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.
A brave man is one who admits his fear. Only a fool believes himself invincible.
Fear and superstition always follow the unseen, the unknown, the whispered of.
Anxiety grew, the fear that always comes when an established pattern falters.
The happy consciousness is shaky enough—a thin surface over fear, frustration, and disgust.
I have no fear nor shrinking; I have seen death so often that it is not strange or fearful to me.
I find no foeman in the road but Fear —
To doubt is failure, and to dare, success!
It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
For better or for worse, she found herself putting aside fear in favor of curiosity.