They did interviews with my wife and daughter-they were genuinely in fear of me having a heart attack, working 20 hours a day, eating fast food.
- Willie Aames
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.
- Diane Abbott
Once you've got a task to do, it's better o do it than to live with the fear of it.
- Joe Abercrombie
The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil.
- Amit Abraham
Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness.
It was deeper and more intimate that the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw.
Okonkwo's fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself.
- Chinua Achebe
I had always wanted to go down that path at some point, I just hadn't met anyone to go down it with. which begged another question: why hadn't I? What was wrong with me? Oh yes, I knew exactly what I was crying about. It was the fear of being a last resort. Of missing out. And not just on one Saturday night of partying with people I didn't know. On life. The life that everyone else seemed to find so easy to have.
- Carrie Adams
They live in perpetual fear of the time they call The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief
- Douglas Adams
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
- Joseph Addison
There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.
- Isabelle Adjani
I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.
- Isabelle Adjani
When I like someone a lot, I get scared that I'll let them down. My fear of sucking is worst when I feel like someone thinks I'm good.
- Casey Affleck
Some of these walls had been of my own making; my rebellion, my resistance; my arrogance, my need for control. Some had been built around me by the misfortunes of life; my loneliness; my orphaned heart; my fear of rejection. I had kept God at bay, and cheated myself of the warmth of His mercy.
- Tessa Afshar
..Napoleon once dismissed religion as 'what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.' Meaning, without the fear of God--or literally the hell we might have to pay--the rest of us would just take what we wanted.
- Mitch Albom
Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
- Jack Lemmon
Death frees from the fear of dying
- Paulo Coelho
Tell your heard that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.
- Paulo Coelho
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
It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.
- Paulo Coelho
Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overcome all of the inhibitions and preconceptions of their era. They have been able to sing, to laugh, and to pray out loud; they have danced and shared what Saint Paul called 'the madness of saintliness'. They have been joyful - because those who love conquer the world and have no fear of loss. True love is an act of total surrender.
- Paulo Coelho
You shouldn't have asked," I said. "Love doesn't ask many questions, because if we stop to think we become fearful. It's an inexplicable fear; it's difficult even to describe it. Maybe it's the fear of being scorned, of not being accepted, or of breaking the spell. It's ridiculous, but that's the way it is. That's why you don't ask-you act. As you've said many times, you have to take risks.
- Paulo Coelho
It was then as he discovered that death could elude him that the fear of death returned.
- Paulo Coelho
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of faliure.
- Paulo Coelho
That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.
- Paulo Coelho
She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing forever everything that is familiar.
- Paulo Coelho
...I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years.
- Paulo Coelho
If a person is living out his destiny, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
- Paulo Coelho
In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.
- Alexander Alekhine
If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy.
- Dante Alighieri
The greatest fear of Jonathan is the love he feels for his sister.
- Cassandra Clare
Reparations," said Jem very suddenly, setting down the pen he was holding.
Will looked at him in puzzlement. "Is this a game? We just blurt out whatever word comes next to mind? In that case mine is 'genuphobia'. It means an unreasonable fear of knees."
"What's the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots?" inquired Jessamine.
- Cassandra Clare
We are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.
- Cassandra Clare
Is this a game? We just blurt out whatever word comes next to mind? In that case mine's 'genuphobia'. It means an unreasonable fear of knees."
"What's the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots?" inqired Jessamine.
- Cassandra Clare
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
- Ernest Hemingway
Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond.
- Ernest Hemingway
... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the fear of becoming the they that is talked about so dismissively, to refuse lying myths and easy moralities, to see ourselves as human, flawed, and extraordinary. All of us extraordinary
- Dorothy Allison
People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do the right thing because the world doesn't make sense if you don't. (145)
- Dorothy Allison
He was easily six feet tall. The teens' faces registered shock as he unfurled himself. But instead of trying put the fear of God in the bullies, he whispered in her ear.
You're going to miss your train.
- Debra Anastasia
Life is for the living. Don't let the fear of striking out let you from keep you from playing the game.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
I dropped all the guards. All the leashes, all the chains, everything that ever restrained me through the discipline and fear of discovery, I let it all go. No need to hide.
- Ilona Andrews
Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.
- Virginia C Andrews
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
- Oprah Winfrey
Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness.
- Hermann Hesse
I should not have had that fear of death when I wished for it all the same. The unhappiness that I need and long for is different. It is of the kind that will let me suffer with eagerness and lust after death. That is the unhappiness, or happiness, that I am waiting for.
- Hermann Hesse
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
- Jean Anouilh
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
- Louis Aragon
Merripen, despite his fear of heights, had often climbed a ladder to wash the second floor window for her. He had wanted her view of the outside world to be clear.
He had said the sky should always be blue for her.
- Lisa Kleypas
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
- Aristotle
There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
- Billie Joe Armstrong
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.
- Johann Arndt
The passion for being for ever with one's fellows, and the fear of being left for a few hours alone, is to me wholly incomprehensible. I can entertain myself quite well for weeks together, hardly aware, except for the pervading peace, that I have been alone at all.
- Elizabeth Von Arnim
The passion of being forever with one's fellows, and the fear of being left for a few hours alone, is to me wholly incomprehensible.
- Elizabeth Von Arnim
Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
- Chet Atkins
Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be..
- Margaret Atwood
The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
- David Herbert Lawrence
In a kinder world," he whispered, "one I promise you I've seen, men and women flirt and dance and love with only the fear of what it would mean without the other in their lives.
- Melina Marchetta
Your fear of the truth does not hide or dilute it.
- Steve Maraboli
Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity and fear of others. Never decide to do nothing just because you can only do little. Do what you can. You would be surprised at what "little" acts have done for our world.
