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The Fear of Death often proves Mortal, and sets People on Methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.
Joseph Addison1672–1719The Spectator (1711–1714), No. 25 (29 March 1711)
- Life & Death
We teach boys to be afraid of fear. We teach boys to be afraid of weakness, of vulnerability. We teach them to mask their true selves, because they have to be, in Nigerian speak, “hard man!”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichieborn 1977We Should All Be Feminists—April 12, 2013
- Men
Of those things only should one be afraid
Which have the power of doing others harm;
Of the rest, no; because they are not fearful.
Dante Alighieri1265–1321The Divine Comedy (c. 1320), Inferno, Canto IIIn context
Just remember, you can do anything you set your mind to, but it takes action, perseverance, and facing your fears.
Gillian Andersonborn 1968Excerpt from the foreword in Girl Boss: Running the Show Like the Big Chicks, by Stacy Kravetz (1999)
- Motivation & Goals
If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls.
Maya Angelou1928–2014“Touched by an Angel”, Shaker, Why Don’t You Sing? (1983)
- Love
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.
Aristotle384–322 BC
- Good & Evil
It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of the scourge of power corrupts those who are subject to it.
Aung San Suu Kyiborn 1945Freedom from Fear (1991)
- Power
I am really much more afraid of those people who have so great a fear of the devil, than I am of the devil himself. Satan can do me no harm whatever, but they can trouble me very much, particularly if they be confessors.
Teresa of Ávila1515–1582The Life of St. Teresa of Jesus (c.1565), Ch. XXV. “Divine Locutions. Discussions on That Subject” ¶ 26 & 27
- Religion
Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night.
J. M. Barrie1860–1937The Little Minister (1891), Ch. 22: Lovers
- Halloween
There is no living thing that is not afraid when it faces danger. True courage is in facing danger when you are afraid, and that kind of courage you have in plenty.
L. Frank Baum1856–1919The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900), Chapter XVIn context
- Courage
Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.
The Bible (King James Version)Psalms (1611), Psalm 23:4 (KJV)In context
- Faith
- Life & Death
Don’t be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life.
Bertolt Brecht1898–1956The Mother (1930)
- Life & Death
Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
Giordano Bruno1548–1600Response to his judges on his conviction as a heretic (1600), as reported by Gaspar Schopp in a letter to Conrad Rittershausen
- Courage
No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke1729–1797A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful (1757), Part II Section II
The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear.
Edmund Burke1729–1797Second Speech on Conciliation with America (1775)