50 interesting quotes and aphorisms about human fear

Hello dear readers! Today I want to bring to your attention quotes about fear.

Perhaps the statements of other, smart, famous, brilliant and simply great people will help you realize the cause of your anxieties. And then deal with them.

After all, when an insight occurs, that is, an inner insight that occurs quite unexpectedly, a lot turns out to be clear and falls into place.

Top 50 quotes and aphorisms about human fear and doubt

  1. Whoever knows the fullness of life knows no fear of death. Fear of death is only the result of an unfulfilled life. Franz Kafka
  2. Doubt of any kind can only be ended by action. Thomas Carlyle
  3. Fear makes people think. Aristotle
  4. Fear is not in danger at all, it is in ourselves. Stendhal
  5. Fearing the future, you rob yourself of the present. Ilya Shevelev
  6. Fear is the state’s greatest weapon. When people are afraid, they obey. Like children who follow you if you promise them protection. Adolf Gitler
  7. Those who live in fear die of fear. Leonardo da Vinci
  8. Majestic natures suffer from doubts about their own greatness. Friedrich Nietzsche
  9. Our fear is the source of courage for our enemies. Mann Thomas
  10. Fear is not a weakness. Now, if fear makes you retreat, if you save your strength and as a result decrease yourself, this is weakness. Evgeny Leonov
  11. Who is scared is half beaten. Alexander Suvorov
  12. He who despises fear has become too proud. Corneille Pierre
  13. The fear of danger is always more terrible than the danger that has already come, and the expectation of evil is ten thousand times worse than the evil itself. Defoe Daniel
  14. Only one person cannot be happy. Something always gnaws at us, torments us, gnaws at us. Pierre de Ronsard
  15. The fear of making a mistake is the door that locks us into the castle of mediocrity. If we overcome this fear, we will take an important step towards our freedom. Paulo Coelho
  16. Whoever starts with certainty will end up doubting; and whoever begins with doubt will end with certainty. Francis Bacon
  17. If you have doubts and do not know what to do, imagine that you will die by the evening, and the doubt is immediately resolved: it becomes clear that it is a matter of duty and that personal desires. Lev Tolstoy
  18. Fear of flies — do not open your mouth. Harry Simanovich
  19. Fear… the prophets and those who are disposed to lay down their lives for the truth. Usually they, along with their own, give the lives of many others. Sometimes even before you give yours. And sometimes — instead of giving yours. Umberto Eco
  20. Where there is no danger, there can be no glory. Corneille Pierre
  21. Man fears only what he does not know. It is knowledge that conquers all fear. Vissarion Belinsky
  22. Fear breeds a desire to control everything around you. Including your future. Alexander Sviyash
  23. Fear of tomorrow keeps today in fear. Lyubov Istomin
  24. It is better to be confident when you are wrong than to be doubtful when you are right. Janusz Wisniewski
  25. The main thing is not to learn to read. It is much more important to learn to doubt what you read. George Carlin
  26. The only obstacle to the realization of our plans for tomorrow may be our today’s doubts. Franklin Roosevelt
  27. Cruelty is always the result of fear, weakness and cowardice. Claude Helvetsky
  28. The feeling of fear and the feeling of danger belong to different spheres. The first — to the sphere of instincts, the second — to the sphere of reason. The first must be suppressed, the second must be developed. Ilya Shevelev
  29. We hope approximately, but we are afraid exactly. Paul Valery
  30. He who is prone to shame is also prone to fear. Harun of Agatsar
  31. Fear in small doses stimulates, in large doses it paralyzes. Ilya Shevelev
  32. The last degree of despair is when you doubt even that you exist. Emil Cioran
  33. We constantly doubt what we see, and have long ceased to believe our own eyes. Tilda Swinton
  34. Caution is never too much. Horace
  35. Failures are the result of fear, peace, effeminacy and carelessness. Eliminating fear creates confidence and abundance. Stand up and arm yourself, let the weak receive alms! Henry Ford
  36. Doubting yourself is a common thing. Self-doubt is the real pain. Only such skepticism leads to dizziness. Emil Cioran
  37. The noblest kind of fear known to people is fear for the fate of another. Rudyard Kipling
  38. Without suffering and doubt, there can be no full-fledged human personality. Sinclair Lewis
  39. The desire for power is born of fear. Those who are not afraid of their neighbors see no need to dominate them. Bertrand Russell
  40. The fear of doing something shameful is courage. The same courage is the ability to patiently endure the unworthy actions of others towards us. Ben Johnson
  41. He who mocks others is himself afraid of the ridicule of others. Ryunosuke Akutagawa
  42. A fish that sees a hook in every worm will not live long. Zbigniew Holodyuk
  43. The only way to overcome your fears is to laugh at them. Olga Anina
  44. Even if one is supposed to look up to one’s teachers, it is still important to learn to question their authority. Kazuo Ishiguro
  45. Doubt is easier to infect than faith. Leonid Andreev
  46. On your deathbed, you are relieved to see that almost all your fears were completely in vain. Krzysztof Konkolewski
  47. We are afraid of everything, as befits mortals, and we want everything, as if we were rewarded with immortality. François de La Rochefoucauld
  48. Those who are afraid of failure limit their activities. Henry Ford
  49. There are two kinds of fools: those who doubt nothing and those who doubt everything. Charles Joseph de Ligne
  50. If you doubt anything, the best thing is to become like a float: dive and find out who is pulling the line. Julio Cortazar

Completion

In conclusion, I would like to remind you that, probably, only the dead have no fear. After all, it is the natural instinct of every living being. Therefore, if you feel anxiety within yourself, you should not be guilty and ashamed.

I hope the selection of aphorisms that we shared will inspire you to change for the better. And, of course, they will deprive them of doubts and fears.

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The material was prepared by a psychologist, Gestalt therapist, Zhuravina Alina

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