quotations about fear
How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
In a believer's ear!
It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds,
And drives away his fear.
JOHN NEWTON
Olney Hymns
Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.
YODA
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.
ANNE RICE
Memnoch the Devil
Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.
MIGUEL DE CERVANTES
Don Quixote
That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.
JAMES M. CAIN
Double Indemnity
For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true. This terror therefore and darkness of mind must be dispelled not by the rays of the sun and glittering shafts of day, but by the aspect and law of nature.
LUCRETIUS
De Rerum Natura
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
It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
AUNG SAN SUU KYI
Freedom from Fear
When a man is afraid and accedes to fear, he will always find arguments to justify his own surrender.
NATAN SHARANSKY
Fear No Evil
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
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
I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
True at First Light
Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.
ELBERT HUBBARD
The American Bible
Living fearlessly is not the same thing as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.
MICHAEL IGNATIEFF
O Magazine, Apr. 2007
It is the unknown we fear when we look upon death and darkness, nothing more.
J. K. ROWLING
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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
Fearlessness requires attention and receptivity--it takes focus to stand in the still eye of a tornado and not be swept away by it.
SUSAN PIVER
O Magazine, Apr. 2007
Fear the man who's feared of you.
KEN ALSTAD
Savvy Sayin's
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE
Short Studies on Great Subjects
A man that is afraid is never a man.
HENRY WARD BEECHER
Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit