To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Fear Quotes
Shakespeare leads, with Bertrand Russell second by a distance and then a mixed group of novelists. Russell is the one to read here. In Dreams and Facts (1919) he says no man is liberated from fear who dare not see his place in the world as it is, and in Marriage and Morals (1929) that to fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.
Three entries are flagged. “The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself” is credited to Publilius Syrus and is disputed. A parody of the twenty-third Psalm credited to General Patton is marked misattributed. So is “None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear,” credited to Marshal Foch.
Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.
Most intellectual people do not believe in God, but they fear him just the same.
People with real power never fear of losing it. People with control think of little else.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
Death in itself is nothing; but we fear
To be we know not what, we know not where.
Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.
The fear of some divine and supreme powers keeps men in obedience.
The greatest weakness of all weaknesses is to fear too much to appear weak.
Fear is sharp-sighted, and can see things underground, and much more in the skies.