Fear Quotes

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

Fear controls you.

Columbine was so frightening. And the media took off with it, like everything else, so it instilled more fear in people. You're looking around at school for kids like the ones who committed the shootings, and you feel wrong for doing that, you know?

I might be deceiving myself but I do not think that I do have an inordinate fear of death.

Fear is your greatest obstacle - so question your fear. If it does not serve your greatest life then do not make it your master.

I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world.

Too many people don't do things for fear of falling. You'll never get good unless you fall. Experiences and new accomplishments are feelings we should never lose.

I think it is important to ask ourselves as citizens, not as Democrats attacking the administration, but as citizens, whether a world power can really provide global leadership on the basis of fear and anxiety?

We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will think, afraid of what will be found out about us. But every time we tell a lie, the thing that we fear grows stronger.

I say let's go back to a truer use of the word 'freedom.' Let's start with President Franklin Roosevelt's Four Freedoms: freedom of speech and expression, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. I would add the freedom to bargain collectively. Those freedoms are under attack today.

None but a coward dares to boast that he has never known fear.

Government, which does not and did not grant us our rights, must not now seek to deny them by using fear as its justification.

Some men love truth so much that they seem to be in continual fear lest she should catch a cold on overexposure.

Great fear is concealed under daring.

If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

It was such a relief. I lived in fear of being found out. Now it's given me a whole new mission in life.

Defeat the fear of death and you welcome the death of fear.

Basically, there are two paths you can walk: faith or fear. It's impossible to simultaneously trust God and not trust God.

I have been in Congress for more than a half century. I have lived through times of fear and times of hope. Of despair and of achievement. I have seen our government at its best, but today I fear that we see our government at its worst.

Satirists gain the applause of others through fear, not through love.

The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

I fear some of our leaders today have lost the courage to stand up. What we have now are politicians. They won't offer real plans, and only stand up when they want to blame someone else.

The Federal Government is exploiting public fear to redefine the relationship between the rulers and the American people.

"Freedom from fear" could be said to sum up the whole philosophy of human rights.

He has not learned the first lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.

You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.