Fear Quotes

You know I never used to be a bad flyer, but I did start to have a fear of flying after I shot a movie where I was terrorized on a plane. I made Wes Craven's 'Red Eye'. I don't think they're linked but it does make me pause and wonder if they are, so perhaps I will explore that in therapy some day.

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

I do not say think as I think, but think in my way. Fear no shadows, least of all in that great spectre of personal unhappiness which binds half the world to orthodoxy.

They were afraid, never having learned what I taught myself: Defeat the fear of death and welcome the death of fear.

As a novelist, I have a somewhat higher soapbox to stand on than most people do when it comes to talking back to the merchants of fear.

Old age is the supreme evil, for it deprives man of all pleasures while allowing his appetites to remain, and it brings with it every possible sorrow. Yet men fear death and desire old age.

I fear other actors who are not prepared. And I fear directors who are afraid.

To fight fear, act. To increase fear - wait, put off postpone.

I can't understand people calling themselves religious and being hateful. If a preacher is preaching hate, to fear God that's not religion, that's not helping humanity, that's organizing an army to defeat somebody.

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

You block your dream when you allow your fear to grow bigger than your faith.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.

The wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.

Thought is an errand boy, fear a mine of worries.

The thing I fear most is fear.

Anger elicits anger, fear elicits fear, no matter how well meaning we may be.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

The United Nations' greatest fear is that average Americans will no longer tolerate these international scandals and demand that America withdraw from the international organization.

There had to be a hysteria and a fear sent through America in order to get increased war budgets.

I'm not the type of person to live in fear. I think positively.

There is greatness in the fear of God, contentment in faith of God, and honour in humility.

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

Fear is just not a part of my life - so much so that if it's involved in somebody else's life and they're close to me, I won't be around them.

But to be the best, you must face the best. And to overcome your fear, you must deal with the best.

I fear that, in the end, the famous debate among materialists, idealists, and dualists amounts to a merely verbal dispute that is more a matter for the linguist than for the speculative philosopher.

Americans are apocalyptic by nature. The reason why is that we've always had so much, so we live in deadly fear that people are going to take it away from us.

People don't want to talk about death, just like they don't want to talk about computer security. Maybe I should have named my workstation Fear. People are so motivated by fear.

We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.

I fear only God, all praises to Him.