All Quotes By Tag: Fear

“Please give it up. Fear it no less than the sensual passion, because it, too, may take up all your time and deprive you of your health, peace of mind and happiness in life.[Having himself spent a lifetime unsuccessfully trying to prove Euclid’s postulate that parallel lines do not meet, Farkas discouraged his son János from any further attempt.]”

“But time passes. Fear becomes a memory. Terror becomes routine; it loses its grip.”

“Sie litten alle unter der Angst, keine Zeit für alles zu haben, und wussten nicht, dass Zeit haben nichts anderes heißt, als keine Zeit für alles zu haben.”

“So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox…”

“The lives of all people flow through time, and, regardless of how brutal one moment may be, how filled with grief or pain or fear, time flows through all lives equally.”

“Trust is not a gasoline-soaked blanket that succumbs to the matches of betrayal, never able to be used for its warmth again; it’s a tapestry that wears thin in places, but can be patched over if you have the right materials, circumstances, and patience to repair it. If you don’t, you’re always the one who feels the coldest when winter comes.”

“On close inspection, we shall find that religion, and not fear, has ever been the cause of the long-lived prosperity of an absolute government.”

“It is fear that makes you believe that you are living and that you will be dead.What we do not want is the fear to come to an end. That is why we have invented all these new minds, new sciences,new talks, therapies, choiceless awareness and various other gimmicks.”

“We all have our fears. Anyone who says otherwise is probably scared of admitting it.”

“Fear is felt by writers at every level. Anxiety accompanies the first word they put on paper and the last.”

“Fear is found in the unknown. The more you learn, the less fear you will have. Never stop learning.”

“A life lived in fear is no life at all.”

“No bravery is found in acting when you are not scared. Bravery is found in acting in the presence of fear.”

“Beyond your fear, beyond your hesitation, beyond your doubt, your dreams are waiting. They have been waiting all along for you to begin your journey towards them. If you want to reach your dreams, you have to move beyond a place of fear.”

“You are more powerful than your fear.”