Fear

Fear is a common emotion.

• "We have nothing to fear but fear itself."
  • (Franklin D. Roosevelt)

• "Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger, anger leads to hate, hate leads to suffering ."
  • (Yoda in Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace)

• "Fear. Fear attracts the fearful. The strong. The weak. The innocent. The corrupt. Fear. Fear is my ally." - Darth Maul (Monologue only used in promotional clips for Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace.)

• "Fear of God is the beginning of Wisdom."
  • (Proverbs)

• "The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown."
  • H.P. Lovecraft in the 1927 essay Supernatural horror in Literature.

• "There is nothing to fear, if aggression is the result of fear, then fear is the fear of aggression. So if you are afraid of an aggressor, you are afraid of a which is afraid of you, a person ruled by his fear. And why should you be afraid of someone who is behaving like a small child in the darkness?"
  • Project Pitchfork

• "Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most."
  • Dostoyevsky

• "Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be."
  • Lactantius

• "Is it that they fear the pain of death, or could it be they fear the joy of life?"
  • Toad The Wet Sprocket, from the song Pray Your Gods

• "Never fear shadows ... that always means there is a light shining somewhere."
  • Jonathan Santos

• "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