Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.

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

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.

Fear is real, but so is love.

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

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway.

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.

I’ve always had to conquer fear when I’m on stage. Basically, I was and still am a very shy person. It’s absolutely in conflict with what I do. But once I deliver the first joke I’m okay. It’s like I’m out there all by myself just delivering my lines to nobody in particular without ever trying to notice the audience in front of me.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

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

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.

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

It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, ‚always do what you are afraid to do.‘

My fear was not of death itself, but a death without meaning.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

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.

My father was a mean, controlling and manipulative person for most of his life. He was unpredictable and unstable. As a result, the atmosphere of our home was super-charged with fear because you never knew if what you did would make him mad or not.

At the start of the season, there are 16 teams in the top division looking behind them, making sure they avoid relegation. The fear starts in the boardroom, comes down to managers and through to players. The fans sense it.

Fear is the mother of morality.

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.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

I played a lot of tough clubs in my time. Once a guy in one of those clubs wanted to bet me $10 that I was dead. I was afraid to bet.

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.

Marriage is scary to me, man.

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

Do the thing we fear, and 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.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

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

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

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

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.

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

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

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

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

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

The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest.

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

If there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.

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.

Vulnerability is about showing up and being seen. It’s tough to do that when we’re terrified about what people might see or think.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

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.

Fear of a name increases fear of the thing itself.

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

Faith activates God – Fear activates the Enemy.

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

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

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.