Quotes About Fear

Don't bind yourself, with the chains of desire and fear, to things that are outside your sphere of control. This is a matter of sanity." —Epictetus

Start praying like this and you'll see. Not "some way to sleep with her"—but a way to stop wanting to. Not "some way to get rid of him"—but a way to stop trying. Not "some way to save my child"—but a way to lose your fear. Redirect your prayers like that, and watch what happens.

You're an old man now. It's time to stop being a slave; to no longer be pulled along like a puppet on strings; to stop being dissatisfied with today and afraid of tomorrow.

and shalt respect thy mind only, and that divine part of thine, and this shall be thine only fear

whom thou dost stand in fear of what they shall judge of thee, what they themselves judge of themselves.

And above all, that it accepts death in a cheerful spirit, as nothing but the dissolution of the elements from which each living thing is composed. If it doesn't hurt the individual elements to change continually into one another, why are people afraid of all of them changing and separating? It's a natural thing. And nothing natural is evil.

Fear of death is fear of what we may experience. Nothing at all, or something quite new. But if we experience nothing, we can experience nothing bad. And if our experience changes, then our existence will change with it—change, but not cease.

Consider each individual thing you do and ask yourself whether to lose it through death makes death itself any cause for fear.

with food and drink and magic spells Seeking some novel way to frustrate death.

Again, he that feareth pains and crosses in this world, feareth some of those things which some time or other must needs happen in the world.

29. Examine cada um dos seus atos, separadamente, e pergunte a si mesmo se a morte deve ser temida por lhe privar de tal ação.

with all meekness and a calm cheerfulness, to expect death, as being nothing else but the resolution of those elements, of which every creature is composed. And if the elements themselves suffer nothing by this their perpetual conversion of one into another, that dissolution, and alteration, which is so common unto all, why should it be feared by any?

Ia yang takut akan kematian, merasa takut mengalami kehilangan sensasi atau jenis sensasi lain yang berbeda. Namun, jika kau tidak lagi mengalami sensasi, maka kau tidak akan merasa sakit. Dan jika kau ingin mendapatkan sensasi yang berbeda maka kau akan menjadi makhluk yang berbeda dan kau tidak akan berhenti hidup.

Dread of death is a dread of non-sensation or new sensation. But either thou wilt feel no sensation, and so no sensation of any evil; or a different kind of sensation will be thine, and so the life of a different creature, but still a life.

Is any many so foolish as to fear change, to which all things that once were not owe their being?

Para que guarde la muerte en actitud placida, no viendo en ella otra cosa que la disolución de los elementos de que consta todo ser viviente. Si no hay nada temible para los mismos elementos en esta transformación incesante de uno en otro ¿por que temer a la transformación y disolución de todas las cosas? Esto es conforme a la naturaleza y nada es malo en cuanto a ella se acomoda

Liebgott stuck the Luger between the mayor's eyes and pulled the trigger. The Luger misfired. Right when it clicked, this German went off running down the road. Speirs said, 'Shoot him.' One of our men shot and missed. I shot about thirty feet over the mayor's head. Another man brought him down. I won't say who. --Don Bond

It is difficult to avoid the conclusion that fear is a more powerful political motive in our society than compassion.

The bottom line is it is going to get us all; we're all going to die"—then your response is likely to be one of self-protection in various ways. You will try to find security against the devouring power that will consume us all.

The notion that there was one "right" way of seeing things disappeared. This was enormously liberating, even if a bit alarming. But my curiosity was greater than my fear.

No power on earth, if it labours beneath the burden of fear, can possibly be strong enough to survive.

A hatred not shown and which remains concealed, is to be feared more than that which is openly voiced.

Turpis autem fuga mortis omni est morte pejor.

Hatreds not voiced, but which are concealed, is to be feared more than those openly declared.