Quotes About Fear

We will not be driven by fear ... if we remember that we are not descended from fearful men.

Uncertainty and fear and ignorance about immigrants, about people who are different, has a history as old as our Nation.

This is the century of fear.

Within orthodoxy, there is always a danger of faith collapsing into fear.

You crystal break, for fear of breaking it: Careless and careful hands like faults commit.

Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.

Death is not the enemy; living in constant fear of it is.

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.

Courage is not the absence of fear. It is feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.

I would rather be a coward than brave because people hurt you when you are brave.

Fear is cruel and mean.

Why are you afraid of death? Where you are, death is not. Where death is, you are not. What is it that you fear.

Lucy: Do you think you have Pantophobia, Charlie Brown? Charlie: I don't know, what is pantophobia? Lucy: The fear of Everything. Charlie: THAT'S IT!!!

The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.

Impatience turns an ague into a fever, a fever to the plague, fear into despair, anger into rage, loss into madness, and sorrow to amazement.

Any device whatever by which one frees himself from the fear of others is a natural good.

When you rule in a culture of fear, you're not getting the best out of people.

Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.

We substitute, or we rather hide, this fear of real intimacy by a superficial kind of friendliness, which is quite nice, but nevertheless, very shallow.

there is every reason to fear that the State is growing ever more powerful, more autonomous, more indifferent to its own inhabitants.

Fear to do ill, and you need fear else.

Healing is bringing mercy and Awareness into that which we have held in judgment and fear.

Existence continues at death for the believer in a fuller, more fulfilling way. Death should hold no fear for the believer.