01.13.06
Fear Quotes
Fear Quotes
Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
- Sir Francis Bacon, Essays [1625], “Of Death”
There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.
- Cyril Connolly
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.
- Nelson Mandela
For as children tremble and fear everything in the blind darkness, so we in the light sometimes fear what is no more to be feared than the things children in the dark hold in terror and imagine will come true.
- Titus Lucretius Carus [99-55 B.C.], De Rerum Natura, bk. III, l. 87