- Steve Maraboli
Without any display of doing more than the rest, or any fear of doing too much, he was always true to her interests and considerate of her feelings, trying to make her good qualities understood, and to conquer the diffidence which prevented them from being more apparent; giving her advice, consolation, and encouragement.
- Jane Austen
But grant me from time to timeif there are divine goddesses in the realm beyond good and evilgrant me the sight, but one glance of something perfect, wholly achieved, happy, mighty, triumphant, something still capable of arousing fear! Of a man who justifies man, of a complementary and redeeming lucky hit on the part of man for the sake of which one may still believe in man!
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
- Abu Bakr
The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
- Abu Bakr
When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
- Abu Bakr
A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.
- Emily Greene Balch
Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent humanity, the mark of cruelty.
- James Baldwin
I have a fear of being boring.
- Christian Bale
Zombies are the liberal nightmare. Here you have the masses, whom you would love to love, appearing at your front door with their faces falling off; and you're trying to be as humane as you possibly can, but they are, after all, eating the cat. And the fear of mass activity, of mindlessness on a national scale, underlies my fear of zombies.
- Clive Barker
Wolves don't socialize with humans. You guys tend to freak out when you learn what we are. Not to mention, your females are rather frail. I don't like having to hold back for fear of bruising or killing my partner when I mate. (Vane)
And people think I speak my mind. Jeez. You will just say anything, won't you? (Sunshine)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.
- Lynda Barry
Also, I have a mornid fear of rates, and mice, and nettles and wasps and jagged cans and rotting food and damp newspapers and the unemployed.
- Colin Bateman
Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.
- Gregory Bateson
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
- Jean Baudrillard
To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down, and the things that plague us mostsuspicion and fear of the other, and the tendency to see whole groups of people as objects, as monoliths of one cultural stereotype or anotherare defeated.
- Richard Bausch
Lucy: Do you think you have Pantophobia, Charlie Brown?
Charlie: I don't know, what is pantophobia?
Lucy: The fear of Everything.
Charlie: THATS IT!!
- Charles M Schulz
I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am full of tears and hunger and the fear of death, although I cannot weep, and I want nothing, and I cannot die. I am not like the others now, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but I do. I regret.
- Peter S Beagle
Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.
- Cecil Beaton
I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.
- Pierre Beaumarchais
I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
- Pierre Beaumarchais
Fear of the unknown and the other is the root of almost all hate. It is born of ignorance and fed by those who would keep us divided.
- Tinnekke Bebout
It was the first time I had spoken to them directly. In doing so, I felt myself cross a fine but very distinct line, the line between speculating about the existence of a metaphysical plane of some sort and climbing aboard for the ride. I knew I had let go of my sanity. It was terrifying. I only did it because my fear of what was happening to my body had become greater than my fear of holding on to rational beliefs.
- Martha Beck
There is no denying it; one must admit that there is something astonishing about Christianity. 'It is because you were born in it,' they will say. Far from it; I stiffen myself against it for that very reason, for fear of being corrupted by prejudice. But, though I was born in it, I cannot help finding it astonishing.
- Blaise Pascal
What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
- Albert Camus
If a man is really into you, nothing will stop him from being with you - including a fear of intimacy.
- Greg Behrendt
Steal not this book for fear of shame
For on it is the owners name
And when you die the Lord will say
Where is the book you stole away
And when you say you do not know
The Lord will say go down below.
- L M Montgomery
Ghosts could walk freely tonight, without fear of the disbelief of men; for this night was haunted, and it would be an insensitive man who did not know it.
- John Steinbeck
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
- John Steinbeck
Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.
- Herman Wouk
Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
- Hans Bender
History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
- John Berger
Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death this infantile fixation of mine was, at that moment, overwhelming. I felt myself in contact with death day and night, and my fear was tremendous. When I finished the picture, my fear went away. I have the feeling simply of having painted a canvas in an enormous hurry with enormous pretension but without any arrogance. I said, 'Here is a painting; take it, please.
- Ingmar Bergman
My mother had a fear of doctors - other than her daughter marrying one.
- Shelley Berkley
Void fascinates those who daren't look into it. They throw themselves in, for fear of falling.
- Georges Bernanos
It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
- Georges Bernanos
I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.
- Sylvester Stallone
Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into.
- Wendell Berry
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.
- Henry Beston
I am Indonesian. I don't buy fear of western ghosts.
But when you deal with a giant garagasi of sumatera,
there's no word worth enough to express the eeriness.
- Toba Beta
Some men are so willing to know their future,
but unwilling to face the fear of their own death.
- Toba Beta
Fear of God is a beginning of knowledge.
The fear lessened on a higher knowledge.
Walk with God is on the top of knowledge.
- Toba Beta
I told myself that I'd had life too easy, conditioned by an upbringing where fear of change was disguised as caution.
- Ingrid Betancourt
The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
- Bruno Bettelheim
I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.
- Joe Biden
Just know that it's fear that keeps most people working at a job. The fear of not paying their bills. The fear of being fired. The fear of not having enough money. the fear of starting over.
That's the price of studying to learn a profession or trade, and then working for money. Most people become a slave to money... and then get angry at their boss.
- Robert Kiyosaki
It is said that the fear of public speaking is a fear greater than death for most people. According to psychiatrists, the fear of public speaking is caused by the fear of ostracism, the fear of standing out, the fear of criticism, the fear of ridicule, the fear of being an outcast. THE FEAR OF BEING DIFFERENT PREVENTS MOST PEOPLE FROM SEEKING NEW WAYS TO SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
- Otto Von Bismarck
I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.
- David Blaine
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
- Gary Ryan Blair
I hold life sacred, even more since I've tasted freedom,... But I've lost my fear of death... But if you join me, I will gladly give my life for you. Because this land and its people have lost too much.
- Lily Blake
I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.
- Sara Blakely
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
- Countess Of Blessington
Man is that which has still much before it. He is repeatedly transformed in his work and by it. The authentic in man and in the world is potential, waiting, living in fear of being frustrated, living in hope of succeeding.
