Explore Quotes on Fear

I'm not crazy about reality, but it's still the only place to get a decent meal.

All gods who receive homage are cruel. All gods dispense suffering without reason. Otherwise they would not be worshipped. Through indiscriminate suffering men know fear and fear is the most divine emotion. It is the stones for altars and the beginning of wisdom. Half gods are worshipped in wine and flowers. Real gods require blood.

Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it.

I'd have a nervous breakdown except that I've been through this too many times to be nervous.

Fear is the original sin. Almost all of the evil in the world has its origin in the fact that some one is afraid of something.It is a cold slimy serpent coiling about you. It is horrible to live with fear; and it is of all things degrading.

Its not bragging if its true.

Fear makes idiots out of us all, at some time or other.

If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry.

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

He who kneels the most, stands the best.

Fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.

Afraid? I can dodge folly without backing into fear.

Most hatred is based on fear, one way or another. Yeah. I wrapped myself in anger, with a dash of hate, and at the bottom of it all was an icy center of pure terror.

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.

Who knows whether, if I had given up smoking, I should really have become the strong perfect man I imagined? Perhaps it was this very doubt that bound me to my vice, because life is so much pleasanter if one is able to believe in one's own latent greatness

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

The ordinary man with extraordinary power is the chief danger for mankind - not the fiend or the sadist.

I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law.

Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.