FEAR QUOTES III

quotations about fear

Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering.

YODA

Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace


That's all it takes, one drop of fear to curdle love into hate.

JAMES M. CAIN

Double Indemnity


I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

T.S. ELIOT

The Waste Land


Fear is a quicksand that slows and grips and strangles, leaving its victims unable to act, too timid to do what life requires.

BOB LONSBERRY

A Various Language


How sweet the name of Jesus sounds
In a believer's ear!
It soothes his sorrows, heals his wounds,
And drives away his fear.

JOHN NEWTON

Olney Hymns


Fear has many eyes and can see things underground.

MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Don Quixote


Fearlessness requires attention and receptivity--it takes focus to stand in the still eye of a tornado and not be swept away by it.

SUSAN PIVER

O Magazine, Apr. 2007


Sometimes fear is a warning. It's like someone putting a hand on your shoulder and saying Go No Farther.

ANNE RICE

Memnoch the Devil


It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.

AUNG SAN SUU KYI

Freedom from Fear


Fear is a destructive emotion that can deal a fatal blow to any attempt on your part to build total self-confidence. If you allow your fears to run your life, it will be impossible to create the life you truly desire.

ROBERT ANTHONY

The Ultimate Secrets of Total Self-Confidence


Living fearlessly is not the same thing as never being afraid. It's good to be afraid occasionally. Fear is a great teacher.

MICHAEL IGNATIEFF

O Magazine, Apr. 2007


The only real prison is fear, and the only real freedom is freedom from fear.

AUNG SAN SUU KYI

attributed, Instinct for Freedom: Finding Liberation Through Living


Fear is the parent of cruelty.

JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE

Short Studies on Great Subjects


Like other sets of habits, emotions had to be learned. So, fear was not an instinctive reaction to phylogenetically predetermined objects or events, but was a learned response occurring on 'signals' or conditioned stimuli.... Consequently it came as no surprise ... that children shared their mother's fears. This shared community of fear within the family was not due to inheritance of psychic mechanisms: it was learned. After all, the behaviourists pointed out, there was no direct relationship between fear and vulnerability. Indeed, the most defenceless of all human beings (the new-born child) was the least fearful of all God's creatures.

JOANNA BOURKE

Fear: A Cultural History


When a man is afraid and accedes to fear, he will always find arguments to justify his own surrender.

NATAN SHARANSKY

Fear No Evil


I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others.

ERNEST HEMINGWAY

True at First Light


I have no remedy for fear; there grows
No herb of help to heal a coward heart.

ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE

Bothwell


There is always a cause for fear. The cause may change over time, but the fear is always with us.

MICHAEL CRICHTON

State of Fear


In my opinion the hectic and almost frantic pace of modern living is a clear sign of the fear we have of being and of life. And as long as this fear exists in a person's unconscious, he will run faster and do more so as not to feel his fear.

ALEXANDER LOWEN

Fear of Life


Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are not afraid of anything.

CARLOS RUIZ ZAFON

The Angel's Game