- Ernst Bloch
The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.
- Judy Blume
Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.
- Judy Blume
Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain.
- Kit Bond
Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.
- Kjell Magne Bondevik
Guess what hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia means? Fear of long words. Isn't that the coolest? - Kevin McGill in Madhattan Mystery
- John J Bonk
For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that.
- Chastity Bono
The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.
- Norman Borlaug
I have this idea that every time we discover that the names we're being called are somehow keeping us less than free, we need to come up with new names for ourselves, and that the names we give ourselves must no longer reflect a fear of being labeled outsiders, must no longer bind us to a system that would rather see us dead.
- Kate Bornstein
A sharp decline in actual deprivation may, paradoxically, have been accompanied by an ongoing and even escalating sense of fear of deprivation.
- Alain De Botton
The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so of admitting that this is the only life that one is ever likely (heavenly intervention aside) to live.
- Alain De Botton
Do not hide your light for fear of what others may think of you. Let it shine and be a reflection of what is possible.
- Kristi Bowman
The emotion of fear often works overtime. Even when there is no immediate threat, our body may remain tight and on guard, our mind narrowed to focus on what might go wrong. When this happens, fear is no longer functioning to secure our survival. We are caught in the trance of fear and our moment-to-moment experience becomes bound in reactivity. We spend our time and energy defending our life rather than living it fully.
- Tara Brach
I have no fear of the dead. Indeed in my own limited experience I have found them to produce in me a feeling that is quite the opposite of fear. A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories. I'd had the good fortune of seeing several of them in my time.
- Alan Bradley
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression 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 D Brandeis
Sometimes I see it as a tricky mountain pass beween two valleys. Other times, it's like perilous straits connecting two lands. Partly it's the fear of the trip itself, I think, but partly it's the fear that won't be able to get back. I'll turn around and the cloud will have settled over the mountaintop. Or the waters will have risen and shifted, and there will be no way home.
- Ann Brashares
We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
- Gerald Brenan
If you thought eighth grade was tough, try it with fangs and a fear of garlic.
- Heather Brewer
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
- Salvador Dali
[...] nobody grows up. Everyone carries around all the selves that they have ever been, intact, waiting to be reactivated in moments of pain, of fear, of danger. Everything is retrievable, every shock, every hurt. But perhaps it becomes a duty to abandon the stock of time that one carries within oneself, to discard it in favour of the present, so that one's embrace may be turned outwards to the world in which one has made one's home.
- Anita Brookner
And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation the right to breathe air as nature provided it -- the right of future generations to a healthy existence? (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, American University speech)
- John F Kennedy
If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.
- Dalai Lama
In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when the feelings got too strong, I'd write you another letter. But I never sent them for fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn't ever want to lose that.
- Nicholas Sparks
No one in my family or my circle of friends had ever had to confront something like this. Jamie was seventeen, a child on the verge of womanhood, dying and still very much alive at the same time. I was afraid, more afraid than I'd ever been, not only for her, but for me as well. I lived in fear of doing something wrong, of doing something that would offend her. Was it okay to ever get angry in her presence? Was it okay to talk about the future anymore?
- Nicholas Sparks
We aren't going to choose paths of wisdom if we don't trust the One who has marked out those paths for us. Fear of the Lord is trust in the Lord
- Lydia Brownback
Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.
- Jerry Bruckheimer
To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.
- Steven Brust
States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.
- John Bruton
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
- Jean De La Bruyere
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
- Jean De La Bruyere
I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.
- Michael Buble
Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.
- John Buchan
Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.
- John Calvin
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.
- George Bernard Shaw
The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future.
But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present - they are real.
- Lois Mcmaster Bujold
Sharks have a deadly form of claustrophobia. It's not so much fear of enclosed spaces as it is inability to exist in them. No one knows why. Some say it's the metal in aquariums that throws their equilibrium off. But whatever it is, big sharks don't last long in captivity
- Neal Shusterman
How easy is murder when one calls it by a different name? How much easier is it for the conscience to condone "reaping" than "killing"and when one knows that death isn't the end, does it stop the killing hand for fear of retribution, or does it simply make it easier to kill, because, if life continues, how can murder be murder at all?
- Neal Shusterman
The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.
- Chuck Palahniuk
It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing poverty in dirt-poor banana republics. It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
- Mahatma Gandhi
I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.
- John Bunyan
You no longer feel the fear of a change of being and desire... The course of the hours lays not violent hands upon you ; necessity and chance guide not your steps... I can hardly write without envy.
--Michelangelo on the dead.
- Michelangelo Buonarroti
Your fear of letting go prevents you from letting go of your fear of letting go.
- John Burdett
Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
- Warren E Burger
I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.
- Stanley Kubrick
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.
- William S Burroughs
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
- Albert Einstein
A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
- Albert Einstein
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
- Albert Einstein
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
- William Hazlitt
It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.
- Jerome Cady
...the possibility of success was motivating me more than the fear of failure.
- Herman Cain
If on a winter's night a traveler, outside the town of Malbork, leaning from the steep slope without fear of wind or vertigo, looks down in the gathering shadow in a network of lines that enlace, in a network of lines that intersect, on the carpet of leaves illuminated by the moon around an empty grave-What story down there awaits its end?-he asks, anxious to hear the story.
- Italo Calvino
My main frustration is the fear of cancer from low dose radiation, even by radiologists.
- John Cameron
Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure.
- Julia Cameron
The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.
- Elias Canetti
We are ... the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the love of things turns out to have been groundless after all, for we do not love things or even possess them: they pass through our lives as barium passes through the digestive tract, unassimilated, their function merely to flash signals along the way.
- Ralph Caplan
No more fear of hunger. A new kind of freedom. But what then... what? What would my life be like on a daily basis? Most of it has been consumed with the acquisition of food. Take that away and I'm not really sure who I am, what my identity is. The idea scares me some.
