One is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.

Love is not altogether a delirium, yet it has many points in common therewith.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the undecideds could go one way or another.

And were an epitaph to be my story I’d have a short one ready for my own. I would have written of me on my stone: I had a lover’s quarrel with the world.

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

Boredom, anger, sadness, or fear are not ‚yours,‘ not personal. They are conditions of the human mind. They come and go. Nothing that comes and goes is you.

Sadness is but a wall between two gardens.

History shows us that in times of people feeling like they are in need of some sort of rebellion or protests, the artists rise because the poetry we create about pain and its relationship to culture in the world begins to soothe and heal people who are feeling confused or afraid.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

I’ve found men are less likely to let petty things annoy them.

Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can’t vent any anger against them; I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence.

I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

Hear reason, or she’ll make you feel her.

What is imponderable in the world is greater than what we can handle.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

It’s probably the worst feeling in the world, when you’re deeply and madly in love with a woman and you know she’s not feeling you the same way, and you don’t know why.

He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either.

The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.

The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

I put out one album one week, and I’m already worried about the next one. I feel a lot of emotion throughout the course of a day. But not to the point where you need to be worried about me.

Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.

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

Love is a state of being.

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any songs that are about how much I love someone. They’re all either about, like, ‚I hate you,‘ or ‚You make me hate me.‘

U2 is an original species… there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.

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.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

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

My favorite thing in life is writing about life, specifically the parts of life concerning love. Because, as far as I’m concerned, love is absolutely everything.

There is nothing that makes its way more directly into the soul than beauty.

People like to hear the word ‚love.‘

My ‚fear‘ is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

I didn’t mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

The safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.

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

Love always ends differently and it always begins differently – especially with me.

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me.

Anger is wonderful. It keeps you going. I’m angry about bankers. About the government.

If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.

A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.

Music was an experience, intimately married to your life. You could pay to hear music, but after you did, it was over, gone – a memory.

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

People are underestimating the force of angry kids.

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

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

I have the true feeling of myself only when I am unbearably unhappy.

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

Tears come from the heart and not from the brain.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

Being at ease with not knowing is crucial for answers to come to you.

It is vain for the coward to flee; death follows close behind; it is only by defying it that the brave escape.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Nothing in life is promised except death.

Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.

I searched for years I found no love. I’m sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

Everything can change at any moment, suddenly and forever.