Fear Quotes
Lots of Fear Quotes Below.
Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.
People living deeply have no fear of death.
Fear is not the natural state of civilized people
Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not
regarded as members of the herd.
Perhaps the most important thing we can undertake toward the reduction of fear is to make it easier
for people to accept themselves, to like themselves
Every time we choose safety, we reinforce fear
Everything I've ever done was out of fear of being mediocre
Death is not the biggest fear we have; our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive -- the risk
to be alive and express what we really are
The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness.
Fear grows in darkness; if you think there's a bogeyman around, turn on the light
[W]e now know that the human animal is characterized by two great fears that other animals are protected from:
the fear of life and the fear of death... Heidegger brought these fears to the center of his existential
philosophy. He argued that the basic anxiety of [humanity] is anxiety about being-in-the-world, as well as anxiety
of being-in-the-world. That is, both fear of death and fear of life, of experience and individuation.
One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be
used for something else. In fact, arguments often serve the purpose of using up energy, so that the couple do not
have to take the courageous, creative leap into an unknown they fear. Arguing serves the function of being a zone
of familiarity into which you can retreat when you are afraid of making a creative breakthrough.
Fear is an emotion indispensable for survival
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest
times, and to the latest
Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in awareness
Kindness trumps greed: it asks for sharing. Kindness trumps fear: it calls forth gratefulness and love. Kindness
trumps even stupidity, for with sharing and love, one learns.
And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are
liberated from our fear, our presence automatically liberates others.
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond
measure
Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is a freedom
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past
Keep your fears to yourself, but share your inspiration with others.
I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what
must be done does away with fear
Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth
religion.
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.
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