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Quotes About Fear

The enemy wants to steal our peace and keep us stirred up, anxious, fearful, upset, and always in a stance of waiting for something terrible to happen at any minute.
~ Stormie Omartian
We're terrified of not having the answers, and we would sometimes rather assert an incorrect answer than make our peace with the fact that we really don't know.
~ Kathryn Schulz
Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.
~ Gregory Bateson
Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises!
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
I can cheat fear today - but won't it return tomorrow? Rather, I must embrace this fear... and find peace in its bosom.
~ Osamu Tezuka
Most fear stems from sin; to limit one's sins, one must assuredly limit one's fear, thereby bringing more peace to one's spirit.
~ Marvin Gaye
The peace of God is not the absence of fear. It, in fact, is His presence.
~ Timothy Keller
Dangling in space I realised I could always slip out of the harness. I looked forward to the peace of the great release.
~ Douglas Mawson
All fears are one fear. Just the fear of death. And we accept it, then we are at peace.
~ David Mamet
When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest...and there is nothing to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war
~ Plato
Be at peace, my friend. One thing I have learnt about Death is that his bark is worse than his bite.
~ David Gemmell
Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.
~ John Buchan
I'm simultaneously terrified of the thought of existing forever and not existing at all. Wherein is my peace?
~ Hannah Hart
I've made peace with insecurity... because there is no security of any kind.
~ Dick Van Dyke
I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to.
~ Alice Walker
Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother.
~ William Shakespeare
We Germans fear God, but nothing else in the world; and it is the fear of God, which lets us love and foster peace.
~ Otto von Bismarck
And there was Frodo, pale and worn, and yet himself again; and in his eyes there was peace now, neither strain of will, nor madness, nor any fear. His burden was taken away.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
All the heat and fear had purged itself. I felt surprisingly at peace. The bell jar hung suspended a few feet above my head. I was open to the circulating air.
~ Sylvia Plath
Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.
~ Samuel Johnson
What does it mean when nightmares dream of peace? When shadows wish for light?
~ Melissa Marr
Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing.
~ Olaf Stapledon
I think my apocalyptic feelings went deeper than [heavily influenced by Reagan and AIDS]. I'm really at peace with how afraid I am.
~ Michael Stipe
If we are at peace with God and our own conscience, what enemy among men need we fear?
~ Hosea Ballou