Ray Bradbury Quotes

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

Fear is natural. Be with it.

I have this fear of clowns, so I think that if I surround myself with them, it will ward off all evil.

Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.

Fear of things invisible in the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.

Writing is a fine therapy for people who are perpetually scared of nameless threats... for jittery people.

A lot of my work has been about stuff I've been frightened of: cliffs, explosions, meteorites, that kind of stuff. I would have been this trembling blob of fear if I hadn't got into making art, which is a good way of deferring it.

Fear is often our immediate response to uncertainty. There's nothing wrong with experiencing fear. They key is not to get stuck in it.

I find the whole idea of religion overwhelming and frightening and not for me.

It's kind of scary making a faith-based film.

I started getting afraid of dying. I don't have any religion and I wanted to understand something about these greater powers without anthropomorphizing it.

All humans have fear, and those of us who are fortunate have faith.

Worry is the facade of taking action when prayer really is.

Where there is fear there is no religion.

Religion is based, I think, primarily and mainly upon fear.

Worry and faith just don't mix.

Whistling to keep myself from being afraid.

Nothing is so much to be feared as fear. Atheism may comparatively be popular with God himself.

Fear is how you lose your life...a little bit at a time...What we give to fear, we take away from...faith.

Prayers out of, very often, not the most religious part of me, but the most anxious part of me, the most desperately loving, fearing part of me.

Terror is everywhere the beginning of religion.

You're dealing immense, acute amounts of fear, which makes the rest of life a little bit easier. You don't sweat the small stuff so much.

Life is made of fear. Some people eat fear soup three times a day. Some people eat fear soup all the meals there are. I eat it sometimes. When they bring me fear soup to eat, I try not to eat it, I try to send it back. But sometimes I'm too afraid to and have to eat it anyway.

Sleep makes the silence and the terrible fear go by more quickly, helps pass the time, since it's impossible to kill.

God wants to cast out the fear and doubt in your life. Go before Him right now and say, "Lord, this is what I am afraid of ..."