Fear Quotes

Sometimes when you least expect it, the tables turn and that scary feeling that has taken hold of you for so long somehow turns into hope

Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd when he stands before the king whose hand is to be laid upon him in honour.

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

The public is not to see where power lies, how it shapes policy, and for what ends. Rather, people are to hate and fear one another.

In mine opinion, love is fitter than fear, gentleness better than beating, to bring up a child rightly in learning.

Fear of failure must never be a reason not to try something.

You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not a natural drive - it's born out of fear of failure. Which helps in Hollywood.

He wore his fear on his skin for everyone to see.

I think the willfully unimaginative see more monsters. They are often more afraid.

There's nothing in the sea this fish would fear. Other fish run from bigger things. That's their instinct. But this fish doesn't run from anything. He doesn't fear.

Fear is not a good teacher. The lessons of fear are quickly forgotten.

Men who fear demons see demons everywhere.

People wish to learn to swim and at the same time to keep one foot on the ground.

Although you hadn't asked why, it had less to do with you not noticing than with you not wanting to hear the answer.

The light of a new day always chases the shadows of the night away, and shows us that the shape of our fears is only the ghost of our own minds.

When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay.

Irrepressible curiosity vied with an instinctive fear.

The strike, the boycott, the refusal to serve, the ability to paralyze the functioning of a complex social structure-these remain potent weapons against the most fearsome state or corporate power.

Hatred is never anything but fear - if you feared no one, you would hate no one.

Never turn your back on fear. It should always be in front of you, like a thing that might have to be killed.

Fear is the cheapest room in the house.

Kate Daniels, deadly swordmaster. Fear my twitching pinkie.

Don't let the fear of the thorn keep you from the rose.

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.

I had a fear of being alone.

Why am I compelled to write? Because the writing saves me from this complacency I fear. Because I have no choice.

You'll be scared! Sure you'll be scared. Who wouldn't fear having their head completely blown off.

Do something. Anything. You're alive, and you'll only be for a few decades, and then it's done. You'll be in the ground, worm food. Make something and don't let fear consume you.

[A difficult childhood gave me] a kind of cocky confidence. ... I could never have so little that I hadn't had less. It took away my fear.

So much of 'normal, civilized' life is bull that you can't imagine... What frightens you, doesn't frighten me, what frightens me, you'd laugh at.

Fear is the contradiction of faith. Faith says, Whatever it is, it'll be okay because of God.

The only thing I'm afraid of is a life without you, Pigeon.

I work with many jazz artists as Miles Davis, Laughlin, etc.. One of the things all these artists had in common is that they had no fear.

The human emotional system can be broken down into roughly two elements: fear and love. Love is of the soul. Fear is of the personality.

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

Fear is going to be a player in your life, but you get to decide how much.

Love can no more continue without a constant motion than fire can; and when once you take hope and fear away, you take from it its very life and being.

In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.

So we can see we must substitute faith for fear, for fear is only inverted faith; it is faith in evil instead of good.

I think so much of neoliberalism and capitalism has caused people to live in a state of greed, fear and consumption that is covering up so much of what we really want.

Mr. Clarke played the King all evening as though under constant fear that someone else was about to play the Ace.

No longer forward or behind I look in hope or fear, But grateful, take the good I find, The best of now and here.

Love is always creative, fear always destructive.

We cannot abandon this rabbit hole for fear of a traumatic encounter with our own culture.

My biggest fear as an actor is being involved in something mediocre, or being mediocre myself.

When accepting or preparing for a role, fear is the motivating factor.

Don't let your fear grow bigger than your faith.

One has fear in front of a goat, in back of a mule, and on every side of a fool

I love the unknown. I think because it brings fear, and to embrace fear is the best feeling.

In order to climb properly on big peak one must free oneself of fear. This means you must write yourself off before any big climb. You must say to yourself, I may die here.