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Quotes About Fear

What men fear is not that death is annihilation but that it is not.
~ Epicurus
Men fearing their innate power, pushed woman back into slavery.
~ Frederick Lenz
One never dives into the water to save a drowning man more eagerly than when there are others present who dare not take the risk.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
By experiencing your emotions somatically, there is no boogie man to scare you.
~ Gary Zukav
Few men who have liberated themselves from the fear of God and the fear of death are yet able to liberate themselves from the fear of man.
~ Lin Yutang
Subconsciously the genius is feared as an image breaker; frequently he does not accept the opinions of the mass, or man's opinion of himself.
~ Loren Eiseley
When we fear God, then we shall fear no man, however high-placed he may be.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.
~ Mark Twain
I am a God-fearing man. In fact, I don't go to church because I'm afraid I'll run into him there.
~ Matthew Diamond
They did something once that slurred my speech, and I thought, "Oh, man, you're messing with my brain. It's freaking me out."
~ Michael J. Fox
Every man is a potential rapist.
~ Nandita Das
A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. Men are moved by only two mechanisms: fear and self-interest. Victory belongs to the most persevering.
~ Napoleon Bonaparte
Any harm you do to a man should be done in such a way that you need not fear his revenge.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
I am no longer amazed by how quickly a man will justify his change of heart when a spear is leveled his way.
~ R. A. Salvatore
The brave man is not the one without fear but the one who does what he must despite being afraid. To succeed, you must be willing to risk total failure; you must learn this.
~ Raymond E. Feist
The women I have loved I have desired for themselves, but also because I feared myself.
~ Carlos Fuentes
When men are ruled by fear, they strive to prevent the very changes that will abate it.
~ Alan Paton
Worry is a form of fear, and all forms of fear produce fatigue. A man who has learned not to feel fear will find the fatigue of daily life enormously diminished.
~ Bertrand Russell
Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they're afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.
~ Brene Brown
Those who fear men like laws.
~ Luc de Clapiers
Is any man afraid of change? Why what can take place without change? What then is more pleasing or more suitable to the universal nature?
~ Marcus Aurelius
Brave men die a single death; cowards marry fish-head mermaids!
~ Mario
Nothing can doom man but the belief in doom, for this prevents the movement of return.
~ Martin Buber
But I have noticed this about ambitious men, or men in power, that they fear even the slightest and least likely threat to it.
~ Mary Stewart