Fear Quotes for Reflection & Healing – Page 6 | GloryQuotes

Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear.

William Congreve

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

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

Epicurus

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

John Cage

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

Mary Baker Eddy

There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

Jawaharlal Nehru

I understand why the Tories will be gunning for Alastair Campbell because they fear his campaigning skills.

Peter Mandelson

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

Mohandas Gandhi

Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

Miguel de Cervantes

As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.

L. Neil Smith

Cruelty is a tyrant that's always attended with fear.

Publicity gets more than a little tiring. You want it, you need it, you crave it, and you're scared as hell when it stops.

Joseph Barbera

That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.

Steve Irwin

How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset.

George MacDonald

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

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Some people are so afraid of getting to know themselves that they live and define their lives through the dreams and goals of others.

Darren L. Johnson

A peace that depends on fear is nothing but a suppressed war.

Henry Van Dyke

When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

Robert Green Ingersoll

People are so afraid of authority figures and doctors are authority figures.

Martha Beck

Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life.

Warren E. Burger

I fear that CAFTA will accelerate the demise of these domestic textile jobs.

Howard Coble

The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.

Edmund Waller

It is the privilege of those who fear love to murder those who do not fear it!

May Sarton

Over the next four years, we will be bold. We will be willing to experiment. We will not fear failure.

Matt Blunt

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

Edward Young

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire.

Jean de La Fontaine

The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.

John Lothrop Motley

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

Taylor Caldwell

We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it.

Charles Evers

Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy.

They who have conquered doubt and fear have conquered failure.

James Allen

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

Wilfred Owen

I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

Eleanor Roosevelt

One weeps not save when one is afraid, and that is why kings are tyrants.

Marquis de Sade

A premium in the oil price of somewhere between 10 to 15 dollars a barrel reflects this heightened anxiety.

Daniel Yergin

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

He killed his enemies because he was afraid they would kill him. Amin ordered entire tribes to be put to death, because he feared they would rebel.

Ryszard Kapuscinski

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

Marcus Fabius Quintilian

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us.

Bell Hooks

I have no fear of photography as long as it cannot be used in heaven and in hell.

Edvard Munch

There's a connection between the advances that are made in technology and the sense of primitive fear people develop in response to it.

Don DeLillo

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

Hermann Hesse

There is no passion so contagious as that of fear.

Michel de Montaigne

I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.

James Joyce

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

Dean Inge