“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
Fear Quotes
Quotes tagged as "fear" Showing 121-150 of 10,342
Shannon L. Alder
“There will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you, belittle your accomplishments and judge your soul. It is a fact that we all must face. However, if you realize that God is a best friend that stands beside you when others cast stones you will never be afraid, never feel worthless and never feel alone.”
― Shannon Alder
tags: blessed, blown-off, confidence, cruel-people, cruelty, faith, fear, god-s-love, gossiped-about, hang-on, hurt, ignored, insecurity, jealousy, judgement, let-go, low-self-esteem, mean-people, move-on, name-calling, rejected, rumors, self-esteem, self-worth724 likes
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Winston S. Churchill
“...But the Mahommedan religion increases, instead of lessening, the fury of intolerance. It was originally propagated by the sword, and ever since, its votaries have been subject, above the people of all other creeds, to this form of madness. In a moment the fruits of patient toil, the prospects of material prosperity, the fear of death itself, are flung aside. The more emotional Pathans are powerless to resist. All rational considerations are forgotten. Seizing their weapons, they become Ghazis—as dangerous and as sensible as mad dogs: fit only to be treated as such. While the more generous spirits among the tribesmen become convulsed in an ecstasy of religious bloodthirstiness, poorer and more material souls derive additional impulses from the influence of others, the hopes of plunder and the joy of fighting. Thus whole nations are roused to arms. Thus the Turks repel their enemies, the Arabs of the Soudan break the British squares, and the rising on the Indian frontier spreads far and wide. In each case civilisation is confronted with militant Mahommedanism. The forces of progress clash with those of reaction. The religion of blood and war is face to face with that of peace.”
― Winston Churchill, The Story of the Malakand Field Force
tags: arabs, british, civilization, creeds, death, ecstasy, emotional, fear, fear-of-death, fighting, force, fury, generous, hope, indian, influence, intolerance, islam, joy, mad-dogs, madness, militant, mohammedan, muslim, peace, plunder, progress, prosperity, religious-bloodthirstiness, religious-violence, soudan, turks, weapons515 likes
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Stephen Jay Gould
“We pass through this world but once. Few tragedies can be more extensive than the stunting of life, few injustices deeper than the denial of an opportunity to strive or even to hope, by a limit imposed from without, but falsely identified as lying within.”
― Stephen Jay Gould, The Mismeasure of Man
tags: fear, hesitation, hope, life, tragedy485 likes
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Leigh Bardugo
“They fear you as I once feared you,” he said. “As you once feared me. We are all someone’s monster, Nina.”
― Leigh Bardugo, Six of Crows
tags: fear, matthias-helvar, monster, nina-zenik, understanding448 likes
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Nelson Mandela
“May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.”
― Nelson Mandela
tags: choices, fear, hope429 likes
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Susan Rowland
“Bring me Mother Julian’s Scroll within two weeks, or I’ll get that guttersnipe Leni prosecuted for attempted murder. She won’t survive long in prison.”
― Susan Rowland, The Alchemy Fire Murder
tags: action, adventure, danger, dramatic, fast-paced, fear, insight, trauma, unpredictable421 likes
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Neal Shusterman
“Hope in the shadow of fear is the world's most powerful motivator.”
― Neal Shusterman, Scythe
tags: fear, hope, motivation, powerful420 likes
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Brené Brown
“When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordinary. I see the fear of never feeling extraordinary enough to be noticed, to be lovable, to belong, or to cultivate a sense of purpose.”
― Brené Brown, Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
tags: fear, narcissism, self-worth, shame415 likes
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G.K. Chesterton
“We fear men so much, because we fear God so little. One fear cures another. When man's terror scares you, turn your thoughts to the wrath of God.”
― G.K. Chesterton
tags: fear, god408 likes
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Donald Miller
“Fear is a manipulative emotion that can trick us into living a boring life.”
― Donald Miller, A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life
tags: fear403 likes
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Rudyard Kipling
“Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.”
― Rudyard Kipling, The Collected Works
tags: fear, liars, self-deception403 likes
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Julian Barnes
“Women scheme when they are weak, they lie out of fear. Men scheme when they are strong, they lie out of arrogance.”
― Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
tags: arrogance, fear, men, women401 likes
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Tana French
“I had learned early to assume something dark and lethal hidden at the heart of anything I loved. When I couldn't find it, I responded, bewildered and wary, in the only way I knew how: by planting it there myself.”
― Tana French, In the Woods
tags: darkness, fear, heart397 likes
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Osamu Dazai
“He could only consider me as the living corpse of a would-be suicide, a person dead to shame, an idiot ghost.”
― Osamu Dazai, No Longer Human
tags: death, depression, fear, friendship, life, loneliness, mental-illness, social-anxiety, social-awkwardness, suicidal, suicide397 likes
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Toni Morrison
“What difference do it make if the thing you scared of is real or not?”
― Toni Morrison
tags: fear, inspiration395 likes
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Lemony Snicket
“Is it useful to feel fear, because it prepares you for nasty events, or is it useless, because nasty events will occur whether you are frightened or not?”
― Lemony Snicket
tags: fear394 likes
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Mandy Hale
“It’s OKAY to be scared. Being scared means you’re about to do something really, really brave.”
