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 used to have nightmares that they would put ‚He played Ted‘ on my tombstone.

Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.

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.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

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

Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. The fearful are caught as often as the bold.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

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

We shall never be able to remove suspicion and fear as potential causes of war until communication is permitted to flow, free and open, across international boundaries.

It was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.

I sincerely believe… that banking establishments are more dangerous than standing armies.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

What the mind doesn’t understand, it worships or fears.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Fear seems to have many causes. Fear of loss, fear of failure, fear of being hurt, and so on, but ultimately all fear is the ego’s fear of death, of annihilation. To the ego, death is always just around the corner. In this mind-identified state, fear of death affects every aspect of your life.

There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear.

There’s two sorts of fear: one you embrace and one you should listen to and turn the other way.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

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

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

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.

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

Fear? If I have gained anything by damning myself, it is that I no longer have anything to fear.

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 has its use but cowardice has none.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

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

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.

It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.

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.

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

I’m afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery.

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.

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.

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

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

We make up horrors to help us cope with the real ones.

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn’t have that kind of personality, and it’s a terrifying thing to say.

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

Fear is real, but so is love.

The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

Just what is it that academics have to fear if they stand up for common decency, instead of letting campus barbarians run amok?

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.

There are a lot of ‚chicken Christians.‘ Chickens are generally afraid of life, and they seldom fly or reach their potential in life. And when a storm comes, all they seem to do is flap around the chicken yard, stirring up dirt and running to the chicken house.

How much pain they have cost us, the evils which have never happened.

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.

The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot – and it’s only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

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

I’m terrified of losing my voice.

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 worst part of success is, to me, adapting to it. It’s scary.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

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.

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

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