Without fullness of experience, length of days is nothing. When fullness of life has been achieved, shortness of days is nothing. That is perhaps why the young have usually so little fear of death they live by intensities that the elderly have forgotten. Lewis Mumford on fear
In the ring, I never really knew fear. Rocky Marciano on fear
Can someone within that society walk into the town square and say what they want without fear of being punished for his or her views? If so, then that society is a free society. If not, it is a fear society. Natan Sharansky on fear
There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when the rain comes cracking down. Don DeLillo on fear
I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity. We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics. Lauryn Hill on fear
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things. Jean Baudrillard on fear
We are biological creatures. We are born, we live, we die. There is no transcendent purpose to existence. At best we are creatures of reason, and by using reason we can cure ourselves of emotional excess. Purged of both hope and fear, we find courage in the face of helplessness, insignificance and uncertainty. Jonathan Sacks on fear
My greatest fear is feeling like a professional novelist. Somebody who creates characters, who sits down and has pieces of paper taped to the wall - what's going to happen in this scene, or this act. What I like is for it to be a much more scary, sloppy reflection of who I am. Jonathan Safran Foer on fear
Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be. Martha Beck on fear
Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Mary Baker Eddy on fear
Fear is a question. What are you afraid of and why? Our fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if we explore them. Marilyn French on fear
Stand before the people you fear and speak your mind - even if your voice shakes. Maggie Kuhn on fear
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. Julien Green on fear
Fear rules almost every newsroom in the country. Dan Rather on fear
Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work. Lars von Trier on fear
Failure seldom stops you. What stops you is the fear of failure. Jack Lemmon on fear
My greatest fear is that the audience will beat me to the punch line. David Mamet on fear
Roosevelt's declaration that Americans had 'nothing to fear but fear itself' was a glorious piece of inspirational rhetoric and just as gloriously wrong. Russell Baker on fear
Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue. Diane Abbott on fear
I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs. Diane Abbott on fear