41 quotes about Fear

To put meaning in one's life may end in madness, But life without meaning is the torture Of restlessness and vague desire.
It is a boat longing for the sea and yet afraid.

I am more afraid of an army of one hundred sheep led by a lion than an army of one hundred lions led by a sheep.

“Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying.”

Song, how hard it is sing you when I have to sing in fear!

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

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

I'd rather sing one wild song and burst my heart with it, than live a thousand years watching my digestion and being afraid of the wet

Men know that women are an overmatch for them, and therefore they choose the weakest or the most ignorant. If they did not think so, they never could be afraid of women knowing as much as themselves.”

It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.

“Avoid the flourish. Do not be afraid to be weak. Do not be ashamed to be tired. You look good when you’re tired. You look like you could go on forever. Now come into my arms. You are the image of my beauty .”

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going.<hr>
It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.