Fear

"To him who is in fear, everything rustles."

"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself."

"You are afraid to die, and you’re afraid to live. What a way to exist."

"The scariest moment is always just before you start."

"Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win."

"Our civilization is a civilization of the absurd, of blood, of nothingness. It is a civilization made up of things you can't think about without being sick."

"Human existance is so fragile a thing and expsed to such dangers that I cannot love without trembling."

"People are afraid of themselves, of their own reality; their feelings most of all."

"Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes."

"The things that I pray for, I am afraid of"

"The condition of man... is a condition of war of everyone against everyone."

"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."

"You can only be afraid of what you think you know."

"The fears we don't face become our limits."

"Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear."

"Man is not worried by real problems so much as by his imagined anxieties about real problems."

"One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again."

"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

"Courage is knowing what not to fear."

"To fight fear, act. To increase fear—wait, put off, postpone."

"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."

"Be careful what you ask for, because you just might get it."

"Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."