On Fear Quotes

“Fear is always in relation to something; it does not exist by itself. There is fear of what happened yesterday in relation to the possibility of its repetition tomorrow; there is always a fixed point from which relationship takes place.

How does fear come into this? I had pain yesterday; there is the memory of it and I do not want it again tomorrow. Thinking about the pain of yesterday, thinking which involves the memory of yesterday’s pain, projects the fear of having pain again tomorrow. So it is thought that brings about fear. Thought breeds fear; thought also cultivates pleasure. To understand fear you must also understand pleasure – they are interrelated; without understanding one you cannot understand the other. This means that one cannot say ‘I must only have pleasure and no fear’; fear is the other side of the coin which is called pleasure.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, On Fear: Krishnamurti's Profound Teachings on Understanding and Overcoming Hidden Fears, Dependence, and Attachment

“Fear is one of the greatest problems in life. A mind that is caught in fear lives in confusion, in conflict, and therefore must be violent, distorted, and aggressive. It dare not move away from its own patterns of thinking, and this breeds hypocrisy. Until we are free from fear, we may climb the highest mountain, invent every kind of God, but we will remain in darkness.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, On Fear: Krishnamurti's Profound Teachings on Understanding and Overcoming Hidden Fears, Dependence, and Attachment

“But to run away from fear is only to increase it. One of the major causes of fear is that we do not want to face ourselves as we are.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, On Fear: Krishnamurti's Profound Teachings on Understanding and Overcoming Hidden Fears, Dependence, and Attachment

“we never actually listen to what somebody else is saying. We are always translating what others are saying.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, On Fear: Krishnamurti's Profound Teachings on Understanding and Overcoming Hidden Fears, Dependence, and Attachment

“Inwardly we are whirlpools of misery and mischief and therefore, to be regarded outwardly as a great figure is very gratifying.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, On Fear: Krishnamurti's Profound Teachings on Understanding and Overcoming Hidden Fears, Dependence, and Attachment

“When you compare yourself with another, ideologically, psychologically, or even physically, there is the striving to become that; and there is the fear that you may not. It is the desire to fulfil and you may not be able to fulfil. Where there is comparison there must be fear.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, On Fear: Krishnamurti's Profound Teachings on Understanding and Overcoming Hidden Fears, Dependence, and Attachment

“but if you follow what the psychologist says or what I say, you are understanding our theories, our dogmas, our knowledge; you are not understanding yourself.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, On Fear: Krishnamurti's Profound Teachings on Understanding and Overcoming Hidden Fears, Dependence, and Attachment

“One of the functions of thought is to be occupied all the time with something. Most of us want to have our minds continually occupied so that we are prevented from seeing ourselves as we actually are. We are afraid to be empty. We are afraid to look at our fears.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, On Fear: Krishnamurti's Profound Teachings on Understanding and Overcoming Hidden Fears, Dependence, and Attachment

“The saint who seeks a position in regard to his saintliness is as aggressive as the chicken pecking in the farmyard.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, On Fear: Krishnamurti's Profound Teachings on Understanding and Overcoming Hidden Fears, Dependence, and Attachment

“The movement from certainty to uncertainty is what I call fear.”
― Jiddu Krishnamurti, On Fear: Krishnamurti's Profound Teachings on Understanding and Overcoming Hidden Fears, Dependence, and Attachment

“You can only watch the movement of fear when you are not remembering past fears and watching with those memories.”
― J. Krishnamurti, On Fear: Krishnamurti's Profound Teachings on Understanding and Overcoming Hidden Fears, Dependence, and Attachment

“When you are confronted with something immediately there is no fear. It is only when thought comes in that there is fear.”
― J. Krishnamurti, On Fear: Krishnamurti's Profound Teachings on Understanding and Overcoming Hidden Fears, Dependence, and Attachment