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 am frightened at seeing all the footprints directed towards thy den, and none returning.
Apprehensions are greater in proportion as things are unknown.
The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous.
If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
Some men sleep
with loose hands that by day are fists
holding fear
As the heaven is high above the earth, so great is his mercy toward them that fear him.
Fear, ladies and gentlemen, is the only true comedian in town.
Thou tremblest; and the whiteness in thy cheek
Is apter than thy tongue to tell thy errand.
I have a faint cold fear thrills through my veins,
That almost freezes up the heat of life.
When the truth cannot be clearly made out, what is false is increased through fear.