we remain scared to death.

ALEXANDER LOWEN

Fear of Life


The boundaries between fear and other emotions are not clear-cut. How does fear differ from dread, consternation or surprise? Anger, disgust, hatred and horror all contain elements of fear. Jealousy may be understood as fear of losing one's partner; guilt may be fear of God's punishment; shame may be fear of humiliation. I history of fear would be rendered meaningless if all negative emotional states were classified as 'really' being fear states.

JOANNA BOURKE

Fear: A Cultural History