- Suzanne Collins
I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.
- Donald Cargill
A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little.
- Benjamin Franklin
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
- William James
It was not fear of ridicule,
to which everyday life as a winged red person had accommodated Geryon early in life,
but this blank desertion of his own mind
that threw him into despair.
- Anne Carson
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
- George Washington Carver
It's always the fear of looking stupid that stops you from being awesome.
- Kiera Cass
It's the fear of looking stupid the keeps you from being awesome.
- Kiera Cass
What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?
- Jerome Cavanagh
We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and excessive. Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is almost unheard of. We are slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to become angry.
- Francis Chan
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
- Bill Cosby
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
- Bertrand Russell
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
- Winston Churchill
Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology.
- Jay Chiat
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.
- Julia Child
I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.
- Julia Child
When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.
- Chilon
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
- Noam Chomsky
The fear of death comes from limited awareness.
- Deepak Chopra
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
- Emile M Cioran
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
- Emile M Cioran
Religion comforts us for the defeat of our will to power. It adds new worlds to ours, and thus brings us hope of new conquests and new victories. We are converted to religion out of fear of suffocating within the narrow confines of this world.
- Emil Cioran
The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion...one would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.
- Emil Cioran
Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.
- Emil Cioran
I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.
- Kelly Clarkson
So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide
- William Tecumseh Sherman
Why does death engender fear? Because death meant change, a change greater then we have ever known, and because death was indeed a mirror that made us see ourselves as never before. A mirror that we should cover, as people in olden days covered mirrors when someone died, for fear of an evil. For with all our care and pain for those who had gone, it was ourselves too we felt the agony for. Perhaps ourselves above all.
- David Clement Davies
It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
- Jacqueline Cochran
- Willie Aames
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
- Mark Twain
I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.
- Diane Abbott
Once you've got a task to do, it's better o do it than to live with the fear of it.
- Joe Abercrombie
The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil.
- Amit Abraham
Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness.
It was deeper and more intimate that the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw.
Okonkwo's fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself.
- Chinua Achebe
I had always wanted to go down that path at some point, I just hadn't met anyone to go down it with. which begged another question: why hadn't I? What was wrong with me? Oh yes, I knew exactly what I was crying about. It was the fear of being a last resort. Of missing out. And not just on one Saturday night of partying with people I didn't know. On life. The life that everyone else seemed to find so easy to have.
- Carrie Adams
They live in perpetual fear of the time they call The Coming of the Great White Handkerchief
- Douglas Adams
The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
- Joseph Addison
There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.
- Isabelle Adjani
I have no fear of being less beautiful, I've always been afraid of not being beautiful.
- Isabelle Adjani
When I like someone a lot, I get scared that I'll let them down. My fear of sucking is worst when I feel like someone thinks I'm good.
- Casey Affleck
Some of these walls had been of my own making; my rebellion, my resistance; my arrogance, my need for control. Some had been built around me by the misfortunes of life; my loneliness; my orphaned heart; my fear of rejection. I had kept God at bay, and cheated myself of the warmth of His mercy.
- Tessa Afshar
..Napoleon once dismissed religion as 'what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.' Meaning, without the fear of God--or literally the hell we might have to pay--the rest of us would just take what we wanted.
- Mitch Albom
Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure.
- Jack Lemmon
Death frees from the fear of dying
- Paulo Coelho
Tell your heard that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And that no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.
- Paulo Coelho
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
It isn't the desire to abide by the law that makes everyone behave as society requires, but the fear of punishment. Each one of us carries a gallows inside us.
- Paulo Coelho
Those who are truly enlightened, those whose souls are illuminated by love, have been able to overcome all of the inhibitions and preconceptions of their era. They have been able to sing, to laugh, and to pray out loud; they have danced and shared what Saint Paul called 'the madness of saintliness'. They have been joyful - because those who love conquer the world and have no fear of loss. True love is an act of total surrender.
- Paulo Coelho
You shouldn't have asked," I said. "Love doesn't ask many questions, because if we stop to think we become fearful. It's an inexplicable fear; it's difficult even to describe it. Maybe it's the fear of being scorned, of not being accepted, or of breaking the spell. It's ridiculous, but that's the way it is. That's why you don't ask-you act. As you've said many times, you have to take risks.
- Paulo Coelho
It was then as he discovered that death could elude him that the fear of death returned.
- Paulo Coelho
There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of faliure.
- Paulo Coelho
That is why embittered people find heroes and madmen a perennial source of fascination, for they have no fear of life or death. Both heroes and madmen are indifferent to danger and will forge ahead regardless of what other people say.
- Paulo Coelho
She had just realized there were two things that prevent us from achieving our dreams: believing them to be impossible or seeing those dreams made possible by some sudden turn of the wheel of fortune, when you least expected it. For at that moment, all our fears suddenly surface: the fear of setting off along a road heading who knows where, the fear of a life full of new challenges, the fear of losing forever everything that is familiar.
- Paulo Coelho
...I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work. Now, I'm beginning what I could have started ten years ago. But I'm happy at least that I didn't wait twenty years.
- Paulo Coelho
If a person is living out his destiny, he knows everything he needs to know. There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.
- Paulo Coelho
In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.
- Alexander Alekhine
If i thought i was replying to someone who would every return to the world, this flame would cease it's flickering. But since no one has returned from these depths alive, if what I've heard is true, I will answer you without fear of infamy.
- Dante Alighieri
The greatest fear of Jonathan is the love he feels for his sister.
- Cassandra Clare
Reparations," said Jem very suddenly, setting down the pen he was holding.
Will looked at him in puzzlement. "Is this a game? We just blurt out whatever word comes next to mind? In that case mine is 'genuphobia'. It means an unreasonable fear of knees."
