I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
Isaac AsimovFear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
Umberto EcoThey hate whom they fear
Quintus EnniusI am really driven, but my drive doesn't effect the conversations I have in my head about life, and my worries and fears and insecurities.
Zach BraffWhen I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.
John KeatsMy worst fears were confirmed as Thierry and I sat in the centre circle after the final whistle. His name was sung from the rooftops, while my contribution was recognised by a deafening silence. It was like I was the invisible man
Ashley ColeIt was my 13th birthday and I have treasured it ever since [Peggy Sue].
It is the greatest single ever made. I still have it, but rarely play it for fear of damaging it.
John GribbinFear is static that prevents me from hearing myself.
Samuel ButlerTyger Tyger, burning bright,
In the forests of the night;
What immortal hand or eye,
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?
William BlakeThey hate whom they fear
EnniusNow, there is always a tremendous fear of science and progressing forward into areas of the unknown and it is a valid fear. Some of the genetic alterations of food are a little edgy
Nick NolteTo be happy, the passions must be cheerful and gay, not gloomy and melancholy. A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow, real poverty
David HumeEvery time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
Arthur AsheDo not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Bertrand RussellI know I can handle anything and I don't have a lot of fear.
Antonio FargasAn anthill increases by accumulation. Medicine is consumed by distribution. That which is feared lessens by association. This is the thing to understand.
OvidAn oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.
ConfuciusI have a bad time between jobs because I'm always convinced I'll never work again. I think it may be an English thing, this fear of unemployment.
Tim RothWhenever a taboo is broken, something good happens, something vitalizing. Taboos after all are only hangovers, the product of diseased minds, you might say, of fearsome people who hadn't the courage to live and who under the guise of morality and religion have imposed these things upon us.
Henry MillerI don't know. People always think that there has got to be a dark side to everyone, a closet with skeletons, demons under the bed. People think all kinds of things about one another. They feel compelled to make up fears and false assumptions about their closest friends. Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.
Tom HanksPuritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
Henry L MenckenA fear of the unknown keeps a lot of people from leaving bad situations.
Kathie GiffordThinking will not overcome fear but action will.
W Clement StoneThe fear of suffering is worse than suffering itself. And no heart ever suffered when it went in search of its dreams.
Paulo Coelho'Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger.
Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to suffering.'
YodaI suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print.
John MortimerBetween the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives.
Ivo AndricHe doesn't know the meaning of the word fear, but then again he doesn't know the meaning of most words.
Bobby BowdenThe optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true
James Branch CabellJust remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.
Gillian AndersonThe only way to get rid of my fears is to make films about them.
Alfred HitchcockIt is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.
Maxwell MaltzApprehension, uncertainty, waiting, expectation, fear of surprise, do a patient more harm than any exertion
Florence NightingaleThere is nothing that man fears more than the touch of the unknown. He wants to see what is reaching towards him, and to be able to recognize or at least classify it. Man always tends to avoid physical contact with anything strange.
Elias CanettiThe headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us.
Cyril ConnollyFear sometimes adds wings to the heels, and sometimes nails them to the ground, and fetters them from moving
MontaigneCourage is one step ahead of fear
Coleman YoungAs the mind of each man is conscious of good or evil, so does he conceive within his breast hope or fear, according to his actions
OvidTo me death is not a fearful thing. It's living that's cursed [very cheerful!]
Jim JonesIf you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.
Cesare PaveseCourage is fear that has said its prayers.
Dorothy BernardA man feared that he might find an assassin; Another that he might find a victim. One was wiser than the other.
Stephan CraneSacred religion! Mother of Form and Fear!
Samuel DanielA tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side
AristotleFear and hope are alike underneath. [In that they are both emotions]
Richard FordConfront your fears, list them, get to know them, and only then will you be able to put them aside and move ahead.
Jerry GilliesDespotic conscience rules our hopes and fears
OvidHave no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Salvador DaliIt's time to give the yobs a dose of the fear they have been dishing out to the rest of us.
Michael HowardHealthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death.
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