Boredom is… a vital problem for the moralist, since half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

Generally speaking, if a human being never shows anger, then I think something’s wrong. He’s not right in the brain.

Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.

What we call Man’s power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

I’m not that keen on the idea of being unconscious.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

ISIS is not an existential threat to something happening to someone in the United States of America. It’s a serious problem overseas, but it’s confusing and frightening.

You don’t have to be scared of me, because I am loyal. Why are people so scared of creative ideas and so scared of truth? All I want to do is do good.

I never look at fashion magazines. I find them incredibly boring.

Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing.

Death and genitals are things that frighten people, and when people are frightened, they develop means of concealment and aggression. It is common sense.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

While physics and mathematics may tell us how the universe began, they are not much use in predicting human behavior because there are far too many equations to solve. I’m no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

The world is full of people with different characters and temperaments. We all have a dark side, a tendency to manipulate, and aggressive desires. The most dangerous types are those who repress their desires or deny the existence of them, often acting them out in the most underhanded ways.

Because I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

Life is better than death, I believe, if only because it is less boring, and because it has fresh peaches in it.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear.

Pirate was going to be my middle name, but then my uncle had a problem with it because pirates are bad.

I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

I’m going to get an MRI to find out whether I have claustrophobia.

The question isn’t, ‚What do we want to know about people?‘, It’s, ‚What do people want to tell about themselves?‘

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

It is the strange fate of man, that even in the greatest of evils the fear of the worst continues to haunt him.

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

All of us have been trained by education and environment to seek personal gain and security and to fight for ourselves. Though we cover it over with pleasant phrases, we have been educated for various professions within a system which is based on exploitation and acquisitive fear.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Let me spell it out: with the psychotic boss, nothing you do is ever quite right. They set traps, asking you to do things, and no matter how hard you think of accomplishing it in their way, it is wrong and you are to blame. This tends to instill a lot of fear in you.

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Morality is the theory that every human act must be either right or wrong, and that 99 % of them are wrong.

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.

People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that’s how they’ll react. But if you say, ‚We want peace, we want stability,‘ we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools.

Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment.

You quickly find, when you are a hand-reader as I am, that nothing interests people so much as themselves.

We fear that this moment will end, that we won’t get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

The human wish to credit good things as miraculous and to charge bad things to another account is apparently universal.

Fear is stupid. So are regrets.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy’s ranks.

I don’t know what’s the matter with people: they don’t learn by understanding; they learn by some other way – by rote, or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!