I’m not one of those guys that has a great worldview. I kind of deal with terror and fear and isolation and abandonment.

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.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

I love the name of honor, more than I fear death.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart… Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

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

The world we see that seems so insane is the result of a belief system that is not working. To perceive the world differently, we must be willing to change our belief system, let the past slip away, expand our sense of now, and dissolve the fear in our minds.

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

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

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

Love is a really scary thing, and you never know what’s going to happen. It’s one of the most beautiful things in life, but it’s one of the most terrifying. It’s worth the fear because you have more knowledge, experience, you learn from people, and you have memories.

Nixon represents that dark, venal and incurably violent side of the American character almost every other country in the world has learned to fear and despise.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

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

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

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

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.

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

Where fear is, happiness is not.

People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don’t necessarily merit fear.

We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose.

We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome.

Losers are people who are afraid of losing.

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

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

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.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it’s on both ends of the spectrum. On one end you have happiness, falling in love, infatuation with someone, passion, all that. On the other end, you’ve got obsession, jealousy, danger, fear, anger and frustration.

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

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.

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

Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.

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.

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.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Regarded zoologically, man is today an almost isolated figure in nature. In his cradle, he was less isolated.

Dread of night. Dread of not-night.

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

I really don’t pay attention to the outside world when I’m incarcerated, because being in prison is like being in a different world. So I don’t pay attention to what’s going on outside of jail, because it’s all beyond my control.

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.

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

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.

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.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have.

People seem not to see that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.

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.

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 don’t have many friends; I’m very much a loner. As a child I was very isolated, and I’ve never been really close to anyone.

Cancer is still a word that strikes fear into people’s hearts, producing a deep sense of powerlessness. But today it is possible to find out through a blood test whether you are highly susceptible to breast and ovarian cancer, and then take action.

Since it is difficult to join them together, it is safer to be feared than to be loved when one of the two must be lacking.

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

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

This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

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.

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

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

Biography lends to death a new terror.