Fear Quotes - Page 25

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

I don't think that there is anything that is really magical unless it has a terrifying quality.

The conversation of kisses. Subtle, engrossing, fearless, transforming.

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

Black boys became criminalized. I was in constant dread for their lives, because they were targets everywhere. They still are.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

And I can see that everything about this God has been purposely designed to poison our experience of life on earth, not to enhance it, to keep us fearful, to suppress knowledge, to curtail freedom and creativity, and to celebrate death. It's nothing less than the sanctified dumbing-down of the human race. And demanding respect for it is frankly an insult that deserves to be repaid with considerable interest.

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me.

The strongest human emotion is fear. It's the essence of any good thriller that, for a little while, you believe in the boogeyman.

A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.

It's not that we fear the place of darkness, but that we don't think we are worth the effort to find the place of light.

Hate is an automatic response to fear, for fear humiliates.

It’s OK to get butterfly in your stomach; the key is to learn how to make them fly in formation.

He who makes a beast out of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man.

There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it like a wild stallion.

Faith is to fear nothing, to stand unswayed, the power to surmount any obstacle.

The Quality of Love or Fear you Carry into each Moment determines which Road you Travel.

Crystals grew inside rock like arithmetic flowers. They lengthened and spread, added plane to plane in an awed and perfect obedience to an absolute geometry that even stones - maybe only the stones - understood.

A politician is not allowed to get too emotional in public, so what he does is drop subtle hints that, over time, cause the public to get emotional. Once the same emotions are generated by enough people, the politician can use it to steer the public in his desired direction. Fear is an emotion that is often used this way. A smart politician knows that if he can create fear in enough people, those people will give up what they truly want in order to give the politician what he says they need.

I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish church, by the Roman church, by the Greek church, by the Turkish church, by the Protestant church, nor by any church that I know of. My own mind is my own church.

The moment you start seeing life as non-serious, a playfulness, all the burden on your heart disappears. All the fear of death, of life, of love - everything disappears.

Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

Life can take so many twists and turns. You can’t ever count yourself out. Even if you’re really afraid at some point, you can’t think that there’s no room for you to grow and do something good with your life.

Fear is the passion of slaves.