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| Bättre rädd än blind för mina rädslor. | Clichés |
| Det är bättre att vara fruktad än älskad, om du inte kan vara båda. | Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527) |
| Gör det du fruktar mest och rädslan kommer oundvikligen att dö. | Mark Twain (1835-1910) |
| Han förstår inte innebörden av ordet rädsla, men så förstår han ju heller inte innebörden av de flesta ord. | Bobby Bowden (1929-) |
| Hat är konsekvensen av rädsla; vi fruktar något innan vi hatar det; ett barn som är rädd för oljud växer upp till en person som hatar oljud. | Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) |
| Jag har utvecklat en ny filosofi... Jag räds bara en dag i taget. | Charlie Brown |
| Jag tror att jag är rädd för att vara glad. Lucy: Hur kan du vara rädd för att vara glad? Charlie Brown: För att när du blir för glad, händer alltid något dåligt. | Charlie Brown |
| Jag vet vad jag flyr ifrån, men inte vad det är jag söker. | Michel de Montaigne (1533-1592) |
| Jag är aldrig rädd för det jag känner till. | Anna Sewell (1820-1878) |
| Låt oss aldrig förhandla av rädsla. Men låt oss aldrig vara rädda för att förhandla. | John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) |
| Många av våra rädslor är papperstunna, och ett enda modigt steg skulle föra oss genom dem. | Brendan Francis |
| Rädsla leder till den mörka sidan. Rädsla leder till ilska. Ilska leder till hat. Hat leder till lidande. | Yoda |
| Rädsla är grunden i de flesta stater. | John Adams (1735-1826) |
| Rädsla är moraliserandets moder. | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Rädsla är är den största orsaken till vidskepelse, och en av de största orsakerna till grymhet. Att besegra rädslan är början till visdom. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Varje gång du vinner, tar det bort en bit av rädslan. Du förlorar aldrig rädslan för att förlora; du fortsätter att utmana den. | Arthur Ashe (1943-1993) |
| Vår rädsla överträffar alltid faran. | Latin Proverb |
| I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time. | Charles M. Schulz (1922-2000) |
| Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night'. | Charlie Brown |
| No guts, no glory. | Clichés |
| There is nothing to fear but fear itself | Clichés |
| Less base the fear of death than fear of life. | Edward Young (1683-1765) |
| Dolendi modus, timendi non item. Suffering there is a limit; to fearing, none. | Francis Bacon (1909-1992) |
| The only thing we have to fear is fear itself - nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance. | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| My fear . . . is my substance, and probably the best part of me. | Franz Kafka (1883-1924) |
| Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts... perhaps the fear of a loss of power. | John Steinbeck (1902-1968) |
| If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right. | Jules Renard (1864-1910) |
| As a rule, what is out of sight disturbs men's minds more seriously than what they see. | Julius Caesar (102 f.Kr.-44 f.Kr.) |
| I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. | Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) |
| Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman. | Marian Anderson (1902-1993) |
| Neither fear, nor wish for, your last day. | Marcus Valerius Martialus (40-102) |
| Who is all powerful should fear everything. | Pierre Corneille (1606-1684) |
| If you fear God, you won't fear humans. | Proverbs, Albania |
| One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool. | Proverbs, Israel |
| Always do what you are afraid to do. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| In skating over thin ice our safety is in our speed. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear. | Zora Neale Hurston (1903-1960) |
| There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls. There is advantage in the wisdom won from pain. | Aeschylus (525 f.Kr.-456 f.Kr.) |
| I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating. | Alan Paton (1903-1988) |
| Fear is, I believe, a most effective tool in destroying the soul of an individual - and the soul of a people | Anwar el-Sadat |
| If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars | Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) |
| The only thing I am afraid of is fear | Duke Arthur Wellesley (1769-1852) |
| When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid | Audre Lorde (1934-1992) |
| If fear alters behavior, you're already defeated. | Brenda Hammond |
| Fear created the first gods in the world | Caecilius Statius |
| Fearful as reality is, it is less fearful than evasions of reality. Look steadfastly into the slit, pinpointed malignant eyes of reality as an old-hand trainer dominates his wild beasts. | Caitlin Thomas |
| Do what you fear and fear disappears. | David Joseph Schwartz |
| Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated; you can't cross a chasm in two small jumps. | David Lloyd George (1863-1945) |
| It appears that my worst fears have been realized: we have made progress in everything yet nothing has changed | Derrick Bell |
| One ought to seek out virtue for its own sake, without being influenced by fear or hope, or by any external influence. Moreover, that in that does happiness consist. | Diogenes |
| Fear can be headier than whiskey, once man has acquired a taste for it. | Donald Dowes |
| There are four ways you can handle fear. You can go over it, under it, or around it. But if you are ever to put fear behind you, you must walk straight through it. Once you put fear behind you, leave it there. | Donna A. Favors |
| Fear drives you and makes you better | Donna Shalala |
| Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. | Dorothy Thompson (1894-1961) |
