Fear Quotes
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When political leaders fail to denounce anti-Semitic violence and slurs, the void is not only demoralizing to the victims, but silence actually enables the wrongdoing. Silence by elected officials in particular conveys approval - or at least acquiescence - and can contribute to a climate of fear and a sense of vulnerability.
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I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.
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Fear builds walls to bar the light.
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It's not natural to outlive your child. This has always been my greatest fear.
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Courage is not the absence of fear and pain, but the affirmation of life despite fear and pain.
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Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
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I definitely have a fear of spiders. Don't we want to embrace our fears?
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Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace.
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If it be of the highest importance to man, as an individual, that his religion should be true, the case of society is not the same. Society has no future life to hope for or to fear; and provided the citizens profess a religion, the peculiar tenets of that religion are of very little importance to its interests.
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Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.
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Live by faith and not by fear.
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When I can read my title clear To mansions in the skies, I'll bid farewell to every fear, And wipe my weeping eyes.
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It's actually the samurai spirit, which is 'no fear and never give up.
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The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets.
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As the thought comes to me to exorcise and transform this black with a white drawing, it has already become a surface.. .Now I have lost all fear, and begin to draw on the black surface.
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When you focus on serving, there is no fear in you.
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There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down.
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Fear has a very concrete power of keeping us from doing and saying the things that are our purpose.
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With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The "why?" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving
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To worship God in spirit is the service and homage of the heart, and implies fear of God and trust in Him.
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You can be surrounded by people all the time, but you feel so alone. I think that's when you can lose perspective and lose control of what you're doing. It's almost as if you have no fear and you don't really care about what happens to yourself.
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In the end one cannot avoid the conclusion that AIDS unites certain human themes - homosexuality, sexual disease, and death - about which society actively resists enlightenment. These are things that we are unwilling to address or even think about. We don't want to understand them. We would rather fear them.
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'House of Leaves' is certainly about the unsettling nature of fear - and it was my aim to address that - but it's also about recovering from fear.
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When politicians use fear, they are playing into the enemy's hand.
