The fear of death comes from limited awareness. Deepak Chopra on fear
I fear the boredom that comes with not learning and not taking chances. Robert Fulghum on fear
It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear! Anthony de Mello on fear
Boldness is a mask for fear, however great. John Dryden on fear
My fear is that I go up to the girl of my dreams and say 'I'm sorry, but I've got to say hello to you,' and she slides the stool back and gets up and walks away, saying, 'Not for me, Bub. I don't want anything to do with you.' John Mayer on fear
My feelings for Ellen overrode all of my fear about being out as a lesbian. I had to be with her, and I just figured I'd deal with the other stuff later. Portia de Rossi on fear
It's not necessary to fear the prospect of failure but to be determined not to fail. Jimmy Carter on fear
Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives. Gary Busey on fear
A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty. David Hume on fear
Most men are very attached to the idea of being male, and usually experience a lot of fear and insecurity around the idea of being a man. Most women are very identified with their gender, and also experience a tremendous amount of fear and insecurity. Andrew Cohen on fear
Luck is everything... My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I'm fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn't make a good suspense film. Alfred Hitchcock on fear
Death is not the biggest fear we have our biggest fear is taking the risk to be alive - the risk to be alive and express what we really are. Miguel Angel Ruiz on fear
The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored. Jean de la Bruyere on fear
People are afraid, and when people are afraid, when their pie is shrinking, they look for somebody to hate. They look for somebody to blame. And a real leader speaks to anxiety and to fear and allays those fears, assuages anxiety. Henry Louis Gates on fear
When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice. Drew Barrymore on fear
You pretend to be more eccentric than you actually are because you fear you are an interchangeable cog. Doug Coupland on fear
I am so tired of fear. And I don't want my girls to live in a country, in a world, based on fear. Michelle Obama on fear
I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past. Julia Ward Howe on fear
How strange this fear of death is! We are never frightened at a sunset. George MacDonald on fear