Quotes about Fear
Nothing is worse than what we can imagine.
— JM Coetzee
Dean: God exists without qualms. As we roll along this way, I am positive beyond doubt that everything will be taken care of for us - that even you, as you drive, fearful of the wheel - the thing will go along of itself and you won't go off the road and I can sleep.
— Jack Kerouac
I fear mostly my inability to capture all the things that come, I fear their mysterious source, I fear their fate, I fear me, in short. This is true…it's like finding a river of gold when you haven't even got a cup to save a cupful…you've but a thimble, and that thimble is your pathetic brain and labour and humanness.
— Jack Kerouac
I wasn't scare, I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.
— Jack Kerouac
The American police are involved in psychological warfare against those Americans who don't frighten them with imposing papers and threats. It's a Victorian police force; it peers out of musty windows and wants to inquire about everything, and can make crimes if the crimes don't exist to its satisfaction.
— Jack Kerouac
I'd rather walk than ride the airplane, I can fall on the ground flat on my face and die that way.
— Jack Kerouac
In fact I realized I had no guts anyway, which I've long known. but I have joy.
— Jack Kerouac
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, and they that lack the beginning have neither middle nor end.
— John Bunyan
Don't fear the light within. May it ignite the Sacred Flame in your soul.
— Paulo Coelho
Biblical wisdom means living a disciplined and prudent life in the fear of the Lord
— Kevin DeYoung
Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.
— Jack Kerouac