Fear Quotes - page 3

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. (Jean de La Fontaine)
Fear of serious injury cannot alone justify suppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears.
Louis Brandeis
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Salvador Dalí
The fear of becoming a "has been" keeps some people from becoming anything.
Eric Hoffer
It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.
Mignon McLaughlin
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
Marie Curie
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
Mark Twain
Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.
Pearl S. Buck
The purpose of life...is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death. (Epictetus)
It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
Marcus Aurelius
The poet does not fear death, not because he believes in the fantasy of heroes, but because death constantly visits his thoughts and is thus an image of a serene dialogue.
Salvatore Quasimodo
It is not the well-fed long-haired man I fear, but the pale and the hungry looking.
Julius Caesar
Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!
Robert Mugabe
When a child can be brought to tears, and not from fear of punishment, but from repentance he needs no chastisement. When the tears begin to flow from the grief of their conduct you can be sure there is an angel nestling in their heart.
Horace Mann
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.
Horace Mann
There is not a truth existing which I fear... or would wish unknown to the whole world.
Thomas Jefferson
The world has nothing to fear from military ambition in our Government.
James K. Polk
Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness.
James Thurber
Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love. (William Hazlitt)
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.
Douglas MacArthur
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
Umberto Eco
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
Graham Greene
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
Paulo Coelho