"What's the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots?" inquired Jessamine.
- Cassandra Clare
We are chained to this life by a chain of gold, and we dare not sever it for fear of what lies beyond the drop.
- Cassandra Clare
Is this a game? We just blurt out whatever word comes next to mind? In that case mine's 'genuphobia'. It means an unreasonable fear of knees."
"What's the word for a perfectly reasonable fear of annoying idiots?" inqired Jessamine.
- Cassandra Clare
Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth.
- Ernest Hemingway
Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond.
- Ernest Hemingway
... suffering does not ennoble. It destroys. To resist destruction, self-hatred, or lifelong hopelessness, we have to throw off the conditioning of being despised, the fear of becoming the they that is talked about so dismissively, to refuse lying myths and easy moralities, to see ourselves as human, flawed, and extraordinary. All of us extraordinary
- Dorothy Allison
People don't do right because of the fear of God or love of him. You do the right thing because the world doesn't make sense if you don't. (145)
- Dorothy Allison
He was easily six feet tall. The teens' faces registered shock as he unfurled himself. But instead of trying put the fear of God in the bullies, he whispered in her ear.
You're going to miss your train.
- Debra Anastasia
Life is for the living. Don't let the fear of striking out let you from keep you from playing the game.
- Laurie Halse Anderson
I dropped all the guards. All the leashes, all the chains, everything that ever restrained me through the discipline and fear of discovery, I let it all go. No need to hide.
- Ilona Andrews
Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.
- Virginia C Andrews
The thing you fear most has no power. Your fear of it is what has the power. Facing the truth really will set you free.
- Oprah Winfrey
Each man had only one genuine vocation - to find the way to himself....His task was to discover his own destiny - not an arbitrary one - and to live it out wholly and resolutely within himself. Everything else was only a would-be existence, an attempt at evasion, a flight back to the ideals of the masses, conformity and fear of one's own inwardness.
- Hermann Hesse
I should not have had that fear of death when I wished for it all the same. The unhappiness that I need and long for is different. It is of the kind that will let me suffer with eagerness and lust after death. That is the unhappiness, or happiness, that I am waiting for.
- Hermann Hesse
We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.
- Jean Anouilh
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.
- Louis Aragon
Merripen, despite his fear of heights, had often climbed a ladder to wash the second floor window for her. He had wanted her view of the outside world to be clear.
He had said the sky should always be blue for her.
- Lisa Kleypas
I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.
- Aristotle
There's an honesty in our family - my kids and I are able to talk about things without me putting the fear of God into them.
- Billie Joe Armstrong
Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate as a poison to the soul, however pleasant and salutary it may appear to be to the body.
- Johann Arndt
The passion for being for ever with one's fellows, and the fear of being left for a few hours alone, is to me wholly incomprehensible. I can entertain myself quite well for weeks together, hardly aware, except for the pervading peace, that I have been alone at all.
- Elizabeth Von Arnim
The passion of being forever with one's fellows, and the fear of being left for a few hours alone, is to me wholly incomprehensible.
- Elizabeth Von Arnim
Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre.
- Chet Atkins
Immortality,' said Crake, ' is a concept. If you take 'mortality' as being, not death, but the foreknowledge of it and the fear of it, then 'immortality' is the absence of such fear. Babies are immortal. Edit out the fear, and you'll be..
- Margaret Atwood
The Christian fear of the pagan outlook has damaged the whole consciousness of man.
- David Herbert Lawrence
In a kinder world," he whispered, "one I promise you I've seen, men and women flirt and dance and love with only the fear of what it would mean without the other in their lives.
- Melina Marchetta
Your fear of the truth does not hide or dilute it.
- Steve Maraboli
Protect your enthusiasm from the negativity and fear of others. Never decide to do nothing just because you can only do little. Do what you can. You would be surprised at what "little" acts have done for our world.
- Steve Maraboli
Without any display of doing more than the rest, or any fear of doing too much, he was always true to her interests and considerate of her feelings, trying to make her good qualities understood, and to conquer the diffidence which prevented them from being more apparent; giving her advice, consolation, and encouragement.
- Jane Austen
But grant me from time to timeif there are divine goddesses in the realm beyond good and evilgrant me the sight, but one glance of something perfect, wholly achieved, happy, mighty, triumphant, something still capable of arousing fear! Of a man who justifies man, of a complementary and redeeming lucky hit on the part of man for the sake of which one may still believe in man!
- Friedrich Nietzsche
The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.
- Abu Bakr
The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.
- Abu Bakr
When you advise any person you should be guided by the fear of God.
- Abu Bakr
A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.
- Emily Greene Balch
Sentimentality, the ostentatious parading of excessive and spurious emotion, is the mark of dishonesty...the wet eyes of the sentimentalist betray his aversion to experience, his fear of life, his arid heart; and it is always, therefore, the signal of secret and violent humanity, the mark of cruelty.
- James Baldwin
I have a fear of being boring.
- Christian Bale
Zombies are the liberal nightmare. Here you have the masses, whom you would love to love, appearing at your front door with their faces falling off; and you're trying to be as humane as you possibly can, but they are, after all, eating the cat. And the fear of mass activity, of mindlessness on a national scale, underlies my fear of zombies.
- Clive Barker
Wolves don't socialize with humans. You guys tend to freak out when you learn what we are. Not to mention, your females are rather frail. I don't like having to hold back for fear of bruising or killing my partner when I mate. (Vane)
And people think I speak my mind. Jeez. You will just say anything, won't you? (Sunshine)
- Sherrilyn Kenyon
I live in constant fear of being fired or dropped for that dark part of my work I can't control.
- Lynda Barry
Also, I have a mornid fear of rates, and mice, and nettles and wasps and jagged cans and rotting food and damp newspapers and the unemployed.
- Colin Bateman
Every move we make in fear of the next war in fact hastens it.
- Gregory Bateson
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.
