What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering. Jeffrey Kluger
Less base the fear of death than fear of life. Edward Young
I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles... How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people's freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran. Shimon Peres
I wish there were more true conversion, and then there would not be so much backsliding, and, for fear of suffering, living at ease, when there are so few to contend for Christ and His cause. Donald Cargill
Fear not and the God of mercies grant a full gale and a fair entry into His kingdom, which may carry sweetly and swiftly over the bar, that you find not the rub of death. Donald Cargill
I wish to be a martyr, and I don't fear death. Muqtada al Sadr
I don't have a fear of flying I have a fear of crashing. Billy Bob Thornton
Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me. A. N. Wilson
I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death. A. N. Wilson
On the one hand Twitter gives you the opportunity to engage with people, which is great, but on the other there are people who feel they can say whatever they want, put poison out there, really, without fear of any repercussions. Michael Sheen
Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation. Gouverneur Morris
Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government. Wendell Phillips
If you have stage fright, it never goes away. But then I wonder: is the key to that magical performance because of the fear? Stevie Nicks
For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time. John Frusciante
What our children have to fear is not the cars on the highways of tomorrow but our own pleasure in calculating the most elegant parameters of their deaths. J. G. Ballard
We are near, very near, to an end to the eurozone crisis... The worst - in the sense of the fear of the eurozone breaking up - is over. But the best isn't there yet. Francois Hollande
You always have this fear in a movie of just being somebody's woman. Charlize Theron
Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me. Brad Pitt