James Branch Cabell

Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself.

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absense of fear.

My greatest fear is getting bored.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear.

Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

I fear chiefly lest my expression may not be extravagant enough, may not wander far enough beyond the narrow limit of my daily experience, so as to be adequate to the truth of which I have been convinced. Extravagance! it depends on how you are yarded.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.

Fear is a useless emotion. Don’t ever make decisions based on fear. Make decisions based on hope and possibility.

What we fear doing most is usually what we most need to do.

There is only one universal passion fear.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

I am pretty fearless. You know why? Because I don’t handle fear very well; I’m not a good terrified person.

Don’t be afraid of fear. Because it sharpens you, it challenges you, it makes you stronger; and when you run away from fear, you also run away from the opportunity to be your best possible self.

Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

There’s an old German proverb to the effect that fear makes the wolf bigger than he is,and that is true.