Fear Quotes

The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting t...

Let's say that the consensus is that our species, being the higher primates, Homo Sapiens, has been ...

Do I fear death? No, I am not afraid of being dead because there's nothing to be afraid of, I won't ...

His importance to the century just past, and therefore his status as a figure in history as well as ...

It is exactly the fear of revenge that motivates the deepest crimes, from the killing of the enemy's...

My mind is the only sanctuary that has not been stolen from me.

Without fear there cannot be courage.

When you teach them-teach them not to fear. Fear is good in small amounts, but when it is a constant...

The future will be what it will, and fretting about it will only make your fears more likely to come...

Find out what you're afraid of and go live there.

Therefore, when we neglect to fear such a brittle monstrosity, we render it powerless.

It's my petty fear of personal rejection that allows so many true evils to exist. My cowardice enabl...

The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that,...

I am an Agnostic because I am not afraid to think. I am not afraid of any god in the universe who wo...

Do you, good people, believe that Adam and Eve were created in the Garden of Eden and that they were...

I have always felt that doubt was the beginning of wisdom, and the fear of God was the end of wisdom...

The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism a...

There is something here that frightens me. When I figure out what it is that frightens me, I shall a...

We have fallen on hard times of the spirit, with many of the people more concerned with fear of evil...

Whether you like it or not, you're forced to come to the realisation that death is out there. But I ...

Here is a list of terrible things,The jaws of sharks, a vultures wingsThe rabid bite of the dogs of ...

How frightening, that one person could mean so much, so many things.

You have to be sincere in your feelings. And fear is one of those, sometimes; doubt is one of those;...

There is nothing more liberating than having your worst fear realized.

When fear rushed in, I learned how to hear my heart racing but refused to allow my feelings to sway ...

The man who believes that the secrets of the world are forever hidden lives in mystery and fear. Sup...

What is it?Nothing. I had a bad dream.What did you dream about?Nothing.Are you okay?No.He put his ar...

As long as you're scared you're on the plantation.

The world can be such a fright, but it belongs to us tonight.

It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other s...

Divorce lawyers stoke anger and fear in their clients, knowing that as long as the conflicts remain ...

The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.

Better a little with God than a whole lot without Him. Better to have fewer houses, cars, appliances...

If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.

Students of public speaking continually ask, "How can I overcomeself-consciousness and the fear that...

It never hurts a fool to appear before anaudience, for his capacity is not a capacity for feeling.

Our search for safety and contentment is endless and inexhaustible precisely because of the intrinsi...

The most dangerous enemy is that which no one fears.

Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.

I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it...

I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.

I feel it's all wrong to be nervous," said Maria. "I feel it's lack of confidence. One ought to go r...

The moment of crisis had come, and I must face it. My old fears, my diffidence, my shyness, my hopel...

Boredom is a pleasing antidote for fear

We can never go back again, that much is certain. The past is still close to us. The things we have ...

I fear that our true motivation is about oil and our own flailing economy about the failure to destr...

I don't like rats, but there's not much else I don't like. The problem with rats is they have no fea...

Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how...

I believe that fear of life brings a greater fear of death.

The filmmaking process is a very personal one to me, I mean it really is a personal kind of communic...

... A lobotomy involved some kind of rod or probe inserted through the eyesocket,the term was always...

You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of cours...

I think the world divides neatly into those who are excited by the managed induction of terror and t...

I'm so scared of dying without ever being really seen.

When people call it [depression] I always get pissed off because I always think depression sounds li...

...having a lot of money does not immunize people from suffering or fear.

Heroes are people who face down their fears. It is that simple. A child afraid of the dark who one d...

There's no shame in fear. But understand this - the coward is ruled by fear, while the hero rides it...

One day the enemy will cross the Great Green. They will bring war and tragedy to these eastern lands...

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

... in a cycle as old as tribalism, ignorance of the Other engenders fear; fear engenders hatred; ha...

I always felt that if someone shot me, it would be great for the environmental movement, because the...

Hot, bright heat filled him like some ecstatic poison, and Hartan's pony shied in terror as a wordle...

I am the One, and I see all.But the blind man in Apartment 1-A is blind in many ways, as are all hum...

I've been badly scared myself, badly, for quite a few years now. You learn to live with it.

She said...she said don't be scared, we wasn't born to be all the time scared, we was born happy, ba...

Remember, there are cookies waiting here for you.

Acknowledge your fear, odd one. Fearlessness is for the insane and the arrogant. You are neither. Th...

Then what are you? An electronic Hannibal Lector? You can't eat my liver with fava beans through a m...

Terror and pleasure are linked in us. We are a baldly miswired species, Martie. Terror delights us, ...

The dead are merely the countrymen of my future.

She blinked, sat up, and saw Chris in the bathroom doorway. He'd just gotten out the shower. His hai...

What we fear too much we often bring to pass.

Loyal companions are an unequaled grace, stanching fear before it bleeds you numb, a reliable antido...

There's no use wasting are energy being afraid of the devils, demons and things that go bump in the ...

I needed a moment to understand that I'd been dreaming, that I had come awake, and another moment to...

A fine line separates the weary recluse from the fearful hermit. Finer still is the line between her...

He wondered why it was easier to believe in a malevolent spirit than in a benign one. Sometimes it s...

When our internal reference point is the ego or self-image, we feel cut off from our source, and the...

We feel secure with things we can see or touch.

If you try to get rid of fear and anger without knowing their meaning, they will grow stronger and r...

For the moment, everything had disappeared: the church, the battle, the screams and shouts and the r...

I was a postman one Christmas and I developed a morbid fear of dogs.

There's always a period of curious fear between the first sweet-smelling breeze and the time when th...

How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we lov...

Fear is intense self-awareness.

Fear is self-awareness raised to a higher level.

With regard to ghosts, while we have never believed in them, we have always been afraid of them.

I don’t want to be told when I wake up, terrified by a dream of total annihilation, because of the H...

As I was saying, that’s the dark secret of our time, no one mentions it, but every time one opens a ...

Everything I know, everything I put in my fiction, will hurt someone somewhere as surely as it will ...

There is nothing to fear except the persistent refusal to find out the truth.

Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.

The most destructive element in the human mind is fear. Fear creates aggressiveness aggressiveness ...

Could be. I’m a pretty dangerous dude when I’m cornered.”“Yeah,” said the voice from under the table...

One of my own stray childhood fears had been to wonder what a whale might feel like had it been born...

It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms econ...

This world of ours... must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a ...

In most communities it is illegal to cry "fire" in a crowded assembly. Should it not be considered s...

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth li...