Love is the total absence of fear. Love asks no questions. Its natural state is one of extension and expansion, not comparison and measurement. Gerald Jampolsky on fear
There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense. Thomas Hobbes on fear
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you. Lord Chesterfield on fear
I fear those big words which make us so unhappy. James Joyce on fear
We must laugh before we are happy, for fear we die before we laugh at all. Jean de La Fontaine on fear
The fear of burglars is not only the fear of being robbed, but also the fear of a sudden and unexpected clutch out of the darkness. Elias Canetti on fear
I don't know how it is for women or for other guys, but when I was young and in my 20s, I had a fear of marriage. Jeff Bridges on fear
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. Rowan Williams on fear
I don't have any fear of intimacy, but rather thrive on it, which is rare in a public person. Jack Nicholson on fear
Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise. Henry A. Wallace on fear
Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them. Umberto Eco on fear
The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth. Emile M. Cioran on fear
In the company of the accomplished, people hope it will rub off on themselves, in the company of the misfortunate, they fear it! Bryant H. McGill on fear
Under the influence of fear, which always leads men to take a pessimistic view of things, they magnified their enemies' resources, and minimized their own. Titus Livius on fear
Between the fear that something would happen and the hope that still it wouldn't, there is much more space than one thinks. On that narrow, hard, bare and dark space a lot of us spend their lives. Ivo Andric on fear
Do we fear terrorism so much that we throw out our Constitution, and are we unwilling and afraid to debate our Constitution? Rand Paul on fear
Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another. Lord Chesterfield on fear
If I have resistance to something, it means there's something wrong. The resistance to me is a sign of fear. Billy Corgan on fear