Quotes About Fear

To write as if your life depended on it; to write across the chalkboard, putting up there in public the words you have dredged; sieved up in dreams, from behind screen memories, out of silence-- words you have dreaded and needed in order to know you exist.

So whatever you think of me, don't pity me. I had a beautiful life. I was loved, admired, feted, copied, mocked, treasured, and feared. I am one hundred years old and I am no longer afraid of anything.

Anything you avoid in life will come back, over and over again, until you're willing to face it—to look deeply into its true nature.

I have found over the years of working with people, even those who have had very deep and profound awakenings, that most people have a fear of being truthful, of really being honest-- not only with others, but with themselves as well. Of course, the core of this fear is that most people know intuitively that if they were actually truthful and totally sincere and honest, they would no longer be able to control anybody.

In truth, we are life itself. When we see and perceive that we are the totality of life, we are no longer afraid of it; we no longer feel afraid of birth, life, and death. But until we see that, we will see life as intimidating, as a barrier we somehow have to get through.

O que quer que você evite na vida irá retornar, repetidamente, até que esteja disposto a encarar isso, a olhar com profundidade para a sua verdadeira natureza.

This adult world has an insane quality to it. Everybody's going around pretending like they really know things, pretending like they know what's real and what's not, pretending they know what's right, pretending they know who's wrong, but actually nobody really knows. But this is something we're afraid of. We don't really want to admit that nobody really knows.

Unjustly men hate death, which is the greatest defence against their many ills.

The people's awe and innate fear will hold injustice back by day, by night, so long as the people leave the laws intact, just as they are: muddy the cleanest spring, and all you'll have to drink is muddy water.

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

Fear ye not The wrath of any man, nor hide your word Within your breast: the day of death and doom Awaits alike the freeman and the slave.

Thus upon mine restful couch I lie, Bathed with the dews of night, unvisited By dreams--ah me!--for in the place of sleep Stands Fear as my familiar, and repels The soft repose that would mine eyelids seal.

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain.

For somehow this is tyranny's disease, to trust no friends.

No argument will give courage to the coward.

It is easy to be brave at a safe distance.

Better beans and bacon in peace than cakes and ale in fear.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

I don't know. I don't know at all. And that's what's frightening the life out of me. To have no idea....

Fear is incomplete knowledge

Fear, what a strange thing fear was...

Death was for-the other people.