Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

If you’re in this business and you are scared, then you better do something else.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

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

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

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.

Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Some people will have to be afraid. Those who plunder the nation, deliver injustice, will have to feel scared of me. And I am not afraid of admitting this. Government cannot be so lenient that it forgives them.

If I panic, everyone else panics.

There is a wide, yawning black infinity. In every direction, the extension is endless; the sensation of depth is overwhelming. And the darkness is immortal. Where light exists, it is pure, blazing, fierce; but light exists almost nowhere, and the blackness itself is also pure and blazing and fierce.

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

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

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

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

There are things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

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.

Man, so long as he remains free, has no more constant and agonizing anxiety than find as quickly as possible someone to worship.

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

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.

I don’t want to wake up and be bored. That’s probably my greatest fear is to have nothing to do. What better job is there than to play quarterback for an NFL team, and certainly one that I’ve been on for a long time and had success with? I don’t plan on giving it up any time soon.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

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

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

Let me spell it out: with the psychotic boss, nothing you do is ever quite right. They set traps, asking you to do things, and no matter how hard you think of accomplishing it in their way, it is wrong and you are to blame. This tends to instill a lot of fear in you.

Having a child, that’s always been my biggest fear. I want a child and I fear a child.

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

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

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

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

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

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

Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

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.

If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.

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.

When even one American – who has done nothing wrong – is forced by fear to shut his mind and close his mouth – then all Americans are in peril.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

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

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.

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

Fear is real, but so is love.

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

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

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

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.

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

In time we hate that which we often fear.

I just want my family to be safe. Because I am sometimes polarizing, I fear for their safety.

The darkness, the loop of negative thoughts on repeat, clamours and interferes with the music I hear in my head.

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

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

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

If God is just, I tremble for my country.

Unless we form the habit of going to the Bible in bright moments as well as in trouble, we cannot fully respond to its consolations because we lack equilibrium between light and darkness.