I won’t touch on risky, because that’s subjective. People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

I’m afraid that everything will get homogenized and be the same.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last.

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.

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

I wanted to write a book that talked about the emotions of children, which is the rainbow. We all have moods. We talk about being blue when we’re sad, and being yellow when we’re cowards, and when we’re mad, we’re red.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Fear doesn’t exist anywhere except in the mind.

I’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.

Only those are fit to live who are not afraid to die.

If I feel anxious every time someone is staring at me, well, I can’t control what they stare at, but my reaction is, I’m just not going to go outside the house. I’m going to stay in and chill. And when I do go out, I understand what comes along with that.

Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.

I was in my thirteenth year when I heard a voice from God to help me govern my conduct. And the first time I was very much afraid.

What difference is there between us, save a restless dream that follows my soul but fears to come near you?

No one that encounters prosperity does not also encounter danger.

You must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I’ll go for the gross-out. I’m not proud.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

Paris by night is a nightmare now. It is not a cliche anymore.

I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don’t kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

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.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

Facts are not interesting to me.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.

There are definitely people who disagree with certain creative decisions you make. Pleasing everyone is pretty hard.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

The worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

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

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Overcoming fear is the first step to success for entrepreneurs. The winners all exemplify that, and the hard work and commitment they have shown underlines what is needed to set up a business.

One of the things I definitely think of as a driver of me is fear. And it’s fear of failure, fear of being overtaken.

Men walk this tightrope where any sign of weakness illicits shame, and so they’re afraid to make themselves vulnerable for fear of looking weak.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.

Worrying is like paying on a debt that may never come due.

I have a little bit of PTSD when I hear a big bang or a loud noise or keys – I jump out of my skin.

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

If one has fear, there can be no initiative in the creative sense of the word. To have initiative in this sense is to do something original – to do it spontaneously, naturally, without being guided, forced, controlled. It is to do something which you love to do.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

It’s true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

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.