Fear Quotes
The thing that stops us and, when faced, the thing that frees us. Both sides explored here.
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"Fear is the teacher of the brave."Selma Lagerlöf
"Fear is the root of all hatred."Henrik Ibsen
"Fear is only as powerful as we allow it to be."Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"Fear is the shadow cast by our own disbelief."Hans Christian Andersen
"Fear dissolves in the light of understanding."Hans Christian Andersen
"If we are not afraid of God, we are not afraid of anything else in this world."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Fear is the tool of tyrants."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Fear is often the greatest barrier to success"Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"The specific character of despair is precisely this: it is unaware of being despair."Søren Kierkegaard
"Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom."Søren Kierkegaard
"Sin is despair, and despair is sin, and they feed each other endlessly."Søren Kierkegaard
"Fear is the only real curse. Everything else is just shadow."August Strindberg
"Fear often masquerades as prudence, keeping us from our destiny."Selma Lagerlöf
"Fear is the mind's attempt to control the future."Henrik Ibsen
"Fear is the mind killer."Boris Pasternak
"Fear is nothing but false expectations appearing real."Boris Pasternak
"Fear is the doorkeeper guarding our greatest growth."Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"Fear is the tool of tyrants and the refuge of cowards."Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"Fear is the teacher that shows us where we must grow."Selma Lagerlöf
"What we fear most often teaches us what we must become."Selma Lagerlöf
"Fear is the tax we pay on unlived futures."Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"An enemy who is generous is more to be feared than a whole army of the malicious."Henrik Ibsen
"Fear is the mind's way of protecting us from possibilities we have not yet learned to face."Boris Pasternak
"I am afraid of only one thing—the passage of time."Anna Akhmatova
"Fear is the mind's way of protecting itself from the unknown."Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
"Fear is the prison of the mind."Maxim Gorky
"Fear is the opposite of love."Maxim Gorky
"Fear is not the opposite of courage—ignorance is."Vladimir Nabokov
"The fear of death is often greater than death itself."August Strindberg
"Fear is the greatest obstacle to freedom."Henrik Ibsen