I fear God never showed mercy to one so vile as I.

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

Fear is just not a part of my life - so much so that if it is involved in somebody else life and they are close to me, I won't be around them.

The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbours will say.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

There is a confidence that comes from youth and not knowing better. But there comes a point, as an actor, when you do know better, and that is when the fear starts.

My father was against the death penalty, and that was hard in the Son of Sam summer when fear was driving the desire for the death penalty.

Because of the lack of education on AIDS, discrimination, fear, panic, and lies surrounded me.

The universal human laws - need, love for the beloved, fear, hunger, periodic exaltation, the kindness that rises up naturally in the absence of hunger/fear/pain - are constant, predictable, reliable, universal, and are merely ornamented with the details of local culture.

Let them hate so long as they fear.

The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.

Fear of the future is worse than one present fortune.

Most fear stems from sin to limit one sins, one must assuredly limit one fear, thereby bringing more peace to one spirit.

Over the past few years, the road to confrontation has shown its consequences: loss of innocent lives, destruction and fear. Most costly, however, was the loss of hope. The most precious gift that you can present to your peoples over the coming weeks is renewed hope born out of tangible progress on the ground.

I do rather be two strokes ahead going into the last day than two strokes behind. Having said that, it is probably easier to win coming from behind. There is no fear in chasing. There is fear in being chased.

Try a thing you have not done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time to figure out whether you like it or not.

Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.

I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.

You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's Red Eye. I do not think they are linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.