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Hope and fear cannot alter the season.

Don't fear your mortality, because it is this very mortality that gives meaning and depth and poignancy to all the days that will be granted to you.

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

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

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

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

Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

We have, I fear, confused power with greatness.

Do not look upon this world with fear and loathing. Bravely face whatever the gods offer.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

In the beginning, fear was the dominant motivating force.

I sincerely believe I could have wounded up in a lot of trouble if I had not been taught as a boy to fear Hell, and to believe that certain wicked acts could lead me to damnation.

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear.

We've got a daunting enough task to provide a definitive account of what happened in 9/11, without fear or favor, something that will last and will survive criticism over time. And we think we can do that with integrity in a bipartisan report.

Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it.

Fear of the unknown is a terrible fear.

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

Fear is proof of a degenerate mind.