Quotes About Fear

The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.

Anti-racist propaganda is relentless and inescapable, as if the propagandists fear that if they shut up about it for a second, they'd instantly become racists themselves.

I dont fear death so much as I fear its prologues: loneliness, decrepitude, pain, debilitation, depression, senility. After a few years of those, I imagine death presents like a holiday at the beach.

What we fear we often rage against.

Gain confidence and you banish fear.

I am pretty fearless, and you know why? Because I don't handle fear very well; I'm not a good terrified person.

It was only as I wrote about fear that I began to find paths of access to feelings that were intolerable to me then.

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

Throughout the centuries we have projected on to the wolf the qualities we most despise and fear in ourselves.

Although the road is never ending take a step and keep walking, do not look fearfully into the distance... On this path let the heart be your guide for the body is hesitant and full of fear.

It is not the fear of death which creates the desire for immortality, but the desire for immortality which causes the fear of death.

Fear was given to man as a cautionary device to spare him pain; it is not mean to be cultivated and abused.

Breakthrough Advertising is not about building better mousetraps. It is, however, about building larger mice - and then building a terrifying fear of them in your customers.

Anger is nothing more than an outward expression of hurt, fear and frustration

What I fear is not being forgotten after my death, but, rather, not being enough forgotten. As we were saying, it is not our books that survive, but our poor lives that linger in the histories.

All religions have periods in their history which are looked back to with retrospective fear and trembling as eras of persecution, and each religion has its own book of martyrs.

Courage is the facing of a challenge with a healthy fear, not being fearless.

Courage has to do with controlling fear and it seems to me that focus has a way of overcoming anxiety.

Courage is the ability to conquer fear or despair, to be brave or have a quality of mind or temperament that enables you to stand fast in the face of opposition, hardship or danger.

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.