We invent what we love, and what we fear.

 —John Irving

The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown.

—H.P. Lovecraft

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

—Marilyn Ferguson

Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear.

—Zora Neale Hurston

Fear is that little darkroom where negatives are developed.

—Michael Pritchard

Remember that fear always lurks behind perfectionism. Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

 —David M. Burns

One need not a chamber to be haunted; / One need not be a house; / The brain has corridors surpassing / Material place.

 —Emily Dickinson

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you.

 —Eric Hoffer

There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls.

 —George Carlin

Fear is the tax that conscience pays to guilt.

 —George Sewell

Courage is fear that has said its prayers.

 —Dorothy Bernard

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

—Frances Moore Lappe

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself.

—Publilius Syrus

At first cock-crow the ghosts must go / Back to their quiet graves below.

 —Theodosia Garrison