| We fear the thing we want the most. | Dr. Robert Anthony |
| Fear is the highest fence. | Dudley Nichols (1895-) |
| There was an old man with a beard, Who said: 'It is just as I feared! Two owls and a hen, Four larks and a wren Have all built their nests in my beard | Edward Lear (1812-1888) |
| Healthy children will not fear life if their elders have integrity enough not to fear death. | Erik Erikson, Dr. |
| The mark of fear is not easily removed. | Ernest Gaines |
| There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by | Eva Figes |
| My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten. | Evita Peron (1919-1952) |
| Let the fear of danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger | Francis Quarles (1592-1644) |
| There is nothing to fear but fear itself. | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future | Fulton Oursler (1893-) |
| They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear. | G. Gordon Liddy (1930-) |
| Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. | George Washington Carver (1864-1943) |
| I am convinced that it is not the fear of death, of our lives ending that haunts our sleep so much as the fear... that as far as the world is concerned, we might as well never have lived. | Harold Kushner |
| Fear is the parent of cruelty. | James Anthony Froude (1818-1894) |
| Fear is the needle that pierces us that it may carry a thread to bind us to heaven. | James Hastings |
| A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. | Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825) |
| Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles. | Jean Toomer |
| If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. | Jimmy Carter (1924-2002) |
| There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear. | Joanna Field |
| I suppose that writers should, in a way, feel flattered by the censorship laws. They show a primitive fear and dread at the fearful magic of print. | John Mortimer |
| Even when we do not create children's fears, when they come to us with fears ready-made and built-in, we use their fears as handles to manipulate them and get them to do what we want | John W. Holt, Jr. |
| Let them hate, so long as they fear. | Lucius Accius Telephus |
| It's so much fun playing her [Ling], but I have this fear that people are going to run away from me in terror on the streets. They think I'm going to bite their heads off or something. | Lucy Liu (1968-) |
| Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. | Marianne Williamson (1952-) |
| Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman. | Marian Anderson (1902-1993) |
| Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. | Mme Marie Curie (1867-1934) |
| Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom. | Marilyn Ferguson |
| Fear is a question: What are you afraid of and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them | Marilyn Ferguson |
| When we are afraid we ought not to occupy ourselves with endeavoring to prove that there is no danger, but in strengthening ourselves to go on in spite of the danger. | Mark Rutherford (1831-) |
| Who is more foolish, the child afraid of the dark or the man afraid of the light? | Maurice Freehill |
| Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life. | Merle Shain |
| Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed. | Michael Pritchard |
| Fear is your best friend or your worst enemy. It's like fire. If you can control it, it can cook for you; it can heat your house. If you can't control it, it will burn everything around you and destroy you. If you can control your fear, it makes you more alert, like a deer coming across the lawn. | Mike Tyson (1966-) |
| The fear of poetry is an indication that we are cut off from our own reality | Muriel Rukeyser (1913-1980) |
| Political history is largely an account of mass violence and of the expenditure of vast resources to cope with mythical fears and hopes | Murray Edelman |
| And as I looked up, I was gazing on a hill, and in my spine I felt an icy, icy chill. And as I looked upon him, my heart was filled with fear. I was looking at a man sporting a funny crown, three nails, and a spear. | Nate Ramer |
| FEAR is an acronym in the English language for "False Evidence Appearing Real" | Neale Donald Walsch |
| I'm just one of those people that if I sit down to watch a horror film, I put my hands over my face and I cry a lot and I don't see half of the film because I'm too upset. | Neve Campbell (1973-) |
| I expect nothing. I fear no one. I am free. | Nikos Kazantzakis (1885-1957) |
| People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams. | Norman Cousins (1912-1990) |
| Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from. | Peter McWilliams (1949-) |
| It's very healthy for a young girl to be deterred from promiscuity by fear of contracting a painful, incurable disease, or cervical cancer, or sterility, or the likelihood of giving birth to a dead, blind, or brain-damage (sic) baby even ten years la | Phyllis Schlafly (1924-) |
| Every noble acquisition is attended with its risks; he who fears to encounter the one must not expect to obtain the other | Pietro Metastasio (1698-1782) |
| The people who fear humor - and there are many -are suspicious of its power to present things in unexpected lights to question received opinions and to suggest unforeseen possibilities | Robertson Davies (1913-1995) |
| Fear is excitement without breath. | Robert Heller (1919-) |
| Fear has a large shadow, but he himself is small. | Ruth Gendler |
| I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got. | Sabrina Ward Harrison |
| Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. | Shirley MacLaine (1934-) |
| The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. | Shirley MacLaine (1934-) |
