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Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.
-Swedish Proverb
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According to legend, one day a man was wandering in the desert when he met Fear and Plague. They said they were on their way to a large city where they were going to kill 10,000 people. The man asked Plague if he was going to do all the work. Plague smiled and said, No, I'll only take care of a few hundred. I'll let my friend Fear do the rest.
-Anon.
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He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.
-Proverb
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That fear may reach all, punish but few.
-Proverb
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A scalded cat dreads cold water.
-Proverb
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People always make the wolf more formidable than he is.
-Proverb
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Fear the man who fears you.
-Proverb
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Fear only two: God, and the man who has no fear of God.
-Proverb
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As the ostrich when pursued hideth his head, but forgetteth his body; so the fears of a coward expose him to danger.
-Akhenaton
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People are only mean when they're threatened, and that's what our culture does. That's what our economy does.
-Mitch Albom
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It is not a matter of being fearless. The fear is sometimes constant, but it's about moving forward regardless of the fear. Courage means feeling the fear and doing it anyway.
-Gillian Anderson
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Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.
-Marian Anderson
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An ugly sight, a man who is afraid.
-Jean Anouilh
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Come to the edge, He said. They said, We are afraid. Come to the edge, He said. They came. He pushed them... and they flew.
-Guillaume Apollinaire
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Every time you win, it diminishes the fear a little bit. You never really cancel the fear of losing; you keep challenging it.
-Arthur Ashe
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
-Marcus Aurelius
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You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.
-Jane Austen
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Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
-Francis Bacon
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It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear.
-Francis Bacon
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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that in general man cannot give in to fear, at the very least he postpones indefinitely the moment when he will have to confront himself with the object of his fear... when he will no longer have the assistance of reason as guaranteed by God, or when he will no longer have the assistance of God such as reason guaranteed. It is necessary to recoil, but it is necessary to leap, and perhaps one only recoils in order to leap better.
-Georges Bataille
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Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.
-Mary Catherine Bateson
A World of Ideas, 1989
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Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.
-Jean Baudrillard
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Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.
-Henry Ward Beecher
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Fear is met and destroyed with courage.
-James F. Bell
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Tell us your phobias, and we will tell you what you are afraid of.
-Robert Benchley
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Books about Fear
