I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.
Taylor SwiftYou 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.
Bob MarleyCancer 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.
Angelina JolieI used to have nightmares that they would put ‚He played Ted‘ on my tombstone.
Keanu ReevesIf there is one thing I fear less than everything else, it is, I believe, persecution for my opinions. There are a good many points about which I may be diffident, but when it comes to questions of Truth and intellectual independence, there is no holding me – I can envisage no finer end than to sacrifice oneself for a conviction.
Pierre Teilhard de ChardinA son can bear with equanimity the loss of his father, but the loss of his inheritance may drive him to despair.
Niccolo MachiavelliIn 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.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiEvery utopia – let’s just stick with the literary ones – faces the same problem: What do you do with the people who don’t fit in?
Margaret AtwoodWe 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.
Thich Nhat HanhWhen the people you love are gone, you’re alone.
Keanu ReevesI really do feel part of America to my very bones; at the same time, I know that I come from somewhere else.
Paul AusterOne is never afraid of the unknown; one is afraid of the known coming to an end.
Jiddu KrishnamurtiI think so many people live their whole life in fear and doubt and shame.
Dolly PartonI spent a lot of years trying to outrun or outsmart vulnerability by making things certain and definite, black and white, good and bad. My inability to lean into the discomfort of vulnerability limited the fullness of those important experiences that are wrought with uncertainty: Love, belonging, trust, joy, and creativity to name a few.
Brene BrownDread, 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.
Joyce MeyerPoverty must not be a bar to learning and learning must offer an escape from poverty.
Lyndon B. JohnsonIf you die you’re completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I’m not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I’ve got.
Kurt CobainThat government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.
Thomas JeffersonI’m afraid that reason will triumph and that the world will become a place where anyone who doesn’t fit that will become unnecessary.
David ByrneThe 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.
George W. BushSan Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.
Jack LondonYou must be afraid, my son. That is how one becomes an honest citizen.
Jean-Paul SartreThe day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaMy son has died of AIDS.
Nelson MandelaMy wife is already in Heaven.
Billy GrahamSome 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.
Narendra ModiPart 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.
Barack ObamaCensorship 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.
Charles BukowskiNothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe safest course is to do nothing against one’s conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death.
VoltaireCollective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not regarded as members of the herd.
Bertrand RussellIs fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don’t let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.
Eckhart TolleFear follows crime and is its punishment.
VoltaireThere are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
Oscar WildeNever let the fear of striking out get in your way.
Babe RuthNixon 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.
Hunter S. ThompsonI am not afraid of death, I just don’t want to be there when it happens.
Woody AllenBecause I believe in God and have faith in God, it doesn’t mean I am immortal. It doesn’t mean I am immune, as has been claimed. I am as scared as anyone of getting hurt, especially driving a Formula One car.
Ayrton SennaExcept for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
William Makepeace ThackerayThere 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.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaNo passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund BurkeAlways do what you are afraid to do.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhen Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn’t eat or sleep.
Marilyn MonroeThe only answer to fear is faith in God, knowing He loves you unconditionally and individually.
Joyce MeyerIt was the experience of mystery – even if mixed with fear – that engendered religion.
Albert EinsteinThere’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.
RihannaWhere fear is, happiness is not.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaI think I have a big fear of things spiraling out of control. Out of control and dangerous and reckless and thoughtless scares me, because people get hurt.
Taylor SwiftFear not those who argue but those who dodge.
Dale CarnegieEven the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own.
Mother TeresaI am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.
Martin LutherThe truth is: Belonging starts with self-acceptance. Your level of belonging, in fact, can never be greater than your level of self-acceptance, because believing that you’re enough is what gives you the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and imperfect.
Brene BrownI’m always worried about everything. Like spiders.
Taylor SwiftThe more you live in the present moment, the more the fear of death disappears.
Eckhart TolleI’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and laziness.
Denzel WashingtonGuilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.
Coco ChanelMy only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.
Thomas JeffersonI am so tired of fear. And I don’t want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear.
Michelle ObamaThe ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned.
Maya AngelouOur dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.
George Eliot