FEAR QUOTES
“There is only one thing that makes a dream impossible to achieve: the fear of failure.”
― Paulo Coelho
“Bran thought about it. ‘Can a man still be brave if he’s afraid?’
‘That is the only time a man can be brave,’ his father told him.”
― George R.R. Martin
“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”
― Patrick Rothfuss
“Fear doesn’t shut you down; it wakes you up”
― Veronica Roth
“Fear cuts deeper than swords.”
― George R.R. Martin
“Don’t be afraid of your fears. They’re not there to scare you. They’re there to let you know that something is worth it.”
― C. JoyBell C.
“There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.”
― Jane Austen
“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.”
― Plato
“Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.”
― Salvador Dali
“Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
― Jim Morrison
“Scared is what you’re feeling. Brave is what you’re doing.”
― Emma Donoghue
“Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.”
― Leigh Bardugo
“Don’t give in to your fears. If you do, you won’t be able to talk to your heart.”
― Paulo Coelho
“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”
― James Baldwin
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
― Nelson Mandela
“I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.”
― Rainbow Rowell
“Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.”
― Marie Curie
“Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.”
― Dan Brown
“I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change… I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back….”
― Erica Jong
“We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who love us. As long as there is love and memory, there is no true loss.”
― Cassandra Clare
“A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”
― Marcus Aurelius
“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”
― Sigmund Freud
“I wonder if fears ever really go away, or if they just lose their power over us.”
― Veronica Roth
“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.”
― Joseph Campbell
“Books are finite, sexual encounters are finite, but the desire to read and to fuck is infinite; it surpasses our own deaths, our fears, our hopes for peace.”
― Roberto Bolano
“How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.”
― Paulo Coelho
“We meet fear. We greet the unexpected visitor and listen to what he has to tell us. When fear arrives, something is about to happen.”
― Leigh Bardugo
“Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared. It means you go on even though you’re scared.”
― Angie Thomas
“Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, and taking action in the face of fear.”
― Roy T. Bennett
“When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.”
― Audre Lorde
“Here is the world. Beautiful and terrible things will happen. Don’t be afraid.”
― Frederick Buechner
“Because fear kills everything,” Mo had once told her. “Your mind, your heart, your imagination.”
― Cornelia Funke
“Anything that’s human is mentionable, and anything that is mentionable can be more manageable. When we can talk about our feelings, they become less overwhelming, less upsetting, and less scary. The people we trust with that important talk can help us know that we are not alone.”
― Fred Rogers
“I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the basic motivation. Fear of getting failing grades, fear of not staying with your class, etc. Interest can produce learning on a scale compared to fear as a nuclear explosion to a firecracker.”
― Stanley Kubrick
“There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don’t.”
― Lemony Snicket
“Find out what you’re afraid of and go live there.”
― Chuck Palahniuk
“There’s no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.”
― George R.R. Martin
“Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter.”
― Francis Chan
“Cherish those who seek the truth but beware of those who find it.”
― Voltaire
“It’s better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.”
― Michael Crichton
“Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because we love them. We fear dying because we value being alive. Don’t wish you didn’t fear anything. All that would mean is that you didn’t feel anything.”
― Cassandra Clare
“A kind of light spread out from her. And everything changed color. And the world opened out. And a day was good to awaken to. And there were no limits to anything. And the people of the world were good and handsome. And I was not afraid any more.”
― John Steinbeck
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
― Bertrand Russell
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