- Jean Baudrillard
To my mind, nothing is as important as good writing, because in literature, the walls between people and cultures are broken down, and the things that plague us mostsuspicion and fear of the other, and the tendency to see whole groups of people as objects, as monoliths of one cultural stereotype or anotherare defeated.
- Richard Bausch
Lucy: Do you think you have Pantophobia, Charlie Brown?
Charlie: I don't know, what is pantophobia?
Lucy: The fear of Everything.
Charlie: THATS IT!!
- Charles M Schulz
I have been mortal, and some part of me is mortal yet. I am full of tears and hunger and the fear of death, although I cannot weep, and I want nothing, and I cannot die. I am not like the others now, for no unicorn was ever born who could regret, but I do. I regret.
- Peter S Beagle
Americans have an abiding belief in their ability to control reality by purely material means... airline insurance replaces the fear of death with the comforting prospect of cash.
- Cecil Beaton
I quickly laugh at everything for fear of having to cry.
- Pierre Beaumarchais
I hasten to laugh at everything, for fear of being obliged to weep.
- Pierre Beaumarchais
Fear of the unknown and the other is the root of almost all hate. It is born of ignorance and fed by those who would keep us divided.
- Tinnekke Bebout
It was the first time I had spoken to them directly. In doing so, I felt myself cross a fine but very distinct line, the line between speculating about the existence of a metaphysical plane of some sort and climbing aboard for the ride. I knew I had let go of my sanity. It was terrifying. I only did it because my fear of what was happening to my body had become greater than my fear of holding on to rational beliefs.
- Martha Beck
There is no denying it; one must admit that there is something astonishing about Christianity. 'It is because you were born in it,' they will say. Far from it; I stiffen myself against it for that very reason, for fear of being corrupted by prejudice. But, though I was born in it, I cannot help finding it astonishing.
- Blaise Pascal
What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly.
- Albert Camus
If a man is really into you, nothing will stop him from being with you - including a fear of intimacy.
- Greg Behrendt
Steal not this book for fear of shame
For on it is the owners name
And when you die the Lord will say
Where is the book you stole away
And when you say you do not know
The Lord will say go down below.
- L M Montgomery
Ghosts could walk freely tonight, without fear of the disbelief of men; for this night was haunted, and it would be an insensitive man who did not know it.
- John Steinbeck
Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power.
- John Steinbeck
Peace, if it ever exists, will not be based on the fear of war, but on the love of peace. It will not be the abstaining from an act, but the coming of a state of mind.
- Herman Wouk
Good and evil do not exist for me any more. The fear of evil is merely a mass projection here and on Earth.
- Hans Bender
History always constitutes the relation between a present and its past. Consequently fear of the present leads to mystification of the past
- John Berger
Say anything you want against The Seventh Seal. My fear of death this infantile fixation of mine was, at that moment, overwhelming. I felt myself in contact with death day and night, and my fear was tremendous. When I finished the picture, my fear went away. I have the feeling simply of having painted a canvas in an enormous hurry with enormous pretension but without any arrogance. I said, 'Here is a painting; take it, please.
- Ingmar Bergman
My mother had a fear of doctors - other than her daughter marrying one.
- Shelley Berkley
Void fascinates those who daren't look into it. They throw themselves in, for fear of falling.
- Georges Bernanos
It is the perpetual dread of fear, the fear of fear, that shapes the face of a brave man.
- Georges Bernanos
I have a lack of fear, whereas in the past the fear of failure was a powerful motivator. Anyway, I have great expectations for the future, but I just don't know if I'm the monarch of all I survey.
- Sylvester Stallone
Always in the big woods when you leave familiar ground and step off alone into a new place there will be, along with the feelings of curiosity and excitement, a little nagging of dread. It is the ancient fear of the Unknown, and it is your first bond with the wilderness you are going into.
- Wendell Berry
Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.
- Henry Beston
I am Indonesian. I don't buy fear of western ghosts.
But when you deal with a giant garagasi of sumatera,
there's no word worth enough to express the eeriness.
- Toba Beta
Some men are so willing to know their future,
but unwilling to face the fear of their own death.
- Toba Beta
Fear of God is a beginning of knowledge.
The fear lessened on a higher knowledge.
Walk with God is on the top of knowledge.
- Toba Beta
I told myself that I'd had life too easy, conditioned by an upbringing where fear of change was disguised as caution.
- Ingrid Betancourt
The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.
- Bruno Bettelheim
I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.
- Joe Biden
Just know that it's fear that keeps most people working at a job. The fear of not paying their bills. The fear of being fired. The fear of not having enough money. the fear of starting over.
That's the price of studying to learn a profession or trade, and then working for money. Most people become a slave to money... and then get angry at their boss.
- Robert Kiyosaki
It is said that the fear of public speaking is a fear greater than death for most people. According to psychiatrists, the fear of public speaking is caused by the fear of ostracism, the fear of standing out, the fear of criticism, the fear of ridicule, the fear of being an outcast. THE FEAR OF BEING DIFFERENT PREVENTS MOST PEOPLE FROM SEEKING NEW WAYS TO SOLVE THEIR PROBLEMS.
- Robert Kiyosaki
Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
- Otto Von Bismarck
I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.
- David Blaine
Discipline is based on pride, on meticulous attention to details, and on mutual respect and confidence. Discipline must be a habit so ingrained that it is stronger than the excitement of the goal or the fear of failure.
- Gary Ryan Blair
I hold life sacred, even more since I've tasted freedom,... But I've lost my fear of death... But if you join me, I will gladly give my life for you. Because this land and its people have lost too much.
- Lily Blake
I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.
- Sara Blakely
Superstition is only the fear of belief, while religion is the confidence.
- Countess Of Blessington
Man is that which has still much before it. He is repeatedly transformed in his work and by it. The authentic in man and in the world is potential, waiting, living in fear of being frustrated, living in hope of succeeding.
