Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

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.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

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.

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.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

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

I don’t believe in an afterlife, so I don’t have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.

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.

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.

As a rule, men worry more about what they can’t see than about what they can.

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.

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

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.

If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.

A person’s fears are lighter when the danger is at hand.

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

As a vulnerability researcher, the greatest barrier I see is our low tolerance for vulnerability. We’re almost afraid to be happy. We feel like it’s inviting disaster.

Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

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

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

There is no such thing as paranoia. Your worst fears can come true at any moment.

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.

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.

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

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.

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

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

I’ve been afraid of people playing their life away with too many toys.

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

For a long time I was scared I’d find out I was like my mother.

I have warned many times about the guaranteed dangers of betting with your heart instead of your head – big darkness, soon come – but every once in a while you get a fair chance to have it both ways, and the annual NCAA basketball Tournament is one of them.

Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.

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

There are more things to alarm us than to harm us, and we suffer more often in apprehension than reality.

There’s no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively – I am one with the people.

True nobility is exempt from fear.

If you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.

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

Where fear is, happiness is not.

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

Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness.

I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.

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.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

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

The components of anxiety, stress, fear, and anger do not exist independently of you in the world. They simply do not exist in the physical world, even though we talk about them as if they do.

The more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

Once I knew only darkness and stillness… my life was without past or future… but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.

What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear; that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it.

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.

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

I want you to panic. I want you to feel the fear I feel every day. And then I want you to act.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

Fear is the thought of admitted inferiority.

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