Fear Quotes

The fear of death often proves mortal, and sets people on methods to save their Lives, which infallibly destroy them.

I think everyone shares a fear of failure - that you're only as good as your most recent collection. That's definitely a fear, but it's a fear that fuels me, that makes me want to work harder, that makes me take on more challenges.

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Love is a symbol of eternity. It wipes out all sense of time, destroying all memory of a beginning and all fear of an end.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

If I wanted to go be social I would. I don't have any fear of that. I don't feel like I'm a shy person at all.

I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.

The key to change... is to let go of fear.

What I think we fear is rapid, pronounced, and uncontrollable changes to ourselves, and because of this we have a form of personality inertia - something that resists rapid change.

I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.

The greatest fear that haunts this city is a suitcase bomb, nuclear or germ. Many people carry small gas masks. The masses here seem to be resigned to the inevitable, believing an attack of major proportions will happen.

I think that most writers who wait until they're inspired to write are just waiting for the fear to subside.

Courage is a peculiar kind of fear.

Extremists and populist movements are exploiting people's fear of those who are not like us. We can see the consequences in the form of terrorism and racially motivated violence.

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of night, of the other side of things.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful; perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

The roots of homophobia are fear. Fear and more fear.

A man who is not afraid is not aggressive, a man who has no sense of fear of any kind is really a free, a peaceful man.

Fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

I cannot give a single concert at which I do not play one piece after the other in an agony of terror because my memory threatens to fail me. This fear torments me for days beforehand.

He who does not fear death cares naught for threats.

Everyone has his faults which he continually repeats: neither fear nor shame can cure them.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.

It sometimes is just the fear of being misunderstood.

Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of "crackpot" than the stigma of conformity.

Live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart.

Fear is the highest fence.

Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.