| Fear is a slinking cat I find beneath the lilacs of my mind. | Sophie Tunnell |
| You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing. | Steve Ross |
| Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life. | Warren E. Burger (1907-) |
| Excessive fear is always powerless | Aeschylus (525 f.Kr.-456 f.Kr.) |
| The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be. | Anne Frank (1929-1945) |
| When I saw you, I was afraid to meet you... When I met you, I was afraid to kiss you... When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you... Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you. | Anthony J. D'Angelo |
| Don't fear change, embrace it. | Anthony J. D'Angelo |
| Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. | Arnold H. Glasgow |
| Many of our fears are tissuepaper-thin, and a single courageous step would carry us through them. | Brendan Francis |
| Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live | Charles Caleb Colton (1780-1832) |
| We fear things in proportion to our ignorance of them. | Christian Nevell Bovee |
| The dread of loneliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married. | Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) |
| The greater the fear the nearer the danger | Danish Proverb |
| All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears - of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, or speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words "Some Assembly Required | Dave Barry (1947-) |
| You fear that if you lower your guard for even one second your whole world will disintegrate into chaos | Douglas Coupland |
| Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid. | Earl Nightingale |
| Let any man show the world that he feels Afraid of its bark and 't will fly at his heels: Let him fearlessly face it, 't will leave him alone: But 't will fawn at his feet if he flings it a bone | Edward Robert Bulwer-Lytton |
| I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them. | Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011) |
| We may have lost the fear of the bomb in this post cold-war era, but many have not lost the fear of what the future will hold. As someone said to me recently, 'The future isn't what it used to be.' | Eva Burrows |
| The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. | Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882-1945) |
| Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to a nation. | Frank Sinatra (1915-1998) |
| One of the things which danger does to you after a time is -, well, to kill emotion. I don't think I shall ever feel anything again except fear. None of us can hate anymore - or love. | Graham Greene (1904-1991) |
| If I die a violent death, as some fear and a few are plotting, I know that the violence will be in the thought and the action of the assassins, not in my dying. | Indira Gandhi (1917-1984) |
| Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire. | Jean de La Fontaine (1621-1695) |
| Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. | Louis D. Brandeis (1856-1941) |
| Fear was the first thing on earth to make gods | Lucretius |
| The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| I have this phobia: I don't like mirrors. And I don't watch myself on television. If anything comes on, I make them shut it off, or I leave the room. | Pamela Anderson (1967-) |
| Fear not for the future, weep not for the past | Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) |
| He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Fear always springs from ignorance | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| There is nothing with which every man is so afraid as getting to know how enormously much he is capable of doing and becoming. | Søren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) |
| When life demands more of people than they demand of life - as is ordinarily the case - what results is a resentment of life almost as deep-seated as the fear of death | Tom Robbins (1936-) |
| Fear is proof of a degenerate mind. | Virgil (70 f.Kr.-19 f.Kr.) |
| When I saw you, I was afraid to meet you... When I met you, I was afraid to kiss you... When I kissed you, I was afraid to love you... Now that I love you, I'm afraid to lose you. | Donna A. Favors |
| There are four ways you can handle fear. You can go over it, under it, or around it. But if you are ever to put fear behind you, you must walk straight through it. Once you put fear behind you, leave it there. | Donna A. Favors |
| We fear the thing we want the most. | Dr. Robert Anthony |
| Ultimately we know deeply that the other side of every fear is freedom. | Marilyn Ferguson |
| Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. | Marianne Williamson (1952-) |
| You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith. | Mary Manin Morrissey |
| Fear is faith that it won't work out. | Sabrina Ward Harrison |
| I am afraid to show you who I really am, because if I show you who I really am, you might not like it--and that's all I got. | Sabrina Ward Harrison |
| FEAR is an acronym in the English language for "False Evidence Appearing Real" | Neale Donald Walsch |
| To be a star, you must shine your own light, follow your own path, and don't worry about the darkness, for that is when the stars shine brightest | Merle Shain |
| Loving can cost a lot but not loving always costs more, and those who fear to love often find that want of love is an emptiness that robs the joy from life. | Merle Shain |
| He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. | Mme Marie Curie (1867-1934) |
| Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Fear always springs from ignorance | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop. | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Do the thing you fear, and the death of fear is certain | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know | Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) |
| Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow. | Alan Paton (1903-1988) |
| I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they are turned to loving, they will find we are turned to hating | Alan Paton (1903-1988) |
| I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm. | Alfred Hitchcock (1899-1980) |
| I am never afraid of what I know. | Anna Sewell (1820-1878) |
| Fear can make a donkey attack a lion | Arab Proverb |
| Fear those who are afraid of you | Arab Proverb |
| When I dare to be powerful - to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid | Audre Lorde (1934-1992) |
| 'Twas only fear first in the world made gods. | Ben Jonson (1572-1637) |
| He'll cheat without scruple, who can without fear | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Fear to do ill, and you need fear else. | Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790) |
| Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. | Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) |
| The thing I greatly feared has come upon me, and what I dreaded has happened to me | Bible |
| The fear of the LORD is a fountain of life, to depart from the snares of death (Proverbs 14:27). | Bible |
| But when he (Peter) saw the wind, he was afraid and, beginning to sink, cried out, "Lord, save me!" Immediately Jesus reached out his hand and caught him | Bible |
| Have no fear of sudden disaster or of the ruin that overtakes the wicked, for the LORD will be your confidence and will keep your foot from being snared. | Bible |
| Then a dog began to howl somewhere in a farming house far down the road - a long, agonized wailing,as if from fear... Then, far off in the distance, from the mountains on each side of us began a louderand a sharper howling - that of wolves - which affected both horses and myself in the same way -for I was minded to jump from the caleche and run, whilst they reared again and plunged madly, so that the driver had to use all his great strength to keep them from bolting. | Bram Stoker (1847-) |
| In doubt, fear is the worst of prophets. | Caecilius Statius |
| Good men have the fewest fears. He has but one great fear who fears to do wrong; he has a thousand who has overcome it. | Christian Nevell Bovee |
| Here is a list of fearful things:The jaws of sharks, a vulture's wings,The rabid bite of the dog's of war,The voice of one who went before.But most of all the mirror's gaze,which counts us out our numbered days. | Clive Barker (1952-) |
| The headmistress was an able instructress in French and history and we learned with her as fast as fear could teach us. | Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) |
| Men! The only animal in the world to fear. | D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930) |
| What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because it promises to be spontaneous, out of control, unnamed, beyond my reasonable self. I desire it because passion has color, like the landscape before me. It is not pale. It is not neutral. It reveals the backside of the heart. | Derrick Jensen |
| There are four ways you can handle fear. You can go over it, under it, or around it. But if you are ever to put fear behind you, you must walk straight through it. Once you put fear behind you, leave it there. | Donna A. Favors |
| Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live. | Dorothy Thompson (1894-1961) |
| We fear the thing we want the most. | Dr. Robert Anthony |
| Early and provident fear is the mother of safety | Edmund Burke (1729-1797) |
| Without fear and illness, I could never have accomplished all I have. | Edvard Munch (1863-1944) |
| The thing we fear we bring to pass. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority. | Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) |
| Change means the unknown. | Eleanor Roosevelt (1884-1962) |
| If you're scared, buy a big dog and tie it around your waist. | Erik Ainge |
| Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth. | Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) |
| There is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by | Eva Figes |
| I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are. | Frances Moore Lappe |
| Nothing is terrible except fear itself. | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| A just fear of an imminent danger, though there be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war | Francis Bacon, Sr. (1561-1626) |
| Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something. | Frederick Smith |
| Fear is the mother of morality | Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (1844-1900) |
| Nothing is so much to be feared as fear | Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) |
| The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear - fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety. | Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) |
| Fear is a fine spur | Irish Sayings |
| Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all-time low over the world | Isaac Asimov (1920-1992) |
| Of two cowards, the one who finds the other out first has the advantage | Italian Proverb |
| Fear is the parent of cruelty. | James Anthony Froude (1818-1894) |
| Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. | James Arthur Baldwin (1924-1987) |
| Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. | James Thurber (1894-1961) |
| A timid person is frightened before a danger, a coward during the time, and a courageous person afterwards. | Jean Paul Richter (1763-1825) |
| According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy. | Jerry Seinfeld (1954-) |
| The constant assertion of belief is an indication of fear | Jiddu Krishnamurti (1895-1986) |
| There seemed to be endless obstacles... it seemed that the root cause of them all was fear. | Joanna Field |
| To tremble before anticipated evils is to bemoan what thou hast never lost. | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) |
| When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain | John Keats (1795-1821) |
| Loneliness is about the scariest thing out there. | Joss Whedon (1964-) |
| Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood. | Kahlil Gibran (1883-1931) |
| Do you want to know the surefire way to stay anxious? Don’t do the thing that makes you nervous! | Larina Kase |
| A lot of people are afraid to say what they want. That's why they don't get what they want. | Madonna (1958-) |
| Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty. | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague. | Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 f.Kr.-43 f.Kr.) |
| Fear is sharp-sighted and can see things under ground and much more in the skies. | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) |
| Fears are nothing more than a state of mind | Napoleon Hill (1883-1970) |
| Desire can attain the darkest human terror and give an actual ideal of hell and its horror. | Octave Mirbeau (1850-) |
| To use fear as the friend it is, we must retrain and reprogram ourselves...We must persistently and convincingly tell ourselves that the fear is here--with its gift of energy and heightened awareness--so we can do our best and learn the most in the new situation. | Peter McWilliams (1949-) |
| To overcome a fear, here's all you have to do: realize the fear is there, and do the action you fear anyway. | Peter McWilliams (1949-) |
| Fear is something to be moved through, not something to be turned from. | Peter McWilliams (1949-) |
| Beggars fear no rebellion | Proverb |
| Fear may force a man to cast beyond the moon | Proverb |
| Even the bravest men are frightened by sudden terrors. | Publius Cornelius Tacitus (55-117) |
| Those who own much have much to fear | Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) |
| Do what you are afraid to do | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Fear is the instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Fear not, then, thou child infirm; There's no god dare wrong a worm | Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) |
| Face what you fear most and conquer fear. | Rob McBride |
| Face your fears and doubts, and new worlds will open to you. | Robert Kiyosaki (1947-) |
| Human beings are born with just two basic fears. One is the fear of loud noises. The other is the fear of falling. All other fears must be learned. | Ronald Rood |
| Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. | Samuel Butler (1835-1902) |
| No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life | Samuel Goldwyn (1882-1974) |
| Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize in the imagination, to raise phantoms of horror, or to beset life with supernumerary distresses. | Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) |
| Fear drives the wretched to prayer | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| We are more often frightened than hurt: our troubles spring more often from fancy than reality | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| Where fear is, happiness is not. | Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 f.Kr.-65) |
| Doing all the little tricky things it takes to grow up, step by step, into an anxious and unsettling world. | Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) |
| I will show you fear in a handful of dust. | T.S. Eliot (1888-1965) |
| The future is called 'perhaps,' which is the only possible thing to call the future. And the important thing is not to allow that to scare you. | Tennessee Williams (1911-1983) |
| The man who fears no truth has nothing to fear from lies. | Thomas Jefferson (1762-1826) |
| We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of men and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us. | Thomas Merton (1915-1968) |
| Fear is proof of a low born soul. | Virgil (70 f.Kr.-19 f.Kr.) |
| Crime and the fear of crime have permeated the fabric of American life. | Warren E. Burger (1907-) |
| My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me. | Washington Irving (1783-1859) |
| Fear comes from uncertainty. When we are absolutely certain, whether of our worth or worthlessness, we are almost impervious to fear. | William Congreve (1670-1729) |
| We have to start teaching ourselves not to be afraid | William Faulkner (1897-1962) |
| Fear, born of that stern matron, Responsibility. | William McFee (1881-1966) |
| He that lives to forever, never fears dying | William Penn (1644-1718) |
| I was a little afraid of him; not the boy himself, but of what he seemed to be: the victim of the world. | William Saroyan (1908-1981) |
| Death is a fearful thing | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,It seems to me most strange that men should fear;Seeing that death, a necessary end,Will come when it will come. | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| What need I fear of thee? But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live; That I may tell pale-hearted fear it lies, And sleep in spite of thunder | William Shakespeare (1564-1616) |
| Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it. | William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965) |
| Named must your fear be before banish it you can. | Yoda |
| Den fryktsomme blir redd før faren kommer, den feige mens den står på, men den modige når den er over. | Jean Paul (1763-1825) |
| Han er redd som ikke tør skjelve. | Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) |