Fear is such a powerful emotion for humans that when we allow it to take us over, it drives compassion right out of our hearts.
I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
It is not death that a man should fear. He should fear never beginning to live.
In itself, homosexuality is as limiting as heterosexuality: the ideal should be to be capable of loving a woman or a man; either, a human being, without feeling fear, restraint, or obligation.
Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
I await your sentence with less fear than you pass it. The time will come when all will see what I see.
It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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.
Dare to be honest and fear no labor.
It is not these well-fed long-haired men that I fear, but the pale and the hungry-looking.
Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.
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.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Choose to be loved rather than feared. He who is feared by all, he fears all.
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.
Fear prophets, and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.
The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows where he is going. It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death.
Love can isolate us from everything around us. But in its absence, we can be filled with the fear that something comparable exists.
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.
No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.”
The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.
No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa.
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,
Song, how hard it is sing you when I have to sing in fear!
I hope nothing. I fear nothing. I am free.
People fail to get along because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they have not communicated with each other.
Courage is never to let your actions be influenced by your fears.
For I will not let fear swallow My breath, my dreams, and my hopes! My hidden courage will saw off your fist.
He who shouts in his anger is harmless. Fear the one who is silently angry.
Fear urged him to go back, but growth drove him on.
Human life is under the absolute dominion of two mighty principles, fear and hope, and that any one who can make these serve his ends may be sure of rapid fortune.
I more fear what is within me than what comes from without.
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
“it is much safer to be feared than loved because ...love is preserved by the link of obligation which, owing to the baseness of men, is broken at every opportunity for their advantage; but fear preserves you by a dread of punishment which never fails.”
If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.”
The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers his fear.
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.
There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.
Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.
Till ye have battled with great grief and fears/And borne the conflict of dream-shattering years/Wounded with fierce desire and worn with strife/Children, ye have not lived: for this is life.”
There is but One God, His name is Truth, He is the Creator, He fears none, he is without hate, He never dies, He is beyond the cycle of births and death, He is self illuminated, He is realized by the kindness of the True Guru. He was True in the beginning, He was True when the ages commenced and has ever been True, He is also True now.
There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
Preventive war is like committing suicide out of fear of death.
Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
When I'm painting, I'm not aware of what I'm doing. It's only after a get acquainted period that I see what I've been about. I've no fears about making changes for the painting has a life of its own.
Man is mortal with his fears, and immortal with his wishes.
I am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. I see how peoples are set against one another, and in silence, unknowingly, foolishly, obediently, innocently slay one another.
“The example could encourage others who only fear to start.
We promise according to our hopes; we fulfill according to our fears.
Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious.
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
“To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already 3-parts dead.
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Where fear is, happiness is not.
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.
The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived.
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.
The pleasures of love are always in proportion to our fears.
I love her beauty, but I fear her mind.
Glory to those with souls devoid of fear, Who for the people's cause did bravely die…
The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.
I looked on, I thought, I reflected, I admired, in a state of stupefaction not altogether unmingled with fear!
If there were no thunder, men would have little fear of lightning.