Quotes About Fear

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.

To defend oneself against a fear is simply to insure that one will, one day, be conquered by it; fears must be faced.

Dancing and ballets would undoubtedly take on a new lease on life, if the customs established by a spirit of fear and jealousy did not in some way close the path of glory.

When there's people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and things are stacked against you, you can get nervous.

Why, what should be the fear? I do not set my life at a pin's fee.

If you don't conquer your fear, you are going to miss out on some great things in life.

Without fear I can acknowledge that the authentic Christian tension is not between life and death, but between life and life.

We cannot find peace if we are afraid of the windstorms of life.

Most of us are tiptoeing through life so we can reach death safely. We should be praying, "If I should wake before I die. . . ." Life can get away from you.

Those who hate to go to bed fear death; those who hate to get up fear life.

The origin of the absurd idea of immortal life is easy to discover; it is kept alive by hope and fear, by childish faith, and by cowardice.

There is only one virtue, justice; only one duty, to be happy; only one corollary, not to overvalue life and not to fear death.

The time to worrying about flying is when you're on the ground. When you're up in the air, it's too late. No point in worrying about it then.

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.

Courage frees us from the fears that would rob us of life itself.

We're so afraid of death in our culture, but I think if we understand it better, then we'll appreciate the life we have more.

Those who never take risks can only see other people's failures.

Usually the threat of death makes people a lot more aware of their lives.

Drop the fear. Fear was taken up by you in your childhood, unconsciously. Now consciously drop it and be mature. Then the life can be a light which goes on deepening as you go on growing.

We are kept out of the Garden by our own fear and desire in relation to what we think to be the goods of our life.

I've always wanted to do a horror movie, and I grew up watching a lot of horror. I now, recently in life, don't have the stomach for it because I spend so much time in it.

Leaving my family behind was very scary. I had to grow up quick. But being so young and paying in this league [the WNBA], I'm glad I did it because it's been the best experience in my life.

Maybe you will be afraid and maybe you will fail, but the courage to take risks in any part of your life is, I feel, a very worthwhile way to live.