Fear Quotes - page 10

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within. (James Baldwin)
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
Our repentance is not so much sorrow for the ill we have done as a fear of the ill that may befall us. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
The greatest want of the world is the want of men-men who will not be bought or sold, men who in their inmost souls are true and honest, men who do not fear to call sin by its right name, men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole, men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall. View quote
Ellen G. White
The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek. View quote
Joseph Campbell
We are now in the 21st century: all books, including the Koran, should be fair game for flushing down the toilet without fear of violent reprisal. View quote
Sam Harris
Love is the voice under all silences, the hope which has no opposite in fear the strength so strong mere force is feebleness the truth more first than sun, more last than star. View quote
E. E. Cummings
I never lie because I don't fear anyone. You only lie when you're afraid. View quote
John Gotti
Fear is unnatural. Lightning and thunder are unnatural. Pain, death, reality, these are all unnatural. We can't bear these things as they are. We know too much. So we resort to repression, compromise and disguise. This is how we survive the universe. This is the natural language of the species. View quote
Don DeLillo
Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here. (Marianne Williamson)
Fear is the brother of hate. View quote
Larry Niven
Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown. View quote
John Buchan
And always keep a hold of nurse, for fear of finding something worse. View quote
Hilaire Belloc
The weeds keep multiplying in our garden, which is our mind ruled by fear. Rip them out and call them by name. View quote
Sylvia Browne
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. View quote
Bertrand Russell
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd. View quote
Bertrand Russell
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. View quote
Bertrand Russell
None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear. View quote
Bertrand Russell
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong. (Jane Austen)
We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger. View quote
Tad Williams
The amateur believes he must first overcome his fear; then he can do his work. The professional knows that fear can never be overcome. He knows there is no such thing as a fearless warrior or a dread-free artist. View quote
Steven Pressfield
Seeing that a Pilot steers the ship in which we sail, who will never allow us to perish even in the midst of shipwrecks, there is no reason why our minds should be overwhelmed with fear and overcome with weariness. View quote
John Calvin
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. View quote
Thomas Hobbes