It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me. Jodie Foster
Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy. H. L. Mencken
Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Francis of Assisi
Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I don't fear death, I'm a fatalist. I believe when it's your time, that's it. It's the hand you're dealt. Clint Eastwood
America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand. Harry S. Truman
Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one. John C. Maxwell
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Bertrand Russell
The Cuban people still live in constant fear of a brutal totalitarian regime that has demonstrated time and again its utter disregard for basic human dignity. The fight for a free Cuba has gone on for far too long. Mitt Romney
I was set free because my greatest fear had been realized, and I still had a daughter who I adored, and I had an old typewriter and a big idea. And so rock bottom became a solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life. J. K. Rowling
I will show you fear in a handful of dust. T. S. Eliot
I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. Isaac Asimov
Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. Richard Bach
It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning. George Orwell
It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. Douglas MacArthur
There is a time to take counsel of your fears, and there is a time to never listen to any fear. George S. Patton
I love the name of honor, more than I fear death. Julius Caesar
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear. Niccolo Machiavelli