- Fear is the heart of love ---- Death Cab for Cutie - I'll follow you into the dark
- We must make an idol of our fear, and call it God. ---- Ingmar Bergman - The Seventh Seal
- La paura è la via per il Lato Oscuro. La paura conduce all'ira, l'ira all'odio, l'odio conduce alla sofferenza. ---- Star Wars: Episodio I - La minaccia fantasma
- I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. ---- Frank Herbert, Dune - Bene Gesserit Litany Against Fear
- Fear - jealousy - money - revenge - and protecting someone you love. ---- Frederick Knott - Max Halliday, listing the five important motives for murder, Dial M for Murder (1952)
- What potions have I drunk of Siren tears, / Distill'd from limbecks foul as hell within, / Applying fears to hopes, and hopes to fears, / Still losing when I saw myself to win! ---- William Shakespeare - Sonnets
- Fear is a tyrant and a despot, more terrible than the rack, more potent than the snake. ---- Edgar Wallace - The Clue of the Twisted Candle (1916)
- All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears--of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark, or speaking before a Rotary Club, and of the words "Some Assembly Required. ---- Dave Barry
- Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is. ---- German Proverb
- The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear. --- H.P. Lovecraft
- In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly. ---- Coleridge
- A man who has been in danger, / When he comes out of it forgets his fears, / And sometimes he forgets his promises. ---- Euripides - Iphigenia in Tauris (414-12 BC)
- I have almost forgot the taste of fears. / The time has been my senses would have cool'd / To hear a night shriek, and my fell of hair / Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir / As life were in't. I have supp'd full with horrors; / Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, / Cannot once start me. ---- William Shakespeare - Macbeth
- Being frightened is an experience you can't buy. ---- Anthony Price - Sion Crossing (1984)
- What we fear comes to pass more speedily than what we hope. ---- Publilius Syrus - Moral Sayings (1st C B.C.)
- Why are we scared to die? Do any of us remember being scared when we were born? ---- Trevor Kay
- A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice. ---- Edgar Watson Howe - Country Town Sayings (1911)
- Courage is not the lack of fear but the ability to face it. ---- Lt. John B. Putnam Jr. (1921-1944)
- L'origine della paura è nel futuro, e chi si è affrancato dal futuro non ha più nulla da temere. ---- Milan Kundera
- Senza immaginazione la paura non esiste. ---- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Ma più è la tema del futuro danno. ---- Ludovico Ariosto - Orlando furioso
- Dal momento che l'amore e la paura possono difficilmente coesistere, se dobbiamo scegliere fra uno dei due, è molto più sicuro essere temuti che amati. ---- Machiavelli, Il Principe
- Temer si dee di sole quelle cose c'hanno potenza di fare altrui male; de l'altre no, ché non son paurose. ---- Dante, Inferno II
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