Fear Quotes - Page 79

A man is not dependent upon his fellow creature, when he does not fear death.

I was trying to make them face their fears. Youth spends so much energy trying to forget them. There's the fear of failure in examinations, fear of sex, fear of not getting a job, fear of unpopularity, fear of appearing naïve. Youth discovers many bunkholes in which to hide when frightened. They are mostly unhealthy, none of them bombproof.

Fear is the main factor in Arab politics... There is no Arab who is not harmed by Jews' entry into Palestine.

There comes a time. The pain of existence transcends the fear of change. There comes a time.

You always have the memory of the bottom, and fear of the bottom. And when you start going to the bottom you panic.

It's about the choices you've just made, and the ones you're about to make; it's about the things you choose to say - today. It's about what you're gonna do after you finish reading this.

Michael: There's nothing here to fear. Lucifer: Well, there's always the truth.

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

The fear of not getting the reward becomes the fear of rejection. The fear of not being good enough... is what makes us try to change, what makes us create an image.

...find the courage to break those agreements that are fear-based and claim your personal power.

The thing in the world I am most afraid of is fear, and with good reason; that passion alone, in the trouble of it, exceeding all other accidents

It is an old psychological axiom that constant exposure to the object of fear immunizes against the fear.

[...]you don’t have to be Sun freakin Tzu to know that real fighting isn’t about killing or even hurting the other guy, it’s about scaring him enough to call it a day.

I am a God-fearing man. In fact, I don't go to church because I'm afraid I'll run into him there.

fear has always been a diminisher of life. Whether bred in the bogs of superstition or clothed in the brocades of dogma and ritual, the specter of death has reduced the living to supplicants, powerless.

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.

Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, and fabulous?

A thousand times today I've started to open my mouth, started to squeak out, "Can you tell me...? But then I'd look into the front seat, at my mother's silent shaking, my father's grim profile, the mournful bags under his eyes, and all the questions I might ask seemed abusive. Assault and battery, a question mark used like a club. My parents are old and fragile. I'd have to heartless to want to hurt them.

There are some women who seem to be born without fear, just as there are people who are born without the ability to feel pain. The painless ones go around putting their hands on hot stoves, freezing their feet to the point of gangrene, scalding the lining of their throats with boiling coffee, because there is no warning anguish. Evolution does not favour them. So too perhaps with the fearless women, because there aren't very many of them around. ... Providence appears to protect such women, maybe out of astonishment.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.

Deep in my heart I'm concealing things that I'm longing to say. Scared to confess what I'm feeling - frightened you'll slip away.

It's better to be loved than feared, but if you can't be loved, then fear will do.-Dino quoting Machiavelli

The ground of fearlessness is fear. In order to be fearless, you have to stand in the middle of your fear.