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

Mere humans who root through their refrigerators at three o’clock in the morning can only produce writing that matches what they do. And that includes me.

Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We’ll break out of it. It takes time.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

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.

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.

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.

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.

War had always seemed to me to be a purely human behavior. Accounts of warlike behavior date back to the very first written records of human history; it seemed to be an almost universal characteristic of human groups.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

Fear is present when we forget that we are a part of God’s divine design. Learning to experience authentic love means abandoning ego’s insistence that you have much to fear and that you are in an unfriendly world. You can make the decision to be free from fear and doubt and return to the brilliant light of love that is always with you.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

If you’re bored with life – you don’t get up every morning with a burning desire to do things – you don’t have enough goals.

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.

The flesh, or human nature, is generally lazy and self-centered.

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

The problem in defense is how far you can go without destroying from within what you are trying to defend from without.

The greater intellect one has, the more originality one finds in men. Ordinary persons find no difference between men.

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.

As soon as you set foot on a yacht you belong to some man, not to yourself, and you die of boredom.

I’m terrified of therapy because I don’t want it to mess with my creativity.

It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

Ever since the beginning of rock and roll, there’s been an Axl Rose. And it’s just boring. It’s totally boring to 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.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

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.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Possession isn’t nine-tenths of the law. It’s nine-tenths of the problem.

The computer brings out the worst in some people.

Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?

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.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

My message isn’t perfectly defined. I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Thus so wretched is man that he would weary even without any cause for weariness… and so frivolous is he that, though full of a thousand reasons for weariness, the least thing, such as playing billiards or hitting a ball, is sufficient enough to amuse him.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

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.

We must do everything in our power to cease the behaviour that makes children everywhere feel afraid.

You have a nice personality, but not for a human being.

The science of psychology has been far more successful on the negative than on the positive side… It has revealed to us much about man’s shortcomings, his illnesses, his sins, but little about his potentialities, his virtues, his achievable aspirations, or his psychological health.

One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what’s really happening to me, even if it’s a tough pill to swallow for people around me… I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.

There is not a truth existing which I fear… or would wish unknown to the whole world.

Man has the power to act as his own destroyer – and that is the way he has acted through most of his history.

It is a hard thing to let go of mistakes we’ve made and sins. God wants us to do that because He knows the guilt and the condemnation will keep us from becoming who He has created us to be.

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

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

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.

Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.

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

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.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

The terrorists are fighting freedom with all their cunning and cruelty because freedom is their greatest fear – and they should be afraid, because freedom is on the march.

Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish.

As social animals, we are extremely susceptible to the moods of other people. This gives us the power to subtly infuse into people the appropriate mood for influencing them.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

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

When you combine boring with fear, you have fun.

The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become.

I’d be so bored if I wasn’t going out there, knowing that I could still do it. So, I’m going to work hard to be ready to go, and I still plan on playing for a long time.