Fear Quotes

Fear... is forward. No one is afraid of yesterday.

I adore life but I don't fear death. I just prefer to die as late as possible.

I'm a woman who carries around all these layers of fear and vulnerability.

In morals what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Democracy is stronger than terrorism, and we will not cower to the terrorists' campaign of fear.

Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.

Hope and fear cannot alter the season.

I nearly die of fear before I go on stage. Something wicked. I can't eat a thing the day before a gig.

The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity.

I have always loved to use fear, to take it and comprehend it and make it work and consolidate a situation where I was afraid and take it whole and work from there.

We should laugh before being happy, for fear of dying without having laughed.

Fear is natural. Be with it.

Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us.

To good and true love fear is forever affixed.

Events that are predestined require but little management. They manage themselves. They slip into place while we sleep, and suddenly we are aware that the thing we fear to attempt, is already accomplished.

I write entirely to find out what I'm thinking, what I'm looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear.

Only a fool does not fear actors, but you can't beat them, and if you can't beat them, join them, as they say. As I've got older I've become very interested in that part of the work.

My own position is so far on the obsessive side of preparation and professionalism that I fear my point of view is not going to be shared by anyone.

Perhaps we don't need these religious concoctions to pillow the fear of death. Just the fact that there is an unknown, and something greater, can bring a feeling of peace. That's enough for me.

My biggest fear in life is fear.

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.

You can't operate a company by fear, because the way to eliminate fear is to avoid criticism. And the way to avoid criticism is to do nothing.

Paramount is the need to secure human rights. The form of rule should be such that the citizen does not have to fear the State, but gives it direction and confidently participates in its administration.

We must have an America in which White men and women can live and work, in their homes and in the streets of our cities, without fear.

When desire dies, fear is born.

We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all.

Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness - perhaps unimaginative of me.

The library is seen as a force for self improvement and the pursuit of knowledge. I fear that in many cases this is no longer true, if it ever was.