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

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

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.

If a work of art is rich and vital and complete, those who have artistic instincts will see its beauty, and those to whom ethics appeal more strongly than aesthetics will see its moral lesson. It will fill the cowardly with terror, and the unclean will see in it their own shame.

There’s a long way to fall when you pretend that you’re so far away from the earth, far away from reality, floating in a bubble that’s protected by fame or success. It’s scary, and it’s the thing I fear the most: to be swallowed up by that bubble. It can be poison to you, fame.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.

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.

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

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.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

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

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.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear – fear of the unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants above everything else is safety.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us thru that darkness to a safe and sane future.

I’m going to get an MRI to find out whether I have claustrophobia.

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

Everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear.

Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a ‚crank.‘

Death obsesses me, yes it does. I can’t really understand why it doesn’t obsess everyone – I think it does really, I’m just a little more out about it.

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.

I am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.

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

Love is the only game that is not called on account of darkness.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

I’m kind of claustrophobic… It’s not even like enclosed spaces. It’s like I hate being stuck in one band, you know? Just being stuck is the biggest drag, for fear that, you know, just that you can’t get out.

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.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

I’m not afraid of death, but I’m in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there’s no risk of accident for someone who’s dead.

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

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

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

Marriage is scary to me, man.

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.

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.

Death is a fearful thing.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best; it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

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

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

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.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

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

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.

I was a very shy character, always feeling uncomfortable because everybody was stronger than I, and always afraid I would look like a sissy. Everybody else played baseball; everybody else did all kinds of athletic things.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

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

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.

Light thinks it travels faster than anything but it is wrong. No matter how fast light travels, it finds the darkness has always got there first, and is waiting for it.

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

In this business, by the time you realize you’re in trouble, it’s too late to save yourself. Unless you’re running scared all the time, you’re gone.

The only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.

The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

I feel connected to my generation through the music, but I also fear for us. We’re in a very self-destructive state where we’re addicted to outside opinions and we all feel like we have fans.

A lot of times, people have something that they’re afraid of. They’ve got a client that’s mad at them. They’ve got a project that’s due. And they let that stress hang over their head. I don’t let that happen.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

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

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