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| He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life. | | Ralph Waldo Emerson | |
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| I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them. | | Elizabeth Taylor | |
| I was a little afraid of him; not the boy himself, but of what he seemed to be: the victim of the world. | | William Saroyan | |
| I will show you fear in a handful of dust. | | T.S. Eliot | |
| If we let things terrify us, life will not be worth living. | | Seneca | |
| Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you want to conquer fear, do not sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. | | Dale Carnegie | |
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| Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around in awareness. | | James Thurber | |
| Meanwhile, fears of universal disaster sank to an all-time low over the world | | Isaac Asimov | |
| Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. | | Bertrand Russell | |
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| Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear. | | Bertrand Russell | |
| 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 | | Thomas Hobbes | |
| No person who is enthusiastic about his work has anything to fear from life | | Samuel Goldwyn | |
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Of all the wonders that I yet have heard,
It seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come. | | William Shakespeare | |
| One of the things which danger does to you after a time is -, well, to kill emotion. I don't think I shall ever feel anything again except fear. None of us can hate anymore - or love. | | Graham Greene | |
| People are never more insecure than when they become obsessed with their fears at the expense of their dreams. | | Norman Cousins | |
| Suicide sometimes proceeds from cowardice, but not always; for cowardice sometimes prevents it; since as many live because they are afraid to die, as die because they are afraid to live | | Charles Caleb Colton | |
