fear

"I never "worry" about action, but only about inaction."

"Fear is the true enemy, the only enemy."

"The superior man has neither anxiety nor fear. When internal examination discovers nothing wrong, what is there to be anxious about, what is there to fear?"

"The neurotic longs to touch bottom, so at least he won't have that to worry about anymore."

"What do you mean by communal? If I speak against the terrorism, is it communal?"

"That's how a scary story works. It echoes some ancient fear. It recreates some forgotten terror. Something we'd like to think we're grown beyond. But it can still scare us to tears. It's something you…"

"The point is, we can decry the dangers we face or ignore them or even allow ourselves to be paralyzed by fear."

"When your house is burning down, you don't worry about the remodeling."

"It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades."

"We feared and hated them, perhaps more than we feared and hated the Quality who held us, for all of us were low, we were all Tasked, and we should be in union and arrayed against the Quality, if only …"

"Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail."

"Drunk, if you like; so much the worse for those who fear wine, for it is because they have bad thoughts which they are afraid the liquor will extract from their hearts."

"Simply turn them loose in the haze of their own injured psyches and they will create an enemy, greater and more malignant than any a psychologist could create for them, always hidden behind their own …"

"His mind was destitute of that dread which has been erroneously decried as if it were nothing higher than a man's animal care for his own skin: that awe of the Divine Nemesis which was felt by religio…"

"As long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from God, fear remains with us; but when we know ourselves to be the One, fear goes; of what can we be afraid?"

"Could this reaction against the personal by philosophers … be, at bottom, one of fear? … Are … bright people … blindly afraid of their own precarious identity and unspeakable vulnerability as particul…"

"Companies pay too much attention to the cost of doing something. They should worry more about the cost of not doing it."

"No chance to speak, she was over me again, clinging like a wet vine, her tongue like a frightened snake's head, searching my mouth."

"White people's fear of Black people with guns will never cease to amaze me. Probably it's because they think about what they would do were they in our place. Especially the police, who have done so mu…"

"The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is."