Quotes About Fear

Sure, fear can protect us from danger—but most of the time it just keeps us from life's great adventures.

It's better to get mugged than to live a life of fear.

Taking a new step. . .is what people fear most.

Security is the denial of life

Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.

He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.

As a musician, life is not over just because you are getting older, and so I find retirement a very frightening and dark thought.

If you seek security in life, unknowingly you seek death. The only truly secure place is your grave.

Death holds no horrors. It is simply the ultimate horror of life.

Lots of the things we do are dangerous, but life itself is dangerous; nothing is really worth bothering with that isn't full of danger

The appeal of the spectrally macabre is generally narrow because it demands from the reader a certain degree of imagination and a capacity for detachment from everyday life.

and every day I thank [God] that I am alive, not because I fear death, but because my wife has a husband and my son is not an orphan.

I was never afraid of anything in the world except the dentist.

Ofttimes the test of courage becomes rather to live than to die.

Fear is a very explosive emotion, but it has a short life span. It's the sprint. The marathon is hope.

Fear? What has a man to do with fear? Chance rules our lives, and the future is all unknown. Best live as we may, from day to day.

The risk it takes to remain tight inside the bud is more painful than the risk it takes to blossom. We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are.

The yogi cannot be afraid to die, because he has brought life to every cell of his body. We are afraid to die, because we are afraid we have not lived. The yogi has lived.

When you play it too safe, you're taking the biggest risk of your life. Time is the only wealth we're given.

There's lots of opportunities out there in life, but if you never put yourself out on a limb and take chances you'll never dare to be great at anything.

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.

Death can be more exciting than life.

We are afraid. But fear confirms life and identifies the source of every successful argument - ourselves.

It is cynicism and fear that freeze life; it is faith that thaws it out, releases it, sets it free.