Some people ask why people would go into a dark room to be scared. I say they are already scared, and they need to have that fear manipulated and massaged. I think of horror movies as the disturbed dreams of a society.
When I speak of the fear, intimidation, arrests, and public shaming of intellectuals and religious leaders who dare to speak their minds, and then I tell you that I’m from Saudi Arabia, are you surprised?
I wish for a world where everyone understands that discomfort is the price of legendary. And fear is just growth coming to get you.
Scalded cats fear even cold water.
I have a fear of being broke. That’s what I have a fear of. I’m not kidding.
No American should live in fear of going to work or sending their kids to school. Let’s end the fear. Let’s enforce existing gun laws.
Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.
Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can’t do, fear or even disgust at growing old.
We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.
It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
Silence is the residue of fear.
We keep score in life because it matters. It counts. It matters. Too many people opt out and never discover their own abilities because they fear failure. They don’t understand commitment.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Fear of failure is caused by lack of self-esteem and confidence. Dealing with fear is the key to super success.
Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It’s impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.
Fear is not in the habit of speaking truth; when perfect sincerity is expected, perfect freedom must be allowed; nor has anyone who is apt to be angry when he hears the truth any cause to wonder that he does not hear it.
The process of spotting fear and refusing to obey it is the source of all true empowerment.
Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.
A child’s fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.
It is said that those whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad. It may well be that a war neurosis stirred up by propaganda of fear and hatred is the prelude to destruction.
Action conquers fear.
The topic of leadership is a touchy one. A lot of leaders fail because they don’t have the bravery to touch that nerve or strike that chord. Throughout my years, I haven’t had that fear.
By climbing mountains we were not learning how big we were. We were finding out how breakable, how weak and how full of fear we are.
Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It’s the fear that we’re not good enough.
Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement.
