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 dread to think of a society devoid of love, compassion and humanity.
It is when power is wedded to chronic fear that it becomes formidable.
Be a hero. Always say, “I have no fear.” Tell this to everyone—“Have no fear.”
There is not such a word
Spoke of in Scotland as this term of fear.
You can behold such sights,
And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks,
When mine is blanch'd with fear.
Or in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush suppos'd a bear!
To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,
Gives in your weakness strength unto your foe.
We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger.