Top 1200 Deepest Fear Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

My biggest fear in life is fear.

Hope knows not if fear speaks truth, nor fear whether hope be blind as she.

If you give way to fear, you'll be a coward; and ... a coward is apt to be a liar. The devil's first name is Fear.

The fear that all this will end. The fear that it won't.

Overcoming fear doesn't have to be skydiving, if you're afraid of heights. Overcoming fear is an everyday thing. We do it all day long.

We do not fear the loss of God's favor, for either we have it not. We cannot lose it. What we fear is the loss of our idols.

If you have to fear something, fear mediocrity.

Fear not that thy life shall come to an end, but rather fear that it shall never have a beginning.

As a young man, I yearned for the day when, rooted in the experience that comes only with age, I could do my work fearlessly. But today, in my mid-sixties, I realize that I will feel fear from time to time for the rest of my life. I may never get rid of my fear. But . . . I can learn to walk into it and through it whenever it rises up . . . naming the inner force that triggers . . . fear . . . Naming our fears aloud . . . is the first step toward transcending them.

I think present-day reason is an analogue of the flat earth of the medieval period. If you go too far beyond it you're presumed to fall off, into insanity. And people are very much afraid of that. I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world. Or the fear of heretics. There's a very close analogue there.

Fear is for the enemy. Fear and bullets.

What fear has once made me will, I am bound still to will when without fear.

I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

Internet freedom is not possible without freedom from fear, and users will not be free from fear unless they are sufficiently protected from online theft and attack.

I remember looking at the sky and thinking that the universe is so big and it's all chaos. I call it 'the dark fear.' At any moment, the dark fear could come in.

Do not fear mistakes - fear only the absence of creative, constructive, and corrective responses to those mistakes.

Fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all.

To fear retirement is to fear life.

Fear, true fear, is a savage frenzy. Of all the insanities of which we are capable, it is surely the cruelest. There is naught to equal its drive, and naught can survive its thrust.

Governments sometimes turn paranoid. And they fear things. And sometimes the thing they fear the most is the populace.

I don't have a fear of flying; I have a fear of crashing.

More than fear of loving bears or birds bigger than cows, I fear pathless nights. How, I wonder, can I find you in the dark?

I must have no fear of failure. It was my fear of failure that first kept me from attempting the Master Work.

There's a fine line between playing with fear and then taking bad plays and playing with no fear.

But when the dawn will come, of our emancipation, from the fear of bondage and the bondage of fear, why, that is a secret.

We don't want to be free from fear. All that we want to do is to play games with it and talk about freeing ourselves from fear.

To fear love is to fear life.

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.

The true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.

The fear of failing... not quite the fear of failing, but the uncertainty of whether you are going to perform or not, is there every single game I have played in my life. It will always be there.

I was the kind of child who always poked around wherever there was fear: to see what kind of a creature fear was.

There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.

Every fear is fear of death.

The understanding of fear cures fear.

Running away from fear is fear; fighting pain is pain; trying to be brave is being scared

We fear our enemy but the bigger and real fear is that of a fake friend who is sweetest to your face and most vile behind your back.

Don't fear conflict, fear the silence.

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

Have others fear you, and I will have no fear.

I, like everybody else, have a certain fear of heights, and I have to be very careful when I am in the clouds, but it is also what I love; it is my domain, so when you love something, you don't have fear.

I think we are intrinsically prone to being irrational and superstitious. A lot of it comes from our fear of the unknown and the fear of a lack of control over our fate.

I understand this fear of the word 'feminism,' and I understand the fear of saying it because it becomes as divisive as 'sexism' has become. But I know a lot of male feminists.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

But sorrow is better than fear. For fear impoverishes always, while sorrow may enrich.

You can't play with fear in football. There is a lot of respect - you have respect for everybody, the ones on top and the bottom - but never fear.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Do what you fear most and you control fear.

But I get frightened sometimes," she admitted."I know. Fear is only fear, though.""And somehow you live without it.""No," he corrected her. "You live with it.

People are taught to fear god. They are taught to fear everything. It has become such a natural state that no one questions it.

The premonition of madness is complicated by the fear of lucidity in madness, the fear of the moments of return and reunion... One would welcome chaos if one were not afraid of lights in it.

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

You have to do what you fear, otherwise fear is in charge.

I know the bottom, she says. I know it with my great tap root: It is what you fear. I do not fear it: I have been there.

Courage is not the absence of fear but rather the judgement that something is more important than fear; The brave may not live forever but the cautious do not live at all.

Putting up with the fear of being with the wrong person because you can't deal with the fear of being alone.

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.

At the heart of the matter is a battle between wish and fear. Fear generally proves stronger than a wish, but it leaves a taste of disappointment on the tongue.

Rich people are wiling to act in spite of fear. Poor people let fear stop them.

The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear? Yes. My Imagination. I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself." Then you have a small imagination.