Quotes About Fear

I do not fear death. I know it is coming, and I do not fear it, because I believe there is nothing on the other side of death to fear.

My biggest fear is losing memory because memory is what we are. Your very soul and your very reason to be alive is tied up in memory.

Surprise will be my last emotion, not fear.

The only thing you fear is the unreality that you yourself have invented.

As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.

I'm wary of a certain human nature. More than anything, I fear treason.

Fear is the base of what everybody does wrong in their lives.

...What you fear will not go away; it will take you into yourself and bless you and keep you. That's the world, and we all live there.

Our biggest enemy is our own self-doubt. We really can achieve extraordinary things in our lives. But we sabotage our greatness because of our fear

The best way to overcome fear is to face with equanimity the situation of which one is afraid.

Procrastination is One of those Excuses, Born of Fear, that we Use to Keep Ourselves Stuck

Fear is like the steam that fires the combustion engine. You need fear to get a performance going.

Fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.

If we would only see that all limitations are self imposed and chosen out of fear, we would leap at once.

Pride was my wilderness, and the demon that led me there was fear.

The hijacking of an American jet in Athens looms larger in our concern than the parent who kills a child, even though the one happens rarely, and the other happens daily.

I think it's one of the main negative emotional ingredients that fuels show business, because there's so much at stake and the fear of failure looms large.

Find what you are afraid of, face it, and then you won't be afraid of it anymore.

If death causes you no pain when you're dead, it is foolish to allow the fear of it to cause you pain now.

Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other.

Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

Behind every fear, there is a miracle waiting.

Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.

The question I'm constantly asking myself is: what are we afraid of? I think it's important for us to follow that line of fear, because that is ultimately our line of growth.