― Mandy Hale, The Single Woman–Life, Love, and a Dash of Sass: Embracing Singleness with Confidence
tags: anxiety, being-scared, believing-in-yourself, bravery, faith, fear, overcoming-fear, positive-thinking, scared, trust, worry394 likes
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Warren Buffett
“Be Fearful When Others Are Greedy and Greedy When Others Are Fearful”
― Warren Buffett
tags: fear, greed, investment-advice382 likes
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Frank Herbert
“Fear is the mind-killer.”
― Frank Herbert , Dune
tags: 1965, fear, litany, panic, serenity382 likes
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Will Smith
“Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity. Do not misunderstand me danger is very real but fear is a choice.”
― Will Smith
tags: after-earth, choice, fear379 likes
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François de La Rochefoucauld
“We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld
tags: fear, hope378 likes
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Leo Tolstoy
“He was afraid of defiling the love which filled his soul.”
― Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina
tags: anna-karenina, fear, levin, love365 likes
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Ray Bradbury
“Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all.”
― Ray Bradbury
tags: fear, social-anxiety365 likes
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Stephen King
“I tend to scare myself.”
― Stephen King
tags: fear360 likes
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Khaled Hosseini
“The problem, of course, was that [he] saw the world in black and white. And he got to decide what was black and what was white. You can't love a person who lives that way without fearing him too. Maybe even hating him a little.”
― Khaled Hosseini, The Kite Runner
tags: fear, life, love357 likes
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Do the thing you fear and the death of fear is certain.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
tags: fear354 likes
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George R.R. Martin
“A cold wind was blowing from the north, and it made the trees rustle like living things.”
― George R.R. Martin, A Game of Thrones
tags: a-game-of-thrones, a-song-of-ice-and-fire, coldness, fear, forest, george-r-r-martin, north, snow, the-wall, trees, wind, winter349 likes
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Epicurus
“Why should I fear death?
If I am, then death is not.
If Death is, then I am not.
Why should I fear that which can only exist when I do not?
Long time men lay oppressed with slavish fear.
Religious tyranny did domineer.
At length the mighty one of Greece
Began to assent the liberty of man.”
― Epicurus
tags: death, end, fear, greece, liberty, religious-tyranny347 likes
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Audre Lorde
“A Litany for Survival
For those of us who live at the shoreline
standing upon the constant edges of decision
crucial and alone
for those of us who cannot indulge
the passing dreams of choice
who love in doorways coming and going
in the hours between dawns
looking inward and outward
at once before and after
seeking a now that can breed
futures
like bread in our children's mouths
so their dreams will not reflect
the death of ours:
For those of us
who were imprinted with fear
like a faint line in the center of our foreheads
learning to be afraid with our mother's milk
for by this weapon
this illusion of some safety to be found
the heavy-footed hoped to silence us
For all of us
this instant and this triumph
We were never meant to survive.
And when the sun rises we are afraid
it might not remain
when the sun sets we are afraid
it might not rise in the morning
when our stomachs are full we are afraid
of indigestion
when our stomachs are empty we are afraid
we may never eat again
when we are loved we are afraid
love will vanish
when we are alone we are afraid
love will never return
and when we speak we are afraid
our words will not be heard
nor welcomed
but when we are silent
we are still afraid
So it is better to speak
remembering
we were never meant to survive.”
“When you are grateful, fear disappears and abundance appears.”
“Of course I’ll hurt you. Of course you’ll hurt me. Of course we will hurt each other. But this is the very condition of existence. To become spring, means accepting the risk of winter. To become presence, means accepting the risk of absence.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
“I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life. It is a clever, treacherous adversary, how well I know. It has no decency, respects no law or convention, shows no mercy. It goes for your weakest spot, which it finds with unnerving ease. It begins in your mind, always ... so you must fight hard to express it. You must fight hard to shine the light of words upon it. Because if you don't, if your fear becomes a wordless darkness that you avoid, perhaps even manage to forget, you open yourself to further attacks of fear because you never truly fought the opponent who defeated you.”
“Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.”
“People tend to be generous when sharing their nonsense, fear, and ignorance. And while they seem quite eager to feed you their negativity, please remember that sometimes the diet we need to be on is a spiritual and emotional one. Be cautious with what you feed your mind and soul. Fuel yourself with positivity and let that fuel propel you into positive action.”
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty.”
“Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don't wish you didn't fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn't feel anything.”
“When we think we have been hurt by someone in the past, we build up defenses to protect ourselves from being hurt in the future. So the fearful past causes a fearful future and the past and future become one. We cannot love when we feel fear.... When we release the fearful past and forgive everyone, we will experience total love and oneness with all.”
“But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as a means of escape.”
“I promise you nothing is as chaotic as it seems. Nothing is worth diminishing your health. Nothing is worth poisoning yourself into stress, anxiety, and fear.”
“There will always be someone willing to hurt you, put you down, gossip about you, belittle your accomplishments and judge your soul. It is a fact that we all must face. However, if you realize that God is a best friend that stands beside you when others cast stones you will never be afraid, never feel worthless and never feel alone.”
