It is fear that I am most afraid of.

The thing I fear most is fear.

I was afraid and did not know what I feared, which is the worst kind of fear.

In the end, what we fear will not go away, for it indicates what we must go through in order to awaken, become more genuine, and live more fully. The problem is that we tend to be most afraid of what our own souls require of us. Often our deepest fear is that we might become who we are intended to be, who we already are at our core. For becoming who we truly are requires the greatest amount of change.

The worst of all fears is the fear of living

The only thing I am afraid of is fear.

Then, by dint of seeing the days born in the morning and miscarrying in the evening, I became afraid to die, and this fear was my first passion.

was deathly afraid for my wife. I felt real fear. Worse.

According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.

By this time I was thoroughly terrified, not so much fearing death as the treachery of my own kind.

Looking back I see that I was always afraid of something: of the dark, of displeasing people, of failure. Anything I accomplished had to be done across a barrier of fear. ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

I live in fear of being alive.

You know that your truth, the one that you hide… is the thing you are most afraid of.

She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it.