Famous Quotes

"One had to take some action against fear when once it laid hold of one."

Rainer Maria Rilke on Fear

More quotes about Fear

• "A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."

  John F. Kennedy on Fear

• "Pick the day. Enjoy it - to the hilt. The day as it comes. People as they come... The past, I think, has helped me appreciate the present - and I don't want to spoil any of it by fretting about the future."

  Audrey Hepburn on Fear

• "I love the man that can smile in trouble, that can gather strength from distress, and grow brave by reflection. 'Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm, and whose conscience approves his conduct, will pursue his principles unto death."

  Thomas Paine on Fear

• "We fear violence less than our own feelings. Personal, private, solitary pain is more terrifying than what anyone else can inflict."

  Jim Morrison on Fear

• "What is needed, rather than running away or controlling or suppressing or any other resistance, is understanding fear that means, watch it, learn about it, come directly into contact with it. We are to learn about fear, not how to escape from it."

  Jiddu Krishnamurti on Fear

More quotes by Rainer Maria Rilke

• "I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone."

• "Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further."

• "No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger."

• "Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further."

• "The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."