Fear Quotes

Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us.

I won't allow myself to have tremendous fear.

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

The injury that we do to a man must be such that we need not fear his vengeance.

When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.

At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.

Fear has nothing to do with cowardice. A fellow is only yellow when he lets his fear make him quit.

We've lost our city. I fear it's potentially like Pompeii.

Learn to reverence night and to put away the vulgar fear of it, for, with the banishment of night from the experience of man, there vanishes as well a religious emotion, a poetic mood, which gives depth to the adventure of humanity.

Excessive fear is always powerless.

You live with the fear people might find out. Then you actually have the courage to tell people and they go, I don't think you are gay. It's enough to drive you crazy.

We manage the fear, I manage the fear, but it certainly takes its toll, the strain does.

Most of us harbour a significant amount of subconscious fear about death, and act out of this fear in our daily lives.

I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.

Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it fear of losing ourselves? Until we do lose ourselves there is no hope of finding ourselves.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

The American people fear there is some gouging going on.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

We should face reality and our past mistakes in an honest, adult way. Boasting of glory does not make glory, and singing in the dark does not dispel fear.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquillity of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

My fear now is of cliche, of complacency, of not being able to feel authenticity in myself and those around me.

Fear makes us feel our humanity.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives. Mankind's greatest gift, also its greatest curse, is that we have free choice. We can make our choices built from love or from fear.

It is a hidden fear that somehow, if they are only given a chance, women will suddenly do as they have been done by.

Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.

Fear is the parent of cruelty.

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

It is because I believe that it is in the power of such nations to lead the world back into the paths of peace that I propose to devote myself to explaining what, in my opinion, can and should be done to banish the fear of war that hangs so heavily over the world.

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.