Fear is inevitable, I have to accept that, but I cannot allow it to paralyze me.
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.
Democracy will not come
Today, this year
Nor ever
Through compromise and fear.
Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.
Whatever solace the Christian faith could give was balanced by the anxiety it generated.
Fear of the unknown causes tension. Knowledge helps eliminate it. Be prepared.
Fear is the reason for making art. It is a means to freedom.
UNLESS someone like you
cares a whole awful lot,
nothing is going to get better.
It's not.
I fear the vermin that shall undermine
Senate and citadel and school and shrine.