- Ernst Bloch
The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.
- Judy Blume
Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives. To experience adventure or to be limited by the fear of it.
- Judy Blume
Remember, we know the end of the story of World War II and the Cold War. But day by day, living in fear of the Nazis and then in fear of the Soviets, the outcome was by no means certain.
- Kit Bond
Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.
- Kjell Magne Bondevik
Guess what hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia means? Fear of long words. Isn't that the coolest? - Kevin McGill in Madhattan Mystery
- John J Bonk
For me, it was never a question of whether or not I was transgender. It was a question of what I'd be able to handle transitioning and having to do it in the public eye. One of the issues that was hard for me to overcome was the fear of that.
- Chastity Bono
The forgotten world is made up primarily of the developing nations, where most of the people, comprising more than fifty percent of the total world population, live in poverty, with hunger as a constant companion and fear of famine a continual menace.
- Norman Borlaug
I have this idea that every time we discover that the names we're being called are somehow keeping us less than free, we need to come up with new names for ourselves, and that the names we give ourselves must no longer reflect a fear of being labeled outsiders, must no longer bind us to a system that would rather see us dead.
- Kate Bornstein
A sharp decline in actual deprivation may, paradoxically, have been accompanied by an ongoing and even escalating sense of fear of deprivation.
- Alain De Botton
The inability to live in the present lies in the fear of leaving the sheltered position of anticipation or memory, and so of admitting that this is the only life that one is ever likely (heavenly intervention aside) to live.
- Alain De Botton
Do not hide your light for fear of what others may think of you. Let it shine and be a reflection of what is possible.
- Kristi Bowman
The emotion of fear often works overtime. Even when there is no immediate threat, our body may remain tight and on guard, our mind narrowed to focus on what might go wrong. When this happens, fear is no longer functioning to secure our survival. We are caught in the trance of fear and our moment-to-moment experience becomes bound in reactivity. We spend our time and energy defending our life rather than living it fully.
- Tara Brach
I have no fear of the dead. Indeed in my own limited experience I have found them to produce in me a feeling that is quite the opposite of fear. A dead body is much more fascinating than a live one and I have learned that most corpses tell better stories. I'd had the good fortune of seeing several of them in my time.
- Alan Bradley
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression 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 D Brandeis
Sometimes I see it as a tricky mountain pass beween two valleys. Other times, it's like perilous straits connecting two lands. Partly it's the fear of the trip itself, I think, but partly it's the fear that won't be able to get back. I'll turn around and the cloud will have settled over the mountaintop. Or the waters will have risen and shifted, and there will be no way home.
- Ann Brashares
We confess our bad qualities to others out of fear of appearing naive or ridiculous by not being aware of them.
- Gerald Brenan
If you thought eighth grade was tough, try it with fangs and a fear of garlic.
- Heather Brewer
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
- Salvador Dali
[...] nobody grows up. Everyone carries around all the selves that they have ever been, intact, waiting to be reactivated in moments of pain, of fear, of danger. Everything is retrievable, every shock, every hurt. But perhaps it becomes a duty to abandon the stock of time that one carries within oneself, to discard it in favour of the present, so that one's embrace may be turned outwards to the world in which one has made one's home.
- Anita Brookner
And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation the right to breathe air as nature provided it -- the right of future generations to a healthy existence? (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, American University speech)
- John F Kennedy
If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.
- Dalai Lama
In time, the hurt began to fade and it was easier to just let it go. At least I thought it was. But in every boy I met in the next few years, I found myself looking for you, and when the feelings got too strong, I'd write you another letter. But I never sent them for fear of what I might find. By then, you'd gone on with your life and I didn't want to think about you loving someone else. I wanted to remember us like we were that summer. I didn't ever want to lose that.
- Nicholas Sparks
No one in my family or my circle of friends had ever had to confront something like this. Jamie was seventeen, a child on the verge of womanhood, dying and still very much alive at the same time. I was afraid, more afraid than I'd ever been, not only for her, but for me as well. I lived in fear of doing something wrong, of doing something that would offend her. Was it okay to ever get angry in her presence? Was it okay to talk about the future anymore?
- Nicholas Sparks
We aren't going to choose paths of wisdom if we don't trust the One who has marked out those paths for us. Fear of the Lord is trust in the Lord
- Lydia Brownback
Definitely, it's a fear of failure that drives me.
- Jerry Bruckheimer
To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear, never to seek out danger for its own sake. Never to conform to fashion from fear of eccentricity, never to be eccentric from fear of conformity.
- Steven Brust
States can be deterred by the fear of retaliation; non-state organisations cannot by deterred at all.
- John Bruton
We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.
- Jean De La Bruyere
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
- Jean De La Bruyere
I have a tendency to sabotage relationships; I have a tendency to sabotage everything. Fear of success, fear of failure, fear of being afraid. Useless, good-for-nothing thoughts.
- Michael Buble
Peace is that state in which fear of any kind is unknown.
- John Buchan
Without the fear of God, men do not even observe justice and charity among themselves.
- John Calvin
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.
- George Bernard Shaw
The real unforgivable acts are committed by calm men in beautiful green silk rooms, who deal death wholesale, by the shipload, without lust, without anger, or desire, or any redeeming emotion to excuse them but cold fear of some pretended future.
But the crimes they hope to prevent in that future are imaginary. The ones they commit in the present - they are real.
- Lois Mcmaster Bujold
Sharks have a deadly form of claustrophobia. It's not so much fear of enclosed spaces as it is inability to exist in them. No one knows why. Some say it's the metal in aquariums that throws their equilibrium off. But whatever it is, big sharks don't last long in captivity
- Neal Shusterman
How easy is murder when one calls it by a different name? How much easier is it for the conscience to condone "reaping" than "killing"and when one knows that death isn't the end, does it stop the killing hand for fear of retribution, or does it simply make it easier to kill, because, if life continues, how can murder be murder at all?
