I think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.

I’m kind of claustrophobic… It’s not even like enclosed spaces. It’s like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can’t get out.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

The worst, most dangerous person to America is clearly Paula Deen.

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

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

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.

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.

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.

We do not know what love is. We know the symptoms of it, the pleasure, the pain, the fear, the anxiety and so on. We try to solve the symptoms, which becomes a wandering in darkness. We spend our days and nights in this, and it is soon over in death.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

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.

Worry is a cycle of inefficient thoughts whirling around a center of fear.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

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.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

Our need for certainty in an endeavor as uncertain as raising children makes explicit ‚how-to-parent‘ strategies both seductive and dangerous.

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

I have a wish. It as a fear as well – that in my end will be my beginning.

Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear.

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

The greatest mistake you can make in life is continually fearing that you’ll make one.

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.

If there’s something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.

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.

We simply attempt to be fearful when others are greedy and to be greedy only when others are fearful.

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

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

No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now.

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

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

It’s not morbid to talk about death. Most people don’t worry about death, they worry about a bad death.

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.

A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.

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

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For 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 do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

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.

The first duty of man is to conquer fear; he must get rid of it, he cannot act till then.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

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

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.