Fear Quotes

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.

There can be no security where there is fear.

Gun crime is a major cause of fear and distress throughout the UK. The problem is deeply entrenched in a wide range of social and cultural factors and therefore not an isolated issue.

I fear the Greeks, even when they bring gifts.

Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

I am consumed with the fear of failing. Reaching deep down and finding confidence has made all my dreams come true.

Fear is the passion of slaves.

A star on a movie set is like a time bomb. That bomb has got to be defused so people can approach it without fear.

Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

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

That might have a lot to do with it, but you know, I probably don't show fear, but I suffer from fear like everyone else.

A writer of fiction lives in fear. Each new day demands new ideas and he can never be sure whether he is going to come up with them or not.

Our party must continue to strike fear in the heart of the white man, our real enemy!

The fear for a network is the viewer gets tired of you. Not that you lost any credibility, but they get tired of you.

I woke up full of hate and fear the day before the most recent peace march in San Francisco. This was disappointing: I'd hoped to wake up feeling somewhere between Virginia Woolf and Wavy Gravy.

Fear is not a lasting teacher of duty.

The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people.

In the ring, I never really knew fear.

We've begun to put fear into those whites who think they can do anything they want to a black person and get away with it.

When women hold off from marrying men, we call it independence. When men hold off from marrying women, we call it fear of commitment.

Fear is exciting for me.

I took a Fear of Flying class, and I always missed the class, because I was always flying.

Death in itself is nothing; but we fear to be we know not what, we know not where.