Susan Sontag Quotes

Nothing is to be feared but fear.

Lewis obediently stared at her, and Kira tried to make her voice sound confident. "You don’t feel anything. You’re not afraid." "I am," came Vlad’s immediate reply. "If you tell him wolves are the children of the night next, I might hurt myself laughing."

We are always more afraid than we wish to be, but we can always be braver than we expect.

The way out of fear isn’t safety. It’s freedom.

There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.

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

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

I say, 'Be brave. Do it even if your ankles shake, because they will.'

Fearless is not the absence of fear. Fearless is living in spite of those things that scare you.

We may feel fear but we do not have to give in to it. We can do whatever we need and want to do, even if we have to "do it afraid." Courage is not the absence of fear; it is action in the presence of fear.

Being fearless doesn't mean living a life devoid of fear, but living a life in which our fears don't hold us back

We have nothing to fear but fear itself.

I'm constantly scared. I'm constantly fearful of what's to come and people don't realize that just because you're doing something doesn't mean that you're fearless but you get up every day and you do it. It takes a lot of courage to be real.

It needs courage to be afraid.

You want to be a hero? Learn to create certainty in the face of fear.

Fear will try to keep you from taking that first step. Don't give in to fear, do it afraid.

The thing is - fear can't hurt you any more than a dream.

I am Constantly afraid, but it's a big driving force in my life. I'm more likely to try and tackle a fear than let it control me.

There is nothing wrong with being afraid - but there is nothing more wrong than allowing that to be your master.

What is fear but courage's shadow?

Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

An hour's terror is better than a lifetime of timidity.

Fear aint in the heart of me, i learned just do it, you get courage from your fears right after you go through it.

There would be nothing to frighten you if you refused to be afraid.

A writer must teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.