Fear Quotes

Fear can be conquered. I became a better person and a better football player when I learned that lesson.

The reflection of the flame in the glass seems to be touching the hand. And you feel the helpless fear of these dismembered parts. This sort of thing can hardly be visualized at the script stage.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

I actually had an experience where I thought somebody was breaking into my house. That's got to be the most terrified I've ever been in my life. I don't know if that's saying much. The fear, especially as a female in a house by yourself, was horrible.

The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

I'll think, If this is his first punch, how are the others gonna feel? That's the only fear I have for myself.

One way of watering down the effects of violence is to approach it in a more lighthearted way. I don't mean to say that you laugh when somebody has their arm sawn off, but you can diffuse fear with humour.

Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members.

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

The thing we fear we bring to pass.

The fear really hits you. That's what you feel first. And then it's the anger and frustration. Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself.

Dictators and oppressors should continue to fear me because I will be here for a long time.

Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.

It was impossible to reason with a negro-that the only way to keep him in his place was to keep him under fear.

When I'm acting, I'm two beings. There's the one monitoring the distance between myself and the camera, making sure I hit my marks, and there is the one driven by this inner fire, this delicious fear.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

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.