Fear Quotes - Page 82

From craving is born grief, from craving is born fear. For one freed from craving there's no grief- so how fear?

I grew up with Apocalypse Now and Badlands, so I had a real awe thing going.

The visions are fragmented and a dark cloud spreads like spilt ink across the pages of possible futures.

The timid and fearful cannot defend liberty -- or anything else.

God is the pain of the fear of death

I just admire everybody and sit in awe and watch them.

Ninety-two percent of the stuff told you in confidence you couldn't get anyone else to listen to.

For most men the love of justice is only the fear of suffering injustice.

If you desire to be magnanimous, undertake nothing rashly, and fear nothing thou undertakest; fear nothing but infamy; dare anything but injury; the measure of magnanimity is neither to be rash nor timorous.

Necessity of action takes away the fear of the act, and makes bold resolution the favorite of fortune.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

I've never suffered stage fright. That fascinates people.

Any device whatever by which one frees himself from the fear of others is a natural good.

We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.

Fear and Guilt are the only enemies of man.

One has a prejudice wherever one fears a transformation.

Fear in the biblical sense... includes being afraid of someone, but it extends to holding someone in awe, being controlled or mastered by people, worshipping other people, putting your trust in people, or needing people.

His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught.

Fear not a thousand accusing fingers, if you are right.

Fear arises through identification with form, whether it be a material possession, a physical body, a social role, a self-image, a thought, or an emotion. It arises through unawareness of the formless inner dimension of consciousness or spirit, which is the essence of who you are. You are trapped in object consciousness, unaware of the dimension of inner space which alone is true freedom.

Internal and external are ultimately one. When you no longer perceive the world as hostile, there is no more fear, and when there is no more fear, you think, speak and act differently. Love and compassion arise, and they affect the world.

Let the end of the world be inside you, then you don't need to fear the end of the world out there.

We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.

It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear.

If you look at life as a whole, we have to admit life's good where we live. But in an evil Twilight Zone kind of way there's nothing else to choose. In the old days there was always a Bohemia or a creative under-world to join if the mainstream life wasn't your bag - or a life of crime, or even religion.And now there's only the system. All other options have evaporated. For most people it's the System or what... death? There's nothing. There's no way out now.