Fear - Quotes From Thinkers, Writers, Artists and Philosophers.

Epicurus on Fear

“The fool’s life is empty of gratitude and full of fears; its course lies wholly toward the future.”

~ Epicurus

Catholicism is obsessed with people’s sex lives. Having been brought up with it, fear and shame are still my core emotions.

“Weigh carefully your hopes as well as your fears, and whenever all the elements are in doubt, decide in your own favour; believe what you prefer.”

~ Seneca

“Hope is the fuel of progress and fear is the prison in which you put yourself”

~ Tony Benn

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

~ David Hume

“Courage consists not in hazarding without fear; but being resolutely minded in a just cause.”

~ Plutarch

“Fear is a healthy instinct, not a sign of weakness. It’s a natural self-defense mechanism common to felines, wolves, hyenas, & most humans.”

~ Hunter Thompson

“Of all base passions, fear is most accurs’d.”

~ William Shakespeare

In time we hate that which we often fear.

~ William Shakespeare

“tis true that we are in great danger, The greater therefore should our courage be.”

~ William Shakespeare

“The way we are living,
timorous or bold,
will have been our life.”

~ Seamus Heaney