Fear Quotes - Page 36

• Men always try to make virtues of their weaknesses. Fear of death and fear of life both become piety.

  H. L. Mencken

  Men, Atheism, Trying

  H.L. Mencken (2013). “Minority Report”, p.54, Knopf

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• Nothing's beautiful from every point of view.

  Horace

  Beautiful, Views, Atheism

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• The last 100 years of research into the human brain...sees the brain as an organ that works by physical principles just like the other organs in the body...our emotions and higher callings, such as religion, as well as our grubby low-level physical systems like stereo vision and motor control, are products of a machine.

  Steven Pinker

  Years, Brain, Vision

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• It is difficult to imagine anyone having any real hopes for the human race in the face of the fact that the great majority of men still believe that the universe is run by a gaseous vertebrate of astronomical heft and girth, who is nevertheless interested in the minutest details of the private conduct of even the meanest man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Running, Real, Believe

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• My hands are small, but they're not yours, they are my own... I am never broken.

  Jewel

  Hands, Broken, Atheism

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• Society has traditionally always tried to find scapegoats, well here I am.

  Marilyn Manson

  Here I Am, Atheism, Rage

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• If your reality is the same as my reality, then you're in trouble.

  Marilyn Manson

  Reality, Atheism, Trouble

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• I am Zarathustra the Godless: where shall I find my equal? All those who give themselves their own will and renounce all submission, they are my equals.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Giving, Atheism, Rage

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• Do you think in many ways, sir, you're the victim of circumstance now?

  Peter Jennings

  Thinking, Atheism, Way

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• What you hold in your hand is proof of man's power - against which our strength means nothing. It has the force of 100 spears. I warn you, man's ingenuity goes hand-in-hand with their cruelty. No creature is as devious or violent.

  Charlton Heston

  Mean, Men, Hands

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• Nothing is bigger than life. There's nothing noble in death. What's noble about never seeing the sunshine again? What's noble about having your legs and arms blown off? What's noble about being an idiot? What's noble about being blind and deaf and dumb? What's noble about being dead?

  Dalton Trumbo

  Sunshine, Dumb, Atheism

  Dalton Trumbo (2007). “Johnny Got His Gun”, p.111, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• Lies are the mortar that binds the savage individual man into the social masonry.

  H. G. Wells

  Lying, Men, Atheism

  Love and Mr Lewisham (1900) ch. 23

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• Since most of our fears are based on dark imaginings, it is vital for us to dwell on our magnificent obsessions and desired results - to look at where we want to go, as opposed to that troubled place where we may have been or may still be hiding.

  Denis Waitley

  Dark, May, Want

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• Fears are a complete waste of your time. Nine times out of ten, whatever you're afraid of is not dangerous or life threatening. In fact, it's probably not even real.

  Sean Stephenson

  Real, Waste, Facts

  Sean Stephenson (2009). “Get Off Your "But": How to End Self-Sabotage and Stand Up for Yourself”, p.66, John Wiley and Sons

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• Everything you do is triggered by an emotion of either desire or fear.

  Brian Tracy

  Inspirational, Life, Desire

  Twitter post from Sep 11, 2014

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• The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.

  Carl Jung

  Nature, Men, Compassion

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• There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

  Robert Bly

  Health, Men, Age

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• One of the oddities about being Judy Garland's daughter was that everyone treated my mother with such awe that they would never have asked me the normal questions kids get about their moms.

  Lorna Luft

  Mom, Daughter, Mother

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• He who would acquire fame must not show himself afraid of censure. The dread of censure is the death of genius.

  William Gilmore Simms

  Criticism, Genius, Fame

  William Gilmore Simms (1853). “Egeria: Or Voices of Thought and Counsel, for the Woods and Wayside”, p.25

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• Men the most infamous are fond of fame, And those who fear not guilt yet start at shame.

  Charles Churchill

  Men, Guilt, Shame

  Charles Churchill (1822). “The Poems of Charles Churchill”, p.193

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• Fear comes from the mind, love comes from your heart; listen to the heart.

  Rajneesh

  Heart, Mind Love, Mind

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• The fear that things may change tomorrow... Somebody may die, you may go bankrupt, your job may be taken away. There are a thousand and one things which may change. You are burdened with fears and fears, and none of them are valid - because yesterday also you were full of all these fears, unnecessarily. Things may have changed, but you are still alive. And man has an immense capacity to adjust himself in any situation.

  Rajneesh

  Jobs, Taken, Men

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• The greatest discovery in life, the most precious treasure, is of awareness. Without it you are bound to be in darkness, full of fears. And you will go on creating new fears - there is no end to it. You will live in fear, you will die in fear, and you will never be able to taste something of freedom. And it was all the time your potential; any moment you could have claimed it, but you never claimed it.

  Rajneesh

  Discovery, Creating, Darkness

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• What kind of living can be out of fear? Once the armor is dropped you can live out of love, you can live in a mature way. The fully matured man has no fear, no defense; he is psychologically completely open and vulnerable.

  Rajneesh

  Love You, Men, Defense

  Rajneesh Osho (2003). “The World Beyond Time”, p.159, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd

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• A mature person should disconnect himself from anything that is connected with fear. That`s how maturity comes. Just watch all your acts, all your beliefs, and find out whether they are based in reality, in experience, or based in fear. And anything based in fear has to be dropped immediately, without a second thought. It is your armor. I cannot melt it. I can simply show you how you can drop it.

  Rajneesh

  Maturity, Reality, Mature Person

  Rajneesh Osho (2003). “The World Beyond Time”, p.160, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd

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