Fear Quotes

I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about.

For me it's important to be in balance. To not let fear get in the way of things, to not worry so much about protecting yourself all the time.

I go through insanity before a show. It's not really a process but it's like absolute mortal fear.

The country is not a democratic state. Therefore we fear that they might carry a recorder in their pocket or there may be bugs in the walls, and you cannot be absolutely sure that you get a straight testimony.

It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion.

My biggest fear ever is to be involved in a plane crash, so when that happened... well, I'm just thankful to be alive. I'm just grateful to be here at all.

Today's youth cannot miss something they have never known, but I fear that there are no current fictional characters whose impact and influence will last with such abiding affection into their 'sore and yellow' as this splendid man's creations have in mine!

There is no nation so powerful, as the one that obeys its laws not from principals of fear or reason, but from passion.

A dark and terrible side of this sense of community of interests is the fear of a horrible common destiny which in these days of atomic weapons darkens men's minds all around the globe.

In time we hate that which we often fear.

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.

Fear prophets and those prepared to die for the truth, for as a rule they make many others die with them, often before them, at times instead of them.

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.

But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

You can't underestimate the power of fear.

You know, Stephen says, in the movies no one ever goes to the bathroom. They shave, they brush their teeth. He goes right at this sort of funny taboo we have about the bathroom, and he turned it into this nightmare, you know, your worst fear of what's in there.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

Writing is a form of therapy; sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write, compose or paint can manage to escape the madness, melancholia, the panic and fear which is inherent in a human situation.

There is nothing that fear and hope does not permit men to do.

I saw my city gripped by fear. Because of violent acts committed by illegal aliens, my residents were afraid to shop - or even drive - on certain streets.

In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure.

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed.

The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers.

There is a lot of hype and fear about this much-talked-about prospect of designer babies.

There are times when fear is good. It must keep its watchful place at the heart's controls.

I have no doubt that given a real choice, the vast majority of Muslims and Arabs, like everyone else will choose a free society over a fear society.

Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted.

The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.