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

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

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.

In seeking comfort, we generally find a quiet corner in life where there is a minimum of conflict, and then we are afraid to step out of that seclusion.

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 only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard.

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

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

Power does not corrupt. Fear corrupts… perhaps the fear of a loss of power.

Whether you like it or not, you’re forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don’t fear death, I’m a fatalist. I believe when it’s your time, that’s it. It’s the hand you’re dealt.

The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.

I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I’ll go for the gross-out. I’m not proud.

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

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

A lot of people ask me when I do a stunt, ‚Jackie, are you scared?‘ Of course I’m scared. I’m not Superman.

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

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

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we’ve always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

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.

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

You may be educated abroad, you may be a great scientist, politician, but you always have a sneaking fear that if you don’t go to temples or do the ordinary things that you have been told to do, something evil might happen, so you conform. What happens to the mind that conforms? Investigate it, please.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.

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

Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we’re hardwired not to always think clearly when we’re scared. And the country’s scared.

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

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.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

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

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

Always do what you are afraid to do.

You entertain people who are satisfied. Hungry people can’t be entertained – or people who are afraid. You can’t entertain a man who has no food.

If I wished to do something, even if I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to make the effort with me, I would go out solo climbing. I did find solo climbing very challenging and a little frightening. You knew that you were completely on your own, and you had to overcome all the problems and possible dangers.

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.

I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.

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.

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.

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

People react to fear, not love; they don’t teach that in Sunday School, but it’s true.

Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy.

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

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.

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.

We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.

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

Let me spell it out: with the psychotic boss, nothing you do is ever quite right. They set traps, asking you to do things, and no matter how hard you think of accomplishing it in their way, it is wrong and you are to blame. This tends to instill a lot of fear in you.

It’s vulgar, coming from where I do, to talk about money.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

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

Religion can be the enemy of God. It’s often what happens when God, like Elvis, has left the building.

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.

For most of us, relationship with another is based on dependence, either economic or psychological. This dependence creates fear, breeds in us possessiveness, results in friction, suspicion, frustration.

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 afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

I think I’m like most people – we fear the unknown and the things that have yet to come to pass, which are the very things that don’t deserve to be feared. When you give God complete control, it’s very hard not to be fearless.

Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.