Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

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.

People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.

Men are swayed more by fear than by reverence.

Night brings our troubles to the light, rather than banishes them.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens.

A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.

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.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness.

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.

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

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.

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.

Let the fear of a danger be a spur to prevent it; he that fears not, gives advantage to the danger.

At first, I was scared to show fear because you can never be sure how people will perceive you. But I dared myself to do that, to stand out. Now I’ll talk about being beaten up or robbed or making a stupid decision because of a girl or whatever.

He who fears being conquered is sure of defeat.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.

It’s not that I’m afraid to die. I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

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.

I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We’re in a very self-destructive state where we’re addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.

In Buddhist culture, offering food to the monk symbolizes the action of goodness, and if you have no opportunity to support the practice of spirituality, then you are somehow left in the realm of darkness.

I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything – diseases, spiders… and people getting tired of me.

The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven’t had that fear.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Death is a fearful thing.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

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.

We can fear things into existence. Fear looks into the future and imagines the worst that can happen.

I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

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

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

I still get very scared when I step in front of a live audience.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

Most damage that others do us is out of fear, humiliation and pain. Those feelings occur in all of us, not just in those of us who profess a certain religious or racial devotion.

Despotism can only exist in darkness, and there are too many lights now in the political firmament to permit it to remain anywhere, as it has heretofore done, almost everywhere.

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.

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

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

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.

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.

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

The darkness is really out there. It’s not something that’s in my head, just. It’s in my work because it’s in the world.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.