- Neal Shusterman
The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only lived on paper. Your only adventures were make-believe, and while the world fought and kissed, you sat in some dark room masturbating and making money.
- Chuck Palahniuk
It's obsequious little nicety-nice girls like me who allow assholes to run the world: Miss Harlot O'Harlots, billionaire phony tree huggers, hypocrite drug-snorting, weed-puffing peace activists who fund the mass-murdering drug cartels and perpetuate crushing poverty in dirt-poor banana republics. It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enables atrocities.
- Chuck Palahniuk
Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.
- Mahatma Gandhi
I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Though there is not always grace where there is the fear of hell, yet, to be sure, there is no grace where there is no fear of God.
- John Bunyan
You no longer feel the fear of a change of being and desire... The course of the hours lays not violent hands upon you ; necessity and chance guide not your steps... I can hardly write without envy.
--Michelangelo on the dead.
- Michelangelo Buonarroti
Your fear of letting go prevents you from letting go of your fear of letting go.
- John Burdett
Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.
- Warren E Burger
I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.
- Stanley Kubrick
It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Fear of death is form of stasis horrors. The dead weight of time.
- William S Burroughs
A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
- Albert Einstein
A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
- Albert Einstein
The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead.
- Albert Einstein
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Perhaps the best cure for the fear of death is to reflect that life has a beginning as well as an end. There was a time when we were not: this gives us no concern. Why, then, should it trouble us that a time will come when we shall cease to be?
- William Hazlitt
It's fear of being afraid that frightens me more than anything else.
- Jerome Cady
...the possibility of success was motivating me more than the fear of failure.
- Herman Cain
If on a winter's night a traveler, outside the town of Malbork, leaning from the steep slope without fear of wind or vertigo, looks down in the gathering shadow in a network of lines that enlace, in a network of lines that intersect, on the carpet of leaves illuminated by the moon around an empty grave-What story down there awaits its end?-he asks, anxious to hear the story.
- Italo Calvino
My main frustration is the fear of cancer from low dose radiation, even by radiologists.
- John Cameron
Artistic anorexia & sexual avoidance have the same root fears fear of intimacy, fear of exposure, fear of failure.
- Julia Cameron
The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness.
- Elias Canetti
We are ... the un-proud non-possessors of objects whose chief substance is that of the transient symbol. Our Puritan fear of the love of things turns out to have been groundless after all, for we do not love things or even possess them: they pass through our lives as barium passes through the digestive tract, unassimilated, their function merely to flash signals along the way.
- Ralph Caplan
No more fear of hunger. A new kind of freedom. But what then... what? What would my life be like on a daily basis? Most of it has been consumed with the acquisition of food. Take that away and I'm not really sure who I am, what my identity is. The idea scares me some.
- Suzanne Collins
I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause.
- Donald Cargill
A man being sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps thro' fear of being thought to have but little.
- Benjamin Franklin
The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.
- William James
It was not fear of ridicule,
to which everyday life as a winged red person had accommodated Geryon early in life,
but this blank desertion of his own mind
that threw him into despair.
- Anne Carson
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
- George Washington Carver
It's always the fear of looking stupid that stops you from being awesome.
- Kiera Cass
It's the fear of looking stupid the keeps you from being awesome.
- Kiera Cass
What will it profit this country if we... put our man on the Moon by 1970 and at the same time you can't walk down Woodward Avenue in this city without fear of some violence?
- Jerome Cavanagh
We are a culture that relies on technology over community, a society in which spoken and written words are cheap, easy to come by, and excessive. Our culture says anything goes; fear of God is almost unheard of. We are slow to listen, quick to speak, and quick to become angry.
- Francis Chan
In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
- Bill Cosby
Boredom is... a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
- Bertrand Russell
The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.
- Winston Churchill
Technology is the fashion of the '90s. It affects everyone, and everyone is interested in it - either from fear of being left behind or because they have a real need to use technology.
- Jay Chiat
The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you've got to have a what-the-hell attitude.
- Julia Child
I think one of the terrible things today is that people have this deathly fear of food: fear of eggs, say, or fear of butter. Most doctors feel that you can have a little bit of everything.
- Julia Child
When strong, be merciful, if you would have the respect, not the fear of your neighbors.
- Chilon
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.
- Noam Chomsky
The fear of death comes from limited awareness.
- Deepak Chopra
Isn't history ultimately the result of our fear of boredom?
- Emile M Cioran
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.
- Emile M Cioran
Religion comforts us for the defeat of our will to power. It adds new worlds to ours, and thus brings us hope of new conquests and new victories. We are converted to religion out of fear of suffocating within the narrow confines of this world.
- Emil Cioran
The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion...one would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.
- Emil Cioran
Death makes no sense except to people who have passionately loved life. How can one die without having something to part from? Detachment is a negation of both life and death. Whoever has overcome his fear of death has also triumphed over life. For life is nothing but another word for this fear.
- Emil Cioran
I have a big fear of change, or negative change, anyway. I'm basically the same person I was when I won 'Idol,' or when I was 10.
- Kelly Clarkson
So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand that they respect yours. Love your life, perfect your life, beautify all things in your life. Seek to make your life long and its purpose in the service of your people. Prepare a noble death song for the day when you go over the great divide
- William Tecumseh Sherman
Why does death engender fear? Because death meant change, a change greater then we have ever known, and because death was indeed a mirror that made us see ourselves as never before. A mirror that we should cover, as people in olden days covered mirrors when someone died, for fear of an evil. For with all our care and pain for those who had gone, it was ourselves too we felt the agony for. Perhaps ourselves above all.
- David Clement Davies
It comes with faith, for with complete faith there is no fear of what faces you in life or death.
- Jacqueline Cochran
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