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Quotes About Fear

A risk-free life is far from being a healthy life.
~ Deepak Chopra
Beyond what we wish and what we fear may happen we have another life, as clear and free as a mountain stream.
~ Rumi
A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life.
~ Ruth Gordon
Not me, paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much.
~ Thomas Pynchon
You should always do the things in life that are both interesting and make you afraid.
~ Viggo Mortensen
When it feels scary to jump, that's exactly when you jump. Otherwise you end up staying the same place your whole life. And that I can't do.
~ J. C. Chandor
Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.
~ Robert Falcon Scott
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.
~ Christian Nestell Bovee
Acting in anger and hatred throughout my life, I frequently precipitated what I feared most, the loss of friendships and the need to rely upon the very people I'd abused.
~ Luke Ford
Every stage of life has its own form of power, and we're always sort of terrified as to whether we can make the jump to the next form of power.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
My fear was like a stray dog, roving the neighborhood of my life, looking for a new source of worry.
~ Danzy Senna
Courage is not the absence of fear and pain, but the affirmation of life despite fear and pain.
~ Earl A Grollman
Of all the mental and physical polluters of life, nothing exercises such a poisonous effect as fear.
~ Elbert Hubbard
...life is all about chances. You might be safer not taking any. But playing it totally safe means you're only existing. Not living. I want to live.
~ Ellen Hopkins
If you're living your life in fear, then you're just not living.
~ Demi Lovato
To go back is nothing but death; but to go forward is fear of death and life everlasting beyond.
~ John Bunyan
For the first time in my life, I have tasted life. Life is wonderful but very dangerous. If you have the courage to live it - it's marvelous!
~ Lionel Barrymore
Conservatism clings to what has been established, fearing that, once we begin to question the beliefs that we have inherited, all the values of life will be destroyed.
~ Morris Raphael Cohen
My worthiness is all my doubt His Merit- all my fear- Contrasting which my quality Does however appear
~ Abdul Kalam
When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.
~ Al Gore
All the things I've loved the most in life were my biggest risks.
~ Alicia Silverstone
I think what I mostly realize is just that life is unpredictable. So don't be afraid, but just enjoy the day you're in. Really make the most of it.
~ Amy Grant
All of life and human relations have become so incomprehensibly complex that, when you think about it, it becomes terrifying and your heart stands still.
~ Anton Chekhov
I don't think I've ever been as scared in my life as I was to be extraordinarily honest with my kids.
~ Bruce Jenner