Fear Quotes

So it really does have a sort of bittersweet quality. Kids like to have adventures and to believe they can fly, but there's also that fear about people leaving you.

The fear of failure is so great, it is no wonder that the desire to do right by one's children has led to a whole library of books offering advice on how to raise them.

I love overcoming challenges and fear.

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall.

Resistance is feasible even for those who are not heroes by nature, and it is an obligation, I believe, for those who fear the consequences and detest the reality of the attempt to impose American hegemony.

Roosevelt talked not only about Freedom from Fear, but also Freedom from Want.

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.

I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear.

I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.

Here's what the right-wing has in, there's no shortage of the natural resources of ignorance, apathy, hate, fear. As long as those things are in the collective conscious and unconscious, the Republicans will have some votes.