“Those who learned to know death, rather than to fear and fight it, become our teachers about life.”
— Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
“Love is what we were born with. Fear is what we learned here.”
— Marianne Williamson
“Fear of death has been the greatest ally of tyranny past and present.”
— Sidney Hook
“For in the end, freedom is a personal and lonely battle; and one faces down fears of today so that those of tomorrow might be engaged.”
— Alice Walker
“We are not here concerned with hopes or fears, only with truth as far as our reason permits us to discover it.”
— Charles Darwin
“No power is strong enough to be lasting if it labors under the weight of fear.”
— Cicero
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.”
— Nelson Mandela
“Let us go forth with fear and courage and rage to save the world.”
— Grace Paley
“Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation.”
— Albert Einstein
“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
“How little can be done under the spirit of fear.”
— Florence Nightingale
“Love is the productive form of relatedness to others and to oneself. It implies responsibility, care, respect. If it isn't productive and respectful, it isn't love, but only fear masquerading as love.”
— Erich Fromm
“Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.”
— Baruch Spinoza
“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
— Franklin D. Roosevelt
“March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
— C. S. Lewis