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.
I've grown certain that the root of all fear is that we've been forced to deny who we are.
There are few things more liberating in this life than having your worst fear realized.
The love of justice is simply in the majority of men the fear of suffering injustice.
The man who fears nothing is not less powerful than he who is feared by every one.
If you wish to fear nothing, consider that everything is to be feared.
We must expect everything and fear everything from time and from men.
You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.
"Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.