Fear Quotes

We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be a...

He who has overcome his fears will truly be free.

Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil.

For there are two reasons why human beings face danger calmly: they may have no experience of it, or...

All terrible things are more terrible if they give us no chance of retrieving a blunder—either no ch...

Young players need freedom of expression to develop as creative players... they should be encouraged...

Some dangers are so spectacular and so much beyond normal experience that the mind refuses to accept...

Fear, like love, is difficult to explain after it has subsided, probably because it draws away the v...

The best work that anybody ever writes is the work that is on the verge of embarrassing him, always.

But can we, should we, let apprehensions about the future immobilize us in the present?

From now on it is not dying we must fear, but living.

It is such a supreme folly to believe that nuclear weapons are deadly only if they're used. The fact...

While we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness the weight of that silence will chok...

When I dare to be powerful, to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and...

For the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house. They may allow us to temporarily bea...

and when we speak we are afraidour words will not be heardnor welcomedbut when we are silentwe are s...

It is not power that corrupts but fear. Fear of losing power corrupts those who wield it and fear of...

Within a system which denies the existence of basic human rights, fear tends to be the order of the ...

Fear walks through the City, fear without name, without shape. All men feel it and none dare to spea...

There is fear hanging in the air of the sleeping halls, and the air of the streets. Fear walks throu...

She saw the faces streaming past her, the faces made alike by fear—fear as a common denominator, fea...

She saw the faces streaming past her, the faces made alike by fear—fear as a common denominator, fea...

Our personal fears and emotions are at times stronger than public danger. By keeping them secret, we...

On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're goin...

There is a strange moment in time, after something horrible happens, when you know it's true, but yo...

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

I saw that all the things I feared and which feared me had nothing good or bad in them save in so fa...

When we are taught that safety lies always with sameness, then difference, of any kind, will appear ...

The power of patriarchy has been to make maleness feared and to make men feel that it is better to b...

But many of us seek community solely to escape the fear of being alone. Knowing how to be solitary i...

A generous heart is always open, always ready to receive our going and coming. In the midst of such ...

Those who choose to walk on love's path are well served if they have a guide. That guide can enable ...

Usually adult males who are unable to make emotional connections with the women they chose to be int...

I lived with this tremendous fear of failure because my father was a playwright and a director, and ...

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

Do not fear mistakes. You will know failure. Continue to reach out.

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both di...

...victory does not come to men who listen to their fears.

You will not say how you are haunted by the faces of the men you killed, how in their last gasp of l...

Oh the madness of battle! We fear it, we celebrate it, the poets sing of it, and when it fills the b...

Do not fear death so much but rather the inadequate life.

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty.

All forms of fear produce fatigue.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin, more even than death.

Love is something far more than desire for sexual intercourse; it is the principal means of escape f...

Men fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth -- more than ruin -- more even than death.... Th...

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is ...

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the i...

Collective fear stimulates herd instinct, and tends to produce ferocity toward those who are not reg...

Conquer the world by intelligence, and not merely by being slavishly subdued by the terror that come...

In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.

Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.

It frightens me, the awful truth, of how sweet life can be...

Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that th...

I am all in a sea of wonders. I doubt; I fear; I think strange things, which I dare not confess to m...

Even if she be not harmed, her heart may fail her in so much and so many horrors; and hereafter she ...

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that ...

The sorrow of God lies in our fear of Him, our fear of life, and our fear of ourselves. He anguishes...

Charles de Foucauld, the found of the Little Brothers of Jesus, wrote a single sentence that's ahad ...

Shame is the most powerful, master emotion. It's the fear that we're not good enough.

It is easy to see how quickly expectations become layered, competitive and conflicting. This is how ...

When I look at narcissism through the vulnerability lens, I see the shame-based fear of being ordina...

Worrying about scarcity is our culture's version of post-traumatic stress. It happens when we've bee...

After doing this work or the past twelve years and watching scarcity ride roughshod over our familie...

Numb the dark and you numb the light.

Given the dark fears we feel when we experience loss, nothing is more generous and loving than the w...

Fear of the Dark I’ve always been prone to worry and anxiety, but after I became a mother, negotiati...

People are afraid to merge on freeways in Los Angeles. This is the first thing I hear when I come ba...

I needed something--the distraction of another life--to alleviate fear.

One day you're waiting for the sky to fallThe next you're dazzled by the beauty of it all

Don't fear failure. — Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even ...

and yet…' he said, 'and yet, father, I am terribly afraid. I am afraid that the things the Landlord ...

Hatred has its pleasures. It is therefore often the compensation bywhich a frightened man reimburses...

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.

No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being a...

If we really believe what we say we believe- if we really think that home is elsewhere and that this...

You are guilty of no evil, Ransom of Thulcandra, except a little fearfulness. For that, the journey ...

What lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have...

Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead.

The only thing we have to fear on this planet is man.

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his econo...

Forget the self and you will fear nothing, in whatever level or awareness you find yourself to be.

Don't be afraid of being scared. To be afraid is a sign of common sense. Only complete idiots are no...

I am convinced that the deepest desire within each of us is to be liberated from the controlling inf...

You couldn't speak to fear, couldn't tell it the truth: Fear lived in your bones.

Just take the weapon you hold in your hand and drive it through his heart," Valentine's voice was so...

Perhaps there isn’t anything Alec is afraid of.”Magnus glanced at Alec and raised his eyebrows. “Boo...

We are all the pieces of what we remember. We hold in ourselves the hopes and fears of those who lov...

Tessa craned her head back to look at Will. “You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading...

And that someone would pay. Revenge is a cold bedfellow, Diana had said, but Emma didn't believe tha...

Everyone is afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people because...

Emma, everyone's afraid of something. We fear things because we value them. We fear losing people be...

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be c...

He who is overly attached to his family members experiences fear and sorrow, for the root of all gri...

Her endeavor was misguided and wrong and maybe plain crazy, akin to someone waking up one day and de...

There is nothing that teaches you more than regrouping after failure ad moving on. Yet most people a...

The thing that I fear discriminating against is humor and truth.