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

I think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.

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

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.

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.

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.

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 realities are that, you know, as a black man, you know, Barack can get shot going to the gas station, you know.

Bad food is made without pride, by cooks who have no pride, and no love. Bad food is made by chefs who are indifferent, or who are trying to be everything to everybody, who are trying to please everyone… Bad food is fake food… food that shows fear and lack of confidence in people’s ability to discern or to make decisions about their lives.

Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.

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

I was scared many times on Everest, but this is all part of the challenge. When I fell down a crevasse, it was pretty scary.

I hesitate to use a pathologizing label, but underneath the so-called narcissistic personality is definitely shame and the paralyzing fear of being ordinary.

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

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.

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein’s general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

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

If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again.

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

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

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

Even if it turns out that time travel is impossible, it is important that we understand why it is impossible.

I think what’s important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.

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

Some people have a difficult time facing truth and reality. They prefer to live in a make-believe world, pretending that certain things aren’t happening.

Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones.

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

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

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

Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.

Death is a fearful thing.

We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

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

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.

I really believed that fear is contagious.

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all grief is attachment. Thus one should discard attachment to be happy.

The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

I’m afraid that people who know me as I usually am will discover I have another side, a better and finer side. I’m afraid they’ll mock me, think I’m ridiculous and sentimental and not take me seriously. I’m used to not being taken seriously, but only the ‚light-hearted‘ Anne is used to it and can put up with it; the ‚deeper‘ Anne is too weak.

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.

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.

Fear is real, but so is love.

Ritual is another word for fear, manifested in a different way.

I’m not ashamed to say I fear something.

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.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

Fear is a spirit that produces a feeling.

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

Nixon was no more a saint than he was a great president.

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.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.

Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.

If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way we’re ever likely to do that is by going into space.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

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.

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.

It’s true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

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