Quotes

Words worth keeping

30 quotes — from Indian and world voices, in English, Hindi and Urdu — while our publisher catalog grows.

Filtered by: Fear Clear all

Fear is a phoenix. You can watch it burn a thousand times and still it will return.

— Leigh Bardugo
Fear

I have accepted fear as part of life – specifically the fear of change... I have gone ahead despite the pounding in the heart that says: turn back....

— Erica Jong
Life Change & Growth Courage & Strength Fear

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

— James Baldwin
Sadness & Pain Fear

Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.

— Marie Curie
Life Science Education & Knowledge Fear

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

— Dan Brown
Fear

Don't give in to your fears. If you do, you won't be able to talk to your heart.

— Paulo Coelho
Fear

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

— Søren Kierkegaard
Life Fear Freedom

I don’t trust anybody. Not anybody. And the more that I care about someone, the more sure I am they’re going to get tired of me and take off.

— Rainbow Rowell
Friendship Trust Fear

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear.

— Nelson Mandela
Courage & Strength Fear

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

— C.S. Lewis
Death & Loss Fear

Do not be afraid; our fateCannot be taken from us; it is a gift.

— Dante Alighieri
Faith & Religion Fear

Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.

— Jim Morrison
Courage & Strength Fear Freedom

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

— Emma Donoghue
Courage & Strength Fear

It's the questions we can't answer that teach us the most. They teach us how to think. If you give a man an answer, all he gains is a little fact. But give him a question and he'll look for his own answers.

— Patrick Rothfuss
Fear

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

— Salvador Dali
Success Fear

World quotes adapted from the Abirate/english_quotes dataset (CC BY 4.0). Indian-figure and Hindi/Urdu quotes are a curated compilation of widely